Working closely with book building specialists and litigation funders, Fladgate LLP‘s group litigation practice has an ’impressive track record across a wide range of group litigation, spanning a wide range of sectors and legal issues’. A range of high-net-worth individuals, corporates, and SMEs, spanning a wide range of sectors, turn to the team for its expertise. The practice is headed up by the ‘tenacious and resourceful litigator’ John Evans, who is regarded by another client as ’one of the best when it comes to group litigation’. The team of ‘excellent and commercially highly astute lawyers’ also notably includes Garbhan Shanks, Leigh Callaway, and Nadia Osborne.
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‘John Evans is a tenacious and resourceful litigator. A safe pair of hands in any group action. Steve Mash is absolutely incredible. A top-class litigator with brilliant legal insights and strategic thinking.’
‘The team is very well led by John Evans and as a team has real depth of experience. They are also one of the fastest-growing teams in the firm and indeed in London, as it goes from strength to strength. We have seen an increase in the number of enquiries we are seeing from this team and can clearly see they are now competing with some of the leading firms in group litigation.’
Key clients
- SearchFlow Ltd. & Ors
- A group of 905 claimants in High Court proceedings against Clydesdale Bank and National Australia Bank
Work highlights
Represented over 100 English and Welsh personal search companies in a complex group litigation claim before the High Court to recover payments made to the ten water and sewerage utility companies in England and Wales for access to and/or the provision of copies of environmental information held by the Defendants.
Practice head
John Evans
Other key lawyers
Garbhan Shanks; Leigh Callaway; Nadia Osborne; Steven Mash