Richard Swallow

• T  +44 (0)20 7090 4094 (Direct line)
• E  richard.swallow@slaughterandmay.com

• London 
• One Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8YY

Richard has a broad-ranging international commercial litigation, arbitration, and investigations practice. Areas of particular expertise include corporate crime and sanctions work, banking litigation, insurance and reinsurance disputes, and competition litigation. Richard represents clients in complex, high-value proceedings and has managed significant regulatory and criminal investigations often with parallel UK and US aspects. He spent three years working in our Hong Kong office advising on a range of commercial disputes throughout the South East Asia region.

Highlights include advising:

• GSK plc in relation to sanctions and corruption investigations by the UK (SFO) and US (SEC and Department of Justice) law enforcement bodies into the supply of goods into Iraq under the UN Oil-for-Food programme
• RWE Aktiengesellschaft, a leading European utility group, in its successful defence of a US$1.4 billion damages claim, subject to LCIA arbitration, brought by the Russian Sintez Group, owned by Senator Leonid Lebedev
• British Airways in relation to DoJ and European Commission investigations into an alleged air cargo cartel, and subsequent follow-on damages action in the UK courts, Emerald Supplies Ltd v British Airways [2009] EWHC 741 (ch), the leading case on an attempted US style class action in the UK
• JP Morgan Chase in relation to US, UK and Jersey criminal and regulatory investigations arising out of the collapse of Enron, and subsequent litigation in the UK (Mahonia Ltd and JP Morgan Chase Bank v West LB [2004] EWHC 1938 (COMM))
• Willis in relation to two of the highest value High Court cases to emerge from the PA LMX spiral issues of the 1990s

Richard is listed as a leading individual for Dispute Resolution, Banking Litigation, and Insurance (Contentious Claims) in Chambers UK 2012, and for Dispute Resolution in the current edition of Chambers Europe. He is also named as a leading individual for Banking Litigation and recommended for Civil Fraud in the Legal 500 2011.