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Robert V. Hadley  Partner
London  +44.(0)20.7360.8166
Fax +44.(0)20.7648.9001
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Areas of Practice • Representative Experience • Professional Background • Speaking Engagements • Professional Memberships • Education

Areas of Practice

Robert is a partner in the firm’s Commercial Litigation and Securities Enforcement practice groups. He focuses on commercial litigation and regulatory enforcement and investigation matters. He has experience of litigation at all levels for clients in a variety of industries including the life assurance, financial services, construction, manufacturing, property and publishing sectors, as well as for individual clients. He has acted in FSA enforcement matters and advised firms and individuals on FSA regulatory issues.

Representative Experience
  • FSA investigations and enquiries into market abuse by market manipulation and misuse of information and into the circulation of announceable information
  • FSA authorization issues
  • Challenging a share valuation on a compulsory sale of shares at a very substantial undervalue, including an injunction application to restrain the sale
  • Obtaining an immediate retraction and apology and damages from a national newspaper over a serious libel of a public company in its business pages
  • Obtaining a freezing order against a currency exchange house
  • Grupo Torras and Manoukian -v- Prince Jefri
  • Leading a team of five lawyers, and a dozen paralegals in a highly complex engineering action
  • Advising clients on warranty and other contractual disputes in share purchase agreements and representing clients in such proceedings
  • Injunction proceedings concerning the unlawful removal of confidential documents and information from a technology company by a departing employee
  • Private company/boardroom/minority shareholder disputes
  • Disputes over standard terms and conditions and exclusion clauses
  • Very substantial commission claims from former life insurance salesmen
  • Freezing injunctions and disclosure orders concerning the "missing" millions allegedly diverted from a Scandinavian public company
  • Executive director departures
  • Allegations of lack of performance in major contracts for outsourced and other services
  • The giving of notices of claims under a £300 million group Sale and Purchase Agreement
  • Licensing and copyright disputes

Professional Background

Robert qualified as a lawyer in 1985 and is a solicitor advocate. He joined the firm in 1988 and became a partner in 1992.

Speaking Engagements
  • "Critical Regulatory Issues for International Fund Managers and Investment Advisers," London, January 2007
  • "Third Party Risk in Online Gambling," London, October 2006
  • "Critical Regulatory Issues for International Fund Managers and Investment Advisers," London, January 2006
  • "Internal Regulatory Investigations," Commerce & Industry Group, London, November 2005

Professional Memberships
  • Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (Member)
  • London Solicitors Litigation Association (Member)
  • The Society of Construction Law (Member)
  • Life Assurance Legal Society (Member)

Education
  • LL.B., University of Sheffield (1982)

PRACTICES & INDUSTRIES
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arbitration -- International and Domestic
Commercial Disputes
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
Government Enforcement
Insurance Coverage
Internal Investigations
International Trade
Labor and Employment
London Regulatory
Newsstand
Global Financial Market Watch Blog



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