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Brown Rudnick LLP

Brown Rudnick LLP

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England - London • Dispute resolution

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Commercial litigation: premium

Brown Rudnick LLP boasts a ‘top-flight commercial litigation team’, made up of ’fantastic lawyers’. Members of the practice have expertise acting against leading banks, particularly on complex injunctions and high-value asset recoveries. An ‘absolute star and a class act,’ Neill Shrimpton leads the team with considerable international litigation expertise, including fraud expert Jane Colston. Other key figures include Robin Pickworth, a ’tenacious, thorough, and highly commercial lawyer’.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Robin Pickworth's integrity, intelligence, experience & empathy have been hugely important in our working relationship.’

  • ‘Neill Shrimpton is an absolute star and a class act.’

  • ‘Fantastic team. Dedicated and talented lawyers.’

  • ‘Robin Pickworth - tenacious, thorough, and highly commercial lawyer. Excellent with clients and gets excellent results for them.’

  • ‘Top-flight commercial litigation team doing some of the biggest cases in the City. They are nimble, generally conflict-free free and tend to be partner-led.’

  • ‘Neil Shrimpton is an outstanding lawyer with years of expertise and now heads up a team of capable partners and associates. Tom McDonnell is a first-class associate and is partnership material in the making.’

Key clients

  • Caroline Black
  • Weavabel Group Limited
  • Thomas Cole
  • Recovery Partners G.P. Limited and Revoker LLP
  • LetterOne Treasury Services
  • Purple Surgical Holdings Limited
  • Mr. Angel Alberto Buenano Gonzalez
  • GB News

Work highlights

Acting for Caroline Black, one of the defendants in this matter, and former equity partner at Dechert. The proceedings arise out of an investigation carried out by Dechert LLP into serious wrongdoing and misappropriation of public assets alleged to have been committed by (amongst others) the claimant in Ras Al Khaimah.
Acting for the Claimants in this matter which concerns the unlawful diversion of a business opportunity to provide services to members of the surviving family of the deceased Georgian billionaire Arkadi Patarkatsishvili, whose estate came under attack in the period following his unexpected death in 2008 from various individuals including Boris Berezovsky and Joseph Kay and from the Georgian government.
Advised GB News on its successful judicial review of TV regulator’s Ofcom’s decisions that two shows hosted by Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg breached the broadcasting Code.
Practice head

Neill Shrimpton; Jane Colston

Other key lawyers

Robin Pickworth