Covington & Burling LLP operates as a limited liability partnership worldwide, with the practice in England and Wales conducted by an affiliated
limited liability multinational partnership, Covington & Burling LLP, which is formed under the laws of the State of Delaware in the United States
and authorized and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority with registration number 77071..
Greg Lascelles advises clients in high-stakes matters with significant financial or reputational risk. His broad-based practice covers complex international commercial litigation, arbitration, regulatory investigations and Parliament Select Committee hearings.
He acts for major corporates, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and individuals, with a broad range of experience across financial services, life sciences, technology, manufacturing, construction, music, sport, real estate, and consumer goods. His cases involve disputes relating to interpretation, M&A disputes (warranties, indemnities and earn-outs), bonus and remuneration, Companies Act matters, shareholder disputes, data litigation, securities litigation (misselling, mismanagement and close-outs) and disputes involving serious issues of fraud. He has been involved in groundbreaking High Court and FCA disputes relating to, among other things, market abuse and collective selling, as well as in the Supreme Court on the interpretation of standard contractual clauses. Greg's regulatory matters (including at the FCA, FRC, SFO and Insolvency Service) relate to market abuse and financial statement reporting. As well as regular advice to clients on contract drafting and risk avoidance, he has recently been advising on developments in FDI and national security legislation.
Greg's recent High Court cases have been listed in The Lawyer's Top 20 cases of the year in 2019 and 2020 and he is currently advising on one of the most significantly complex corporate investigations the FCA has conducted and one of the largest director disqualification cases to have been brought by the Secretary of State. Greg's pro bono work includes representing a child imprisonment campaigning charity in references to the Supreme Court and ECHR, and Freedom of Information Act requests for other groups. He can and does advise clients in English, French and Spanish.
Greg serves on the firm's Business Committee as well as the firm's Evaluation Committee.
Advised on a complex series of disputes between Ukrainian oligarchs, their corporate vehicles and various third parties under Ukrainian and English law. The matter involved a number of interim hearings and judgments, the successful defence of fraud claims in an 8-week trial (which was a The Lawyer "Top 20 Cases" of 2019) and subsequent worldwide freezing orders.
Represented the World Anti-Doping Agency defending negligence and defamation claims brought by an athlete. The case included a successful novel judgment on the High Court's jurisdiction in preliminary hearings on defamation matters.
Counsel to the former director of a listed company in various regulatory proceedings as a result of company insolvency. This involves representations on one of the most significantly complex corporate investigations the FCA has conducted and one of the largest director disqualification cases to have been brought by the Secretary of State.
Advised a major pharmaceutical company in relation to transactions with the UK government concerning vaccine production facilities.
Advising a consumer products manufacturer in relation to group consumer claims following a systems breach involving the alleged compromise of personal and private data.
Represented significant financial institutions, including leading international investment banks and fund managers, in disputes in the High Court and Supreme Court.
Advised bookmakers, utility meter providers and tyre manufacturers as defendants and claimants in anti-trust actions in the High Court.
Represented major financial institutions in regulatory investigations and enforcement actions conducted by the FCA, the SFO and the European Commission, including large market abuse matters.
Represented owners and corporates in LCIA and ICC arbitration proceedings, including ancillary Court proceedings in England, Bermuda and the BVI.
Represented numerous private equity funds to resolve investor, internal and portfolio company issues.
Represented a major music label on multiple and significant post-transaction contractual disputes.
Represented high net worth individuals from Europe and the Middle East in real estate and art investment disputes.
Representing a major music label on multiple and significant post-transaction contractual disputes.
Representing high net worth individuals from Europe and the Middle East in real estate and art investment disputes.
Advising a hedge fund and a foreign exchange service on potential investment treaty claims.
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