Philip Linton is a highly experienced and well-known financial services practitioner.
Philip joined Ashurst Perkins Coie after 12 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Managing Director and led the firm’s EMEA Litigation and Contentious Regulatory team. Philip has significant experience in managing and advising on high profile domestic and cross-border wholesale financial services litigation, internal and regulatory investigations and related enforcement proceedings, across industry sectors, asset classes and geographies.
He regularly advises investment banks, principal dealers, hedge funds and asset managers on high-profile and cross-border issues involving equity capital markets, debt capital markets, M&A, FICC and equities, asset management, private wealth management, private equity and private credit.
Philip’s litigation practice focusses on wholesale financial services disputes and includes (i) assisting in the preparation, execution and aftermath of close-outs under Terms of Business, ISDAs, GMRAs, GMSLAs, etc.; (ii) dealing with day-to-day issues involving sales & trading, structuring and execution services disputes; (iii) investigations into disputed trades, misleading communications, mismarking of books, etc.; and (iv) investment banking fee disputes.
Philip is also one of the top UK practitioners on market abuse. He regularly advises and trains financial services clients in relation to internal and regulatory investigations concerning alleged insider dealing, unlawful disclosure and market manipulation, and corporates and their financial advisors in relation to leak inquiries by the FCA and The Takeover Panel.
