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Craig Pollack  Partner
+44 (0)20 7111 2275
craig.pollack@sjberwin.com

Craig Pollack is Head of Litigation and a member of the firm’s Strategy Committee. He specialises in complex commercial litigation, multi-jurisdictional disputes, regulatory investigations and financial markets disputes. Craig is also well known as a mediation expert and advocate. His clients include major investment banks, hedge funds, public companies, private equity houses, high net worth individuals and sovereign states.

Craig is ranked as a leader in the field for commercial litigation and dispute resolution by Chambers UK, Chambers Global, Legal 500, The Legal Experts Guide and PLC Directory.

The directories have described him as being a “fantastic litigator”, “impressing with his creativity, understanding and prompt attention”, as having “a brilliant brain”, having “earned client confidence for his sound advice on risk management and litigation strategy” and having “established an enviable reputation”.

Recent cases include:

• Acting for a major hedge fund in the leading FSA investigation into market abuse
• Acting for a syndicate of banks in a dispute arising out of the credit crunch    
• Acting for a Russian oligarch in a shareholder dispute over a significant East European asset
• Acting for an activist shareholder hedge fund in challenging a European-wide corporate re-organisation    
• Acting for a broker dealer in a high profile investigation into mis-selling practices

Craig holds bachelor degrees in economics from Cape Town University and law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Masters Degree in law from London University. He is dual qualified in England and Israel.