Litigation

Business involves taking risks. Your choice of litigation and dispute resolution lawyers should not.

At Squared, our lawyers draw upon their extensive experience, trusted judgment and insight to develop a customized strategy—always with your specific business objectives at top of mind. Together, we tackle challenges efficiently and effectively so that you can move ahead.

Our dispute resolution lawyers employ the most appropriate tools and strategies for each stage of the process and each unique situation. Whether through timely use of innovative alternative dispute resolution techniques or skillful and persuasive advocacy in the courtroom, you can count on our lawyers to maximize your prospects for a successful outcome. We also work with you to assess and manage your risks in relation to the legal costs of the dispute and to seek to minimize the likelihood of future litigation.

Whether your dispute has strategic, reputational or financial importance and whatever the subject matter, your success is our priority.

OUR EXPERTISE INCLUDES

• ADR & Mediation
• Contract
• Company & Commercial
• Contentious Probate
• Harassment
• Debt Recovery & Enforcement
• International
• Property
• Professional Negligence

Regardless of the matter under dispute, it is crucial to seek advice at an early stage of a dispute from a law firm with a successful track record in litigation and alternative dispute resolution.

EXPERIENCE

• 51 community interest companies as the second to fifty-second interested parties community interest companies: 
  Successfully advising in the high-profile Health Lottery proceedings in High Court. Camelot, the operator of the National Lottery, had tried to block The Health Lottery from operating in its current form by applying for permission to bring a claim for judicial review of the Gambling Commission’s decision to grant operating licenses to the Health Lottery. The High Court found that The Health Lottery, which manages and operates 51 separate community interest companies across the UK, is basically lawful and that multiple society lotteries are not prohibited by the Gambling Act 2005.
  
• Banque Palatine: 
  Representing the defendant in a lawsuit against Banque Delubac arising out of the termination of an IPO mandate.
  
• BP: 
  Advising in connection with class action settlements relating to the Deep Water Horizon oil spill litigation and in connection with the handling of claims related to an off-specification fuel event.
  
• Covec: 
  Representing in numerous disputes with the State Treasury, subcontractors and other entities–in a case related to construction of a stretch of the A2 Berlin-Warsaw motorway. Having terminated a motorway construction contract with the State Treasury, Covec is engaged in multi-party litigation including several separate cases with the State Treasury and subcontractors. Transaction value: €200 million.
  
• Cross-border anti-corruption investigation: 
  Represented Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA, a global health care/medical device company with operations in more than 150 countries, in connection with parallel SEC and the DOJ investigations into multiple alleged violations of the FCPA in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America. Working with our locally based practitioners, our global team helped the client respond to this cross-border investigation and implement new global anti-corruption policies and procedures. The Squared team ultimately resolved the US criminal inquiry through a non-prosecution agreement with the DOJ and a regulatory order by the SEC.
  
• First American Financial Corporation: 
  Achieving complete victory for our long-time client (subsidiary First American Home Buyers Protection Corporation) in the class action, when the court granted First American’s motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s case with prejudice and refused to allow the plaintiffs to amend their Fair Housing Act, Fair Employment and Housing Act, or Unfair Competition Law claims. Case made new law in several important areas for title insurers. The case was in federal district court in California.
  
• GlaxoSmithKline (GSK): 
  Represented GlaxoSmithKline plc in qui tam whistleblower litigation, alleging violations of the US False Claims Act in connection with the drug Paxil, and seeking billions of dollars in damages. Our team convinced the court, at an early stage in the litigation, to dismiss the whistleblower’s case in its entirety with prejudice and without an opportunity to amend. Our team convinced not only the court, but also the US Department of Justice, to support our position in seeking dismissal.
  
• Important pharmaceutical company: 
  Representing before the Commercial Court of Nanterre, in a litigation proceeding initiated by another pharmaceutical company in relation to the consequences and settlement terms of the termination of a longstanding quasi-worldwide contract for the distribution of the other pharmaceutical company’s products; the dispute consists of alleged breaches and requests for forced production of documents; the alleged damages are claimed to be up to €20 million.

AWARDS AND ACCOLADES

• Best Law Firms, Alternative Dispute Resolution Law Firm of the Year, Best Lawyers, 2020
• Chambers United States Nationwide: Litigation: General Commercial, Chambers and Partners, 2021