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We understand the enormous pressure companies experience when faced with mass actions, and we can support you with everything from horizon scanning to reputation management, from working at scale to creative problem-solving.
Few firms can match our combination of specialist multi-disciplinary skills, efficient processes, litigation strategy and legal technical excellence. As well as our expert team of defence litigators we also have a specialist team who implement and design collective redress schemes.
We have legal specialists in a wide range of policy areas, including financial services, product liability, consumer law, competition law, data protection, climate and environmental, and investment losses.
Our advisers act on domestic and international projects of all shapes and sizes, working with many of the leading names across this diverse sector. Browse our experience below, or use the filters to look-up recent work in particular geographies and legal disciplines.
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Representing a defendant in the Second Wave Trucks follow on damages claims before the CAT. These coordinated proceedings arise from the EU Commission’s infringement decision against truck manufacturers and form part of wider EU litigation across multiple jurisdictions. The UK claims are case managed together and are expected to conclude in a 12 week trial scheduled for autumn 2026.
Acting for major banks, in defending substantial portfolios of county court claims seeking redress under the Consumer Credit Act arising from payment protection insurance sales. We have been instructed on more than 3,000 claims. Although individual claim values are modest, the cumulative volume creates complex challenges.
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Advising and representing investors in Wirecard securities on damage claims in connection with the circumstances that led to the insolvency of Wirecard AG. The proceedings are backed by a third party litigation funder.
Advised Google on Richard Lloyd v Google, a landmark case in the emerging field of data protection class actions and a resounding success for Google and other potential defendants to such claims. The case, involving 5 million people, relates to the setting of cookies, used for targeted advertising, on Apple's iPhone Safari browser. The dispute concerns claims valued at around £3 billion.
Advising a major German telecommunications company on a German mass litigation regarding an alleged violation of GDPR following the handover of customer data to a German credit scoring agency.
Advised a publicly traded medical device company on the defence of a number of product liability claims (over 50 actions) against a medical device manufacturer seeking damages arising from the alleged defects in metal on metal hip components. The claims have been raised in Scotland alleging defects under the Consumer Protection Act and at common law.
Advised a medical device manufacturer on the defence of claims alleging defect and incorrect marketing of medical devices. A large number of claimants have raised claims against medical in-vitro mesh products alleging injury and ongoing disability in consequence of alleged defect in the medical products. The issue was subject also to Parliamentary hearings and inquiry.
Advising The Rugby Football League on two cases one of which involves a mass action issue around the growing challenge of concussion litigation.
Advised a major bank on a claim by 27 claimants for dishonest assistance and for compensation under section 213 of the Insolvency Act 1986 for fraudulent trading. The claimants allege the bank dishonestly participated in transactions involving the sale and purchase of European Union Allowances that resulted in the claimant companies incurring VAT liabilities that they were unable to pay.
Advised and supported a manufacturing client through an investigation involving Environmental Health, HSE, Police Scotland and the NHS on a legionella outbreak where the client’s site was considered a potential source of the outbreak. This included working with the client in the immediate incident response, throughout the HSE investigation, and subsequent court proceedings.
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With over 490 partners and 3000 people around the world, we are well-placed to support you across a full range of legal and advisory services.
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EmailJohanna advises in (cross-border) litigation proceedings with a focus on the financial services and automotive sector. She leads the firm’s global Mass Actions Powerhouse – the international working group specializing in the defence against class, mass and collective actions.
Global Sector Head for Technology, Science and Industry
EmailDavid is our Sector Head for Technology, Science and Industry and leads our global offering to clients in these sectors. He is recognised as a market leader in technology and privacy litigation, having acted in some of the most complex and groundbreaking litigation in the tech space.
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EmailHayley is a Partner who qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte and has specialised in forensic accounting since 2000 also working at Ernst & Young.
Partner, Head of Office, Dublin
EmailLisa is an experienced commercial litigator with expertise in contractual disputes, financial services disputes, and, judicial reviews against public bodies. Lisa regularly advises on regulatory investigations. Lisa leads the Litigation, Regulatory and Tax team in Ireland.
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EmailJonathan is a financial services specialist, focusing on investigating and managing systemic challenges. Jonathan devises strategies and solutions which reflect commercial drivers, operational preferences and stakeholder objectives – and which reduce regulatory scrutiny. Jonathan’s team consist of barristers, ex-regulators and ombudsmen.
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EmailEmily is an experienced litigator with particular expertise in complex data privacy, media disputes and class action litigation, both in the data privacy and competition spheres.
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EmailLaura specialises in regulatory enforcement and advises clients in a range of sectors dealing with compliance issues ranging from data and cyber breaches, internal fraud, corporate crime and health & safety.
Partner, Co-head of Litigation, Regulatory & Tax
EmailJoanne leads the contentious insolvency team in Scotland and advises both insolvency practitioners and corporates on all aspects of distressed debt and recoveries.
Orbital has built specific workflows for Scottish commercial real estate work, built around Scots Law and Scottish real estate practice
Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised Penta Real Estate on its investment into a landmark £230 million-plus joint venture with Staycity Group and advised the joint venture on the financing arrangements for the development, which will deliver a 350-room Wilde aparthotel in the heart of London's Farringdon district.
Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised manufacturing companies PROXMUS and Promus on the sale of their businesses to CGH Innovation, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of steel tanks and a portfolio company of H.I.G. Capital, a global private equity firm headquartered in Miami.
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