Neal is a partner in the Dispute Resolution Group.  He has a wide ranging commercial litigation and arbitration practice, representing clients in complex, high value, domestic and multi-jurisdictional disputes.

Neal’s practice covers a variety of industry sectors such as financial services, most notably pensions, general insurance business, commercial real estate and real estate funds, waste management and environmental services.  He also has considerable experience of representing ultra-high-net-worth individuals and family offices on disputes covering multiple asset classes.

Neal has been involved in many of the leading pension fund litigation cases, from the asset recovery programme following the collapse of the Maxwell publishing empire in the 1990s to the much more recent RPI/CPI related litigation.

Neal also has extensive experience of handling, both at first instance and on appeal, high profile follow-on actions under group litigation orders.  He is recognised as a star lawyer by Acritas (2020-2021) and as a leading individual by Legal 500 (2021) and Chambers & Partners (2021) for pensions litigation.