Drawing on the firm’s international network, Linklaters LLP handles national and cross-border lawsuits, arbitrations, investigations, and criminal proceedings. It represents a diverse roster of multinational companies, governments and business leaders. In Washington DC, Adam Lurie leads the litigation, arbitration and investigations team and is regularly called upon by corporations, financial institutions, and foreign governments, while Richard Smith represents corporate entities, executives and employees. James Warnot focuses on the financial services sector and is based in New York alongside Patrick Ashby, who represents clients before trial and appellate courts and state, federal, and foreign regulators.
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Kernmandanten

  • Alto Maipo
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Banque Havilland
  • Corebridge Financial
  • Crédit Suisse
  • GLAS Trust Company LLC
  • Kelkoo Group
  • Mike Perfetto
  • NatWest Bank
  • Nespresso

Highlight-Mandate

  • Represented Société Générale and SG Americas Securities, LLC in multiple lawsuits pending in the Southern District of New York relating to allegations that the defendants conspired to fix the prices of foreign exchange instruments in the global foreign exchange market through manipulating FX benchmarks rates and widening bid-ask spreads.
  • Representing State Street Corporation and State Street Bank and Trust Company in connection with a European Commission investigation into allegations of manipulation of the European government bond market, and in connection with a parallel putative class action litigation alleging cartel/Shearman Act violations in the Southern District of New York (In re European Government Bonds Antitrust Litigation, 1:19-cv-02601 (S.D.N.Y.)).
  • Representing the NatWest entities in connection with a putative class action brought in the District of New Mexico alleging a 15-year conspiracy among NatWest and nine other major bank group liquidity providers, as well as non-dealer defendants, to manipulate the credit default swap (CDS) auction price used to value all CDS contracts market-wide at settlement.

Anwält*innen

Praxisleitung

Adam Lurie

Weitere Kernanwält*innen

Richard Smith; James Warnot; Patrick Ashby; Douglas Tween