Professional Negligence

Contentious matters and disputes involving lawyers, accountants and other professionals.

Professional Negligence

Overview

Professional liability matters and claims are complex, technical and often highly sensitive. We have the experience and expertise to offer exceptional advice and representation in this field.

We offer clients expert guidance in the most challenging professional negligence matters involving lawyers, accountants and other professionals.  Our experience of acting for both claimants and defendants, in some of the most complex and high value claims involving professionals, together with our ability to leverage our market-leading regulatory, investigations and advisory practices, means that we are able to offer full-service advice and unique insight to clients.

Selected experience includes:

Advising Hewlett Packard Enterprise in relation to fraud and professional negligence claims amounting to US $5bn arising out of the US $11bn acquisition of Autonomy Corporation plc in 2011.

Advising an investment business on allegations of negligence in relation to the design, promotion and operation of certain investment schemes.

Acting for a financial services provider in relation to a claim against its former solicitors in respect of negligent advice provided in the context of a corporate acquisition and related litigation.

Advising the founder of Matalan in professional negligence claims against a leading UK accounting and consultancy firm.

Advising a London based asset manager in a claim against its former lawyers, arising out of a corporate transaction.

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