Peter Crossley is the firm’s European Managing Partner, and he also has management responsibility for the Advocacy Practice Area of the Global Firm.  He previously served as the Head of Litigation and he has more than 25 years of experience as a commercial litigator in the UK, and initially in South Africa.  His work involves acting for a wide range of businesses and includes international sales of goods disputes, fraud compliance and regulatory work, contractual warranty claims, partnership and shareholder disputes.

Peter has been listed as a leading commercial litigator in both Chambers UK and The Legal 500 UK.

Peter is active in a number of business and community organisations.  He is a Director of Solicitors Indemnity Mutual Insurance Association Limited, and a Trust Governor of the Crossley Heath School in Halifax, UK.

Representative Experience

• Acting in a £20 million warranty claim arising out of an institutional buy-out of a manufacturing group in Belgium.
• Defending a number of multi million pound product liability claims, one against a major plc.
• Handling a major and highly sensitive regulatory and compliance issue for a plc.
• Dealing with a high profile professional negligence case against a Barrister (now a judge) and a well known firm of solicitors.
• Representing a substantial US shipper in a major Bill of Lading dispute.
• Dealing with a major dispute in relation to the ticketing arrangements for the London Olympic Games 2012.