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Welcome to ThoughtLeaders4 Disputes
A specialist community connecting private practice lawyers, barristers and industry experts involved in complex, cross-border commercial litigation and international arbitration. Membership is free for practitioners so join below.

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Join a community of experts, referrers and peers
Attend events in all formats
Interact using our digital Knowledge Hub
Learn and share expertise through the Community Magazine
Grow your network and business
Build relationships through a facilitated Membership directory

ONE COMMUNITY - 2 SPECIALIST SECTORS

Commercial Litigation
International Arbitration

KEY BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP:

Share, Learn and Benchmark

By collaborating with the best in business, the Community delivers exclusive insights, technical knowledge and solutions, helping our Members stay ahead of the game.

Make an Impact and Position Yourself as a Leader

By ensuring seamless and uninterrupted visibility, we help our Members to raise and promote their personal and organisational profiles.

Generate New Business

By bringing together global Thought Leaders from a wide array of jurisdictions we create access to an influential audience, leading to potential cross reference work for our Members.

VIRTUAL OPPORTUNITIES:

TL4321
3 speakers, 2 questions, 1 mic: Short technical updates of 10-30 minutes

QuickFIRE
1 session, multiple speakers with live Q&A: Interactive session of 30-60 minutes

Virtual Conference
Multiple sessions & speakers, panel sessions & live Q&A : Technical & interactive from 60-120 minutes

Targeted at professionals whose practice encompasses or touches Disputes. Community members will include:

Who should join?

Solicitors

Barristers

Offshore Practitioners

Forensic Accountants

Investigators

Insolvency Practitioners

In-House Counsel from Banks & Multinationals

Judges, Arbitrators & Mediators

Expert Witnesses

Legal Communication Agencies & Legal PR

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Upcoming Events

Virtual

28 Apr 2021

I’m A Litigant … Get Me Out of Here!

Join us for a practical and interactive session where a panel of experts on litigation and settlement share their expertise on key issues including getting yourself in the best position before exploring settlement, approaching the other side without giving an impression of weakness, assessing the settlement value of a claim, is horse trading the only way to arrive at an agreed number, creative ways to find a settlement when the numbers don’t work and the key issues to consider before signing the settlement agreement.

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Virtual

13 May 2021

LIDW21 Member-Hosted Event: How to Find the Right Partner in a Foreign Jurisdiction

Cross-border litigation often requires cooperation from firms in multiple jurisdictions. How can you ensure that you choose a firm with the right expertise that can deliver a seamlessservice to your client?

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Virtual

14 May 2021

LIDW21 Member-Hosted Event: Sanctions and Disputes

A presentation and discussion on current issues in the world of economic sanctions with particular emphasis on the effect of sanctions on legal rights and proceedings to enforce them

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Virtual

19 May 2021

To Hear or Not to Hear, That is the Question – Challenging Jurisdiction and Service: The Defendant’s Toolkit

TL4 Disputes together with PCB Byrne are delighted to bring you the first of an innovative new series which will take you on a tour through the lifecycle of a dispute from the principal vantage point of the defendant’s lawyer.

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Virtual

08 Jun 2021

UK Class Actions – “Big Bang” or False Start?

ThoughtLeaders4 and BRG invite you to join us on for the first in a series of discussions on the latest developments in the UK and European class action regimes.

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FIRE Magazine - Issue 3, Year in Review - NOW AVAILABLE

ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE would like to invite our readers to reflect on the tumultuous year that has been 2020. Guest edited by Mary Young, Partner at Kingsley Napley and chair of our Year in Review event on 4th December 2020, our Year in Review authors asses the hot topics of the year.

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Articles

Commercial Court cracks down on crypto-fraudsters (if it can find them)

In the first initial coin offering 'ICO' fraud case before the Commercial Court, Ion Science Limited & Duncan Johns v Persons Unknown & Ors, the court granted permission to serve disclosure orders on two cryptocurrency exchanges through which the claimants' stolen bitcoin had been traced, granted a world-wide freezing order against persons unknown, and gave ground-breaking guidance on the lex situs of crypto-assets...

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Supreme Court places limits on SFO’s extraterritorial reach: R (on the application of KBR, Inc) (Appellant) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office (Respondent) [2021] UKSC 2

On 5 February 2021, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, held that section 2(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (“the 1987 Act”) does not confer a unilateral power on the Serious Fraud Office (“the SFO”) to demand documents from overseas entities under the threat of criminal sanction, and the request for evidence should have been handled through international mutual legal assistance channels. The Supreme Court confirmed that in applying the rules of statutory interpretation, the UK Parliament could not have intended for the SFO to use Section 2(3) notices extraterritorially and a test based on "sufficient connection" had no basis in the 1987 Act...

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Misrepresentation requires ‘active appreciation’—assumption is not enough (Leeds City Council and others v Barclays)

The court has struck out fraudulent misrepresentation claims brought by Leeds City Council and others against Barclays in connection with the ‘LIBOR rigging affair of 2012’.

In Leeds City Council and others v Barclays Bank plc and another [2021] EWHC 363 (Comm), the court held that the lack of awareness (in the sense of ‘active appreciation’) of any representation regarding LIBOR was fatal to the claim. In a decision likely to be of significant comfort to banks, the court concluded that ‘to say that the key people assumed that LIBOR would be set in a straightforward and proper manner’ is simply not enough. The court also briefly considered (although the claims had already been found to have no prospect of success) Barclays’ alternative ground for strike out on affirmation. It held that the disputed questions of fact regarding the councils’ knowledge of their rights would have had to be resolved at trial. The case on affirmation would not have been suitable for summary determination...

Articles

Jurisdiction Jumble

This bulletin is of interest to those clients currently considering the commencement of English High Court proceedings, or who have recently had such proceedings served on them. In this context the UK’s EU withdrawal agreement gives rise to some significant uncertainty, including both opportunities and threats, during what should be an interim jurisdictional regime pending the EU’s decision whether to allow the UK to accede to the Lugano Convention...

Articles

Use but not abuse – think laterally before using material collaterally

In disputes, information is often the key to success. However, if the key is used in the wrong door, then that very same information can lead to problems for the litigant and its lawyers. This has been reflected by an increasing number of cases addressing the restrictions on how information and documentation can be used, and how these restrictions can be navigated. This article explores a number of recent scenarios that have arisen in this regard...

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Key issues for breach of warranty claims and the potential impact of Covid-19

In the early part of 2020, Covid-19 entered all of our personal and professional lives and substantially changed the world (hopefully temporarily) in almost every respect. In the business world, it caused significant and almost unprecedented disruption to the way that businesses operate and to their turnover and profitability. At that time, some businesses were in the position where they had either recently completed the purchase of another business (whether by share or asset purchase) or were shortly due to complete such a purchase. Those share or asset purchases may have been based on assumptions, forecasts and/or valuations over which there may now be a question mark...

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Anita Arthur joins TL4 as Community Director for Disputes - exciting new community coming soon

ThoughtLeaders4 is delighted to announce that Anita Arthur has joined as Director for our new DISPUTES community that will be launching shortly.

Anita brings huge experience within the industry and a strong track record of launching and growing market leading events over the last 15 years within disputes, sanctions, anti-corruption, fraud & asset recovery and private equity, among others.

What we say

What our members say

"From the first meeting we had with ThoughtLeaders4 we really like the vision. The vision is to produce a practical community of practitioners that are looking out for each other, who were sharing thought leadership and are going to help each other"

Adam Garside - BRG

"I have been impressed by the way in which ThoughtLeaders4 have adapted to the changes brought by the Pandemic and, in particular, by their regular programme of well-paced seminars delivered virtually.
When I heard that they were establishing a Disputes Community to complement their other communities, I was very keen for the firm to come on board as a Community Partner".

Sue Millar - Stephenson Harwood

"Given the resounding success of our partnership for the FIRE community, we had no hesitation in extending our collaboration to the exciting new Disputes Community. TL4 have made staggering inroads into the market in a short space of time, and there is a real buzz about what the future has in store."

Jon Felce - PCB Litigation

“ThoughtLeaders4 adapted brilliantly to virtual networking and have been a saviour during these times when we are all missing each other. Having had such a good experience over the past year we had no hesitation in signing up as a Community Partner for the new Disputes community”

Andy McGregor - RPC

“We are delighted to become a partner of the new Dispute Resolution Community at ThoughtLeaders4. Innovation is key for us at Radcliffe Chambers and so we admire TL4’s original and engaging approach and how seamlessly they adapted to an online world at the onset of the pandemic. We look forward to working with them on all things CDR and international arbitration-related as well as continuing our involvement in their FIRE and Private Client communities.”

Shantanu Majumdar - Radcliffe Chambers

"ThoughtLeaders4 has excelled in putting together a diverse set of digital events over the last year, and following our productive involvement with FIRE, we look forward to being part of a wider set of discussions that affect the broader Disputes Community.”

Nikos Asimakopoulos - Alaco