Rory Spillman

Rory specialises in commercial and corporate litigation, banking and financial markets litigation, as well as regulatory investigations and white-collar crime. He has significant experience in representing large numbers of claimants in group claims against financial institutions, including claims pursuant to s.90 and 90A Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. With over 12 years’ experience, Rory represents institutions, corporates, private equity firms, high net worth individuals and financial entities from varying jurisdictions, focussing on complex and high value commercial, banking and financial markets disputes. Rory represents clients in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Rory is currently advising a group of c. 230 institutions with respect to a claim against Standard Chartered Bank PLC pursuant to s. 90 and 90A FSMA, which has included the Court of Appeal handing down its first judgment in a claim under those provisions. His experience also includes FCA investigations and interviews, Upper Tribunal proceedings, and advising individuals with respect to FCA investigations into them and their employers. This includes advising and working with legal teams in other jurisdictions (including the US) in the wider context of multi-jurisdictional regulatory, criminal and civil investigations, including SEC and DOJ proceedings. In 2024, Rory was appointed to the committee of The Collective Redress Lawyers Association, providing a forum to gather specialist legal practitioners in the field of collective redress in order to advocate for reform. · Signature Litigation LLP

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Rory Spillman is a partner at Signature Litigation LLP who specialises in commercial and corporate litigation, banking and financial markets litigation, regulatory investigations and white-collar crime. With over 12 years’ experience he represents institutions, corporates, private equity firms, high net worth individuals and financial entities in complex, high-value disputes and multi-jurisdictional regulatory, criminal and civil investigations, including group claims under ss.90 and 90A Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and proceedings in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.

Practice areas

Commercial LitigationBanking & FinanceRegulatory InvestigationsWhite-Collar CrimeCollective Redress

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England

Signature Litigation LLP · Rory specialises in commercial and corporate litigation, banking and financial markets litigation, as well as regulatory investigations and white-collar crime. He has significant experience in representing large numbers of claimants in group claims against financial institutions, including claims pursuant to s.90 and 90A Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. With over 12 years’ experience, Rory represents institutions, corporates, private equity firms, high net worth individuals and financial entities from varying jurisdictions, focussing on complex and high value commercial, banking and financial markets disputes. Rory represents clients in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Rory is currently advising a group of c. 230 institutions with respect to a claim against Standard Chartered Bank PLC pursuant to s. 90 and 90A FSMA, which has included the Court of Appeal handing down its first judgment in a claim under those provisions. His experience also includes FCA investigations and interviews, Upper Tribunal proceedings, and advising individuals with respect to FCA investigations into them and their employers. This includes advising and working with legal teams in other jurisdictions (including the US) in the wider context of multi-jurisdictional regulatory, criminal and civil investigations, including SEC and DOJ proceedings. In 2024, Rory was appointed to the committee of The Collective Redress Lawyers Association, providing a forum to gather specialist legal practitioners in the field of collective redress in order to advocate for reform.

England

Expertise

Collective redress / group claims (s.90 & s.90A FSMA)Financial institutions disputesMulti-jurisdictional regulatory, criminal and civil investigationsFCA investigations and Upper Tribunal proceedingsSEC and DOJ-related mattersAppellate litigation (High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court)