Class Actions and Mass Actions

Allen & Overy ranks among the leading law firms in Germany. Our experienced team can draw on exceptional knowledge and comprehensive industry insights in defending companies against mass and class actions, and is in a position to coordinate Europe-wide and global defence cases (including against US class actions), as well as providing support for public communications.

Allen & Overy has experience in a broad range of class and mass actions, including breaches of securities legislation, adviser liability cases, consequential damages in antitrust proceedings, the legal implications of business transfers and insolvency cases.

Allen & Overy is in a position to quickly pool the necessary skills and to generate the capacities necessary to handle large volumes of data in short timeframes. Thanks to our global network, our Transaction Support Unit and Advanced Delivery Legal, we offer a particularly cost efficient approach.

Tailored work of the highest quality is equally important to us as efficient structures that can be scaled as needed, and the deployment of legal tech.

All lawyers at Allen & Overy have received training in the fundamentals of good project management, enabling them to work as efficiently as possible at all times. We also have access to specialist project managers at Allen & Overy's dedicated Project Management Office who can support our lawyers in project specific coordination tasks.

By deploying sophisticated legal tech solutions, we are able to process similar cases on the basis of defined standards in a very thorough and nevertheless cost efficient manner. Our tools include a litigation database programmed and developed in house which not only facilitates A&O case management, but also enables our clients to take risk management snapshots at any time.

All German lawyers are fully integrated in Allen & Overy's global network. We are thus in a position to also process cross border projects, while not losing sight of the local peculiarities in each case. Allen & Overy has also built up a first class network of partner firms.