Banking and financial disputes
An introduction and overview banking and financial disputes
Our dedicated banking and financial disputes lawyers act for companies, partnerships, LLPs, directors and individuals on a wide variety of banking and financial disputes.
Securing and maintaining access to appropriate banking and finance facilities, and ensuring that those facilities are properly administered and managed, is an essential part of any business and financial planning. This is an increasingly complex and evolving sector, where issues and disputes frequently arise.
Many of our clients have experience in dealing with disputes involving banking and financial regulatory law, but others may not have been engaged in this form of dispute before.
Whatever the size and nature of the dispute, you can be confident that it will be handled by a dedicated specialist.
As we’re not on any banks' panels for litigation we’re conflict free.
How our solicitors can help with banking and financial disputes
Key services offered
We have extensive experience in dealing with financial disputes and disputes involving financial regulatory framework issues so can tailor our expert advice for you. Our experience also means that you can be confident that your case will be dealt with by a specialist in the field and supervised by a partner with significant knowledge of the area.
Our team can provide advice on resolving a broad range of banking and financial disputes whether by litigation, negotiation or some form of alternative dispute resolution including mediation.
We can help you with:
- disputes between banks and counterparties
- the mis-selling of Interest Rate Hedging Products and derivatives
- claims relating to LIBOR manipulation
- claims against Independent Financial Advisors
- civil fraud and asset tracing
- challenges to liability under guarantees
- disputes relating to loan transactions (including mortgages)
- issues relating to the enforceability of security
- fin-tech and cryptocurrencies
- professional negligence claims relating to financial transactions
Why choose Russell-Cooke for banking and financial disputes?
About our dispute resolution team
We aim to help you avoid disputes, or resolve them at an early stage. Our service is tailored to the size and complexity of each case. We combine the provision of technical legal excellence with commercially focused and pragmatic advice to consistently achieve our clients’ objectives.
We can also draw on the wide range of experience across the firm, so that we’re able to seamlessly provide our clients with comprehensive advice on related issues including:
- commercial contracts and terms of business
- corporate restructuring and insolvency
- regulatory disputes and investigations
- real estate disputes
- professional negligence
- fraud and asset tracing
Russell-Cooke is a signatory to the Greener Litigation Pledge.
Industry expertise
Our growing contentious fin-tech work, including cryptocurrencies, cements our position as a ‘go-to’ firm for banking and financial disputes.
Testimonials and legal directory quotes
Here are some comments made about us.
Problem-solvers who are focused on getting the right outcome for the client in a timely and cost-effective manner. Their unflappable approach gives a much-needed peace of mind to very distressed clients.
Charging information
Charges are usually based on our hourly rates plus administrative charges and disbursements. We'll provide an initial estimate of your likely legal costs and will update this if your requirements or the circumstances of the work change.
We are prepared to consider alternative forms of funding in appropriate circumstances. We also have a flexible and innovative approach to litigation funding which enables us to offer you, in appropriate cases, a series of funding choices tailored to your particular requirements.
For further information please read our commercial litigation funding information page.
Get in touch
If you would like to speak with a member of the team you can contact our commercial litigation solicitors by email, by telephone on +44 (0)20 3826 7513 or +44 (0)20 3826 7516 or complete our enquiry form.
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