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Addleshaw Goddard offers a full range of legal services in all major jurisdictions and economic centres worldwide.

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Africa

Africa is a global economic bright spot, providing exceptional opportunities for growth, innovation and expansion. Our experience spans work in energy and resources to the rapid emergence of the middle-class consumer market covering food and drink, retail, financial services and telecommunications.

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The Americas

The Americas offer a rich variety of business development opportunities and challenges and our experts have many years' experience across the continent.

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Asia

We have a substantial presence in the fastest growing economic region in the world advising an enviable portfolio of local Asian clients and international corporates.

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Europe

As well as our UK offices we have close, well established, working relationships with leading independent full service firms.

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The GCC

Our GCC presence comprises offices in Dubai, Oman and Qatar and our lawyers are all long-term residents in the region.

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Where we don't have offices we combine with like-minded correspondent firms to deliver an international capability in all major jurisdictions and economic centres worldwide.

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Michael Barnett

"...brilliant team leader and strategic thinker on the complex cases...really understands what makes opponents tick...obviously knows the financial markets inside and out." Chambers UK

Divisional Managing Partner, Dispute Resolution

Expertise

Michael joined the litigation team as a Partner in 2005. Michael is widely known as a highly experienced specialist in financial markets disputes, having acted in recent years in some of the more high-profile and complex cases for financial institutions and other market participants, trade counterparties and investors.

Case highlights include:

Handling a series of structured product mis-selling cases for financial institutions
Fighting a number of high profile banking disputes, including:
- For Barclays in the recent Barclays Bank v UniCredit case which Barclays won at trial and in the Court of Appeal
- The BVG v JPMorgan and UBS & Depfa v KWL cases concerning investment by German utilities in collateralised debt obligations that, following jurisdiction challenges in the European Court, went on to lengthy trials dominating the Commercial Court in 2014, and where it concerns the KWL case is on its way to the Court of Appeal
- Acting for Clydesdale Bank in the widely followed Office of Fair Trading's test case on unauthorised overdraft charges that went up to the Supreme Court

Michael also spent six months in 2010 on secondment to Barclays Corporate and Investment Banking’s litigation team.