Banking Litigation
Our Banking Litigation team, part of our Banking & Finance Group, acts for banks and other lenders on a wide range of disputes.
Our Banking Litigation team, part of our Banking & Finance Group, acts for banks and other lenders on a wide range of disputes. We work closely with our lender clients and their in house counsel to provide a professional and dynamic service, intended to maintain our strong track record of achieving results in accordance with our clients' business and reputational objectives, at reasonable and proportionate cost.
We are recommended by The Legal 500 2011 and by Chambers UK 2012, as are our individual Partners. Chambers UK 2012 rates us nationally for both client service and commercial awareness.
We work in close conjunction with our volume Recoveries team when work can sensibly be commoditised and also with Partners and colleagues in our Asset Finance, Banking and Corporate and Personal Insolvency practice areas, to provide full support to our lender clients.
Our Banking Litigation services include:
- The recovery of unsecured and secured debt
- Guarantee claims
- Defended mortgage repossession work; for home purchase, buy to let and business lending
- LPA Receivership
- Title defects
- Subrogation
- Mortgage fraud
- Land Registry Adjudication
- Professional negligence claims, usually against solicitors and valuers, but we also act for banks in defending over/negligent valuation actions
- Compensation Fund applications
- Operational loss work, including litigation regarding terms and conditions, breach of mandate, conversion, fraud and payment by mistake claims
- Disputes about financial products
