Latham & Watkins is a ‘truly Premier League outfit able to handle effortlessly the largest and most complicated banking disputes’, with leading expertise spanning complex sanctions work, group actions, and consumer finance. The team leverages its impressive breadth to act for leading banks and financial institutions, and is ’quality from top to bottom’. Andrea Monks is ‘the best banking litigator in the City of London’, and has ’unparalleled knowledge of the banking sector, banking litigation and strategic genius’. Martin Davies has expertise in class actions, with a practice acting for both claimants and defendants, while Nell Perks is ‘highly commercial’, ’tactically astute’, and is adept at advising financial institutions on ESG litigation risk, drawing on extensive regulatory expertise. Oliver Middleton is a class action expert, and skilled at acting on large-scale project finance disputes, as well as structured finance and funds litigation. Alex Cox is noted.
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‘Quality from top to bottom, a truly Premier League outfit able to handle effortlessly the largest and most complicated banking disputes.’
‘Nell Perks is fantastic: incredibly bright; highly commercial; tactically astute; client-friendly and a pleasure to work with - the complete package.’
‘A premier high-end banking litigation firm.'
‘The team is rightly built around the astonishingly brilliant Andrea Monks, with her unparalleled knowledge of the banking sector, banking litigation and strategic genius. The best banking litigator in the City of London.’
Key clients
- UniCredit Bank
- Genesis Digital Assets Limited
Work highlights
Representing UniCredit Bank GmbH in securing from the UK Supreme Court a mandatory anti-suit injunction requiring a Gazprom joint venture to discontinue proceedings before the Russian courts seeking recovery of €448 million under a series of English law-governed bonds that provided for ICC arbitration in Paris.
Representing a major international bank headquartered in the UK in relation to an opt-out class action in the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT). The claims allege that the conduct of our client (and other banks) in manipulating the FX markets caused members of the class to suffer loss.
Acting for a major international bank headquartered in the UK in a group claim by more than 100 claimants under ss.90 and 90A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (“FSMA”).
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Practice head
Andrea Monks
Other key lawyers
Martin Davies; Nell Perks; Oliver Middleton; Alex Cox