Dispute resolution
Norton Rose Fulbright boasts a ‘really excellent, dynamic team’ with experience advising on complex contractual disputes, M&A disputes, and intricate shareholder disputes for a large number of blue-chip clients, regularly working closely with other offices of the firm to act on multijurisdictional cases. Patrick Bourke and Ruth Cowley head the team of ’excellent lawyers at the top of their game’, which notably includes the ‘smart, charming, and judicious’ Antony Corsi. Holly Stebbing is ’clever, analytical, and hardworking’, while Zayba Drabu has an extensive practice focusing on transport-related disputes.
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‘Holly Stebbing is clever, analytical, and hard working, but with a strong focus on achieving a good commercial outcome for her clients. She is realistic in her assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of a client's case, and good at advancing the positive points.'
‘Top class litigation expertise.'
'Antony is smart, charming, and judicious; a lovely man and a very good lawyer indeed.'‘A really excellent dynamic team.’
‘Holly Stebbing - unflappable, very commercial and a good strategist.’
‘Excellent lawyers - top of their game.’
Key clients
- HSBC Bank PLC Orange Liberty Industries France Pte Limited and Liberty France Aluminium HoldCo Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. Ltd ExxonMobil (subsidiary: Esso Exploration and Production UK Limited) Takeda HSBC Bank PLC Orange Liberty Industries France Pte Limited and Liberty France Aluminium HoldCo Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. Ltd ExxonMobil (subsidiary: Esso Exploration and Production UK Limited) Takeda
Work highlights
Acted for HSBC in successfully defending two related complex billion pound and hundred-million-pound group action fraud claims.
Acted for Orange SA in its defence of claims brought by the Administrators of Phones4U which were issued in December 2018.
Ated for Liberty Industries on a dispute over a strategically important industrial asset.