Market-leading practice specialising in defending companies and individuals in class actions and group litigation around the world.
Clifford Chance's global team of litigators has extensive experience across the full spectrum of group litigation, including securities and shareholder litigation, financial reporting claims, claims arising from data breaches and data misuse, anti-trust disputes, climate change litigation and consumer claims.
We are regularly instructed to represent businesses in the most high-profile and reputationally significant cases, often involving issues of public, political and media interest, including matters following on from, or running parallel to, regulatory and criminal investigations. We are also experts in advising directors and senior managers facing personal liability.
The third party litigation funding market is now a multi-billion dollar industry underpinning class actions and group litigation around the world. Litigation funding remains a cornerstone of the US litigation market and part of the mainstream in the UK and Australia, while recent years have seen its widespread emergence in Europe. We understand the impact of the proliferation of third party litigation funding, as well as after-the event insurance, on the strategy of defending multi-party claims.
We bring to bear our experience of high-stakes group litigation combined with our international expertise in key markets and products to deliver clients a business-focused defence team operating at the apex of the market. That team includes our UK and US-based forensic accountants and economists, who enable us to provide specialist expert advice in-house, which is aligned with, and complements, the legal strategy. That is one example of our commitment to driving efficiencies and value in the delivery of our client service.