Edward Argles

Overview

I am a Senior Associate in the Commercial & Regulatory Disputes team, based in our London office.

I specialise in complex commercial litigation, with significant experience in high-value financial services litigation, securities disputes involving investors and listed companies involving claims brought under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, and claims arising out of the loss or misappropriation of investment assets. This has involved me acting for investment companies, financial services and wealth management firms, and insolvency practitioners in proceedings before the High Court and Court of Appeal.

I have also acted for financial services firms in contentious regulatory matters involving the FCA, and litigation funders in disputes concerning the enforcement of litigation funding agreements.

I have experience in putting in place litigation funding and after-the-event insurance on behalf of clients, in order to facilitate their ability to bring a claim or to help safeguard the client from the risks associated with litigation. I also have experience of acting on group claims involving multiple individuals or corporates whose claims raise similar issues of fact or law, and of putting in place the inter-claimant management arrangements necessary to bring such claims.

Before joining Michelmores, I spent over seven years at a boutique commercial litigation practice in London, where I trained and qualified as a solicitor in 2022. During that time, I worked on many of the firm’s largest cases, gaining broad and in-depth experience across the full range of contentious work undertaken by a specialist litigation practice.

I have written articles for the Law Society Gazette’s Litigation Funding Magazine, and Practical Law’s Dispute Resolution Column.

I am a member of the London Solicitors Litigation Association.

Recent experience

Acting for a large group of retail and institutional investors in claims under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 against Home REIT plc and others, arising from alleged untrue and misleading statements in the company’s prospectuses and other published information

Acting for the liquidators of three venture capital trusts in long-running High Court proceedings concerning alleged mismanagement and misappropriation of investment assets

Acting for lead claimants in Commercial Court litigation worth approximately US$500 million against the Swiss investment bank UBS

Acting for clients of a regulated financial services firm placed into Investment Bank Special Administration by the FCA to pursue the recovery of missing client assets and claims against third parties

Acting for a litigation funder in LCIA arbitrations concerning the enforcement of litigation funding agreements