Company
Position
Partner
Chair
Head of department
Index
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Location
London
Advice type
Legal - Commercial litigation
Legal - Dispute resolution
White-collar crime
Client type
Business owners
Corporate clients
International UHNWs
Private clients
UHNW families
Sector Focus
Legal Advisory Services
Lucas Moore
Spear’s Review
‘We are typically dealing with people who sit at the very top of businesses,’ says Lucas Moore, who heads up Payne Hicks Beach’s commercial disputes practice within the wider litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution department.
Moore, who is also chair of the firm’s management board, takes on many of the firm’s most high-profile and high-value corporate dispute cases, specialising in shareholder claims, financial disagreements, civil fraud, contentious insolvency and professional negligence. He has also, on occasion, advised on various judicial review claims. Counting family offices, UHNW individuals and owner-managed corporates among his clientele, he is well versed in the inner workings of litigation as well as arbitration.
He has a particular specialism in fraud investigations, and led the firm’s high-profile Terna Energy Trading v Revolut Ltd litigation in 2024. The case was a landmark in determining whether individuals who are deceived into transferring funds to fraudsters through authorised push payment (APP) fraud can hold banks liable for their losses.
He notes that, particularly with civil fraud cases, many international UHNWs are choosing to carry out proceedings in London courts due to their ‘intellectual and evidential rigour’.
‘We are seeing an increasing internationalisation of the London disputes workload, which [Payne Hicks Beach] is very well placed to capture,’ he says.
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