10x Growth In The UK Litigation Market: Priming An Industry For Scale
22 Apr 2024
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Highlights
The mass action space in the litigation market is maturing at a rapid pace in the UK. We're set to experience 10x growth in cases, claimants, settlement values and funding in the coming 24 months. What do we need to do as an industry to get ready?
Across the collective redress market, we’re seeing unprecedented growth across the number of cases, cohorts of claimants, the value of settlements and the funding that underpins this era of the mega-group action. Any business or industry that goes through this sort of growth has work to do to prime operating models to be ready to scale. It's a great problem to have, but one that requires us to lean in.
Key Discussion Topics:
- In an ecosystem where we are all about to 10x our operations, are we ready?
- What have we already put in place to anticipate the future volumes?
- What challenges do we need to lean into now to overcome gaps in the operating model?
- And what potential hurdles are we scanning on the horizon that we’ll need to navigate in the build-up to the forthcoming mega-settlements?
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Shieldpay
Claire Van der Zant is Director of Strategic Partnerships at Shieldpay, responsible for developing relationships with financial institutions, legal firms and technology businesses to advance and innovate high-value payment solutions for clients globally.
Shieldpay
Assistant Portfolio Manager
Orchard Global
Orchard Global
Partner
Fox Williams (UK)
Andrew has been at the forefront of developing securities litigation in the UK since 2014, identifying potential recovery opportunities for shareholders in UK public companies.
Andrew drove the launch of the UK’s first such claim, the high-profile case against Tesco PLC for a large group of institutional investors, following Tesco’s admission of a profit overstatement in late 2014 (at his previous firm, Stewarts). That case received widespread press coverage until it settled successfully in 2020, after he joined Fox Williams, where he then launched a second securities litigation claim against Tesco arising out of the same facts, for a larger group of institutional investors, which settled successfully in September 2021.
Andrew is currently leading Fox Williams’ second (his third) major securities litigation case against Glencore PLC, for more than 200 institutional investors, arising out of the coordinated global settlement by Glencore in 2022 of an array of investigations brought against it and its group companies by the US DoJ, the UK SFO and other agencies, which has so far seen t pay more than £1billion in penalties, for admitted bribery and corruption on a global scale.
Together with new Fox Williams’ partner, Matthew Reach, Andrew spearheaded the building and launch of the firm’s third (his fourth) securities litigation claim against Petrofac Limited, for more than 70 institutional investors, in May 2023. This latest case arises out of the guilty pleas entered by Petrofac to seven counts of breach of the UK’s Bribery Act in October 2021, for Petrofac’s bribery and corruption over a sustained period of many years from October 2011.
Andrew is dual-qualified in the UK and Australia, having worked at global law firm Baker McKenzie in Sydney before relocating to London in 2012.
Fox Williams (UK)
Founder & CEO
Case Pilots
Case Pilots
Agenda
Speakers:
Claire Van der Zant - Director of Strategic Partnerships - Shieldpay
Speakers:
Claire Van der Zant - Director of Strategic Partnerships - Shieldpay
Rosie Murray - Assistant Portfolio Manager - Orchard Global
Andrew Hill - Partner - Fox Williams (UK)
Clare Ducksbury - Founder & CEO - Case Pilots
Speakers:
Claire Van der Zant - Director of Strategic Partnerships - Shieldpay
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