Class Actions and Mass Actions
Our German dispute resolution practice team regularly works with clients involved in numerous proceedings concerning parallel fact patterns. The team has extensive experience with the particular challenges associated with class actions and mass actions, ensuring seamless coordination between our specialists from various fields.
Efficient organisation allows the team to always take appropriate account of the need for cost efficiency, which is often of key importance in matters of this kind. This concerns processes such as coordinating fact finding and evaluating these facts, as well as structuring the actual litigation management. Thanks to our global network, we are also in a position to offer made to measure solutions for cross border mass actions.
Selection of past cases
Defending against several hundred claims for consequential damages relating to the "Trucks cartel" in Germany and several other jurisdictions
Successful defence against over 300 prospectus liability claims for a financing bank, including bringing model case proceedings that were published in the complaint register (Act on Model Case Proceedings in Disputes under Capital Markets Law (KapMuG))
Defending a major international accounting firm in numerous actions brought by investors of an insolvent bank
Strategic advice on and successful defence against mass actions relating to alleged liability for a so called Ponzi scheme
Advising an insurer on claims relating to allegedly inaccurate information in a securities prospectus in several Australian court cases (incl. a class action)
Defending against US class actions in connection with a cross border tax efficient structured financial transaction hedged with various derivative transactions
Advising and representing clients in disputes relating to data protection offences
Representing an airline in numerous legal disputes with pilots and cabin staff relating to an alleged transfer of undertaking
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