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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 (2025) and Chambers & Partners (2021) for pensions litigation.  

Awards & Recognitions
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    "Brilliant"
    Legal 500
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    “He has demonstrated exceptional ability in handling cases at first instance and appellate level”
    Chambers and Partners 2016
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    "One of the world's leading practitioners in his field"
    Who's Who Legal: Litigation 2016

Relevant experience

  • Boskalis Group on the WD Fairway litigation and recovering in excess of €167m.
  • National Bus Company on claims concerning the return of a £355m surplus in the pension scheme.
  • Various banks and acquirers on successfully defending claims valued at in excess of €100m.
  • Odeon Capital Group LLC, a NYC broker dealer, on its successful defence of a claim by Molton Street Capital LLP concerning the cancellation of a contract for the sale of junk bonds (Molton Street Capital LLP v Shooters Hill Capital Partners LLP and Odeon Capital Group LLC [2015] EWHC 3419).
  • Atos IT Services UK Limited v Atos Pension Schemes Ltd (2020) (RPI/CPI, uprating of pensions).
  • US$15 million claim in the Cayman Islands concerning redemptions under a master/feeder fund structure.
  • A multi-national telecommunications company on two substantial arbitrations with parallel proceedings in Holland and Cyprus.

Publications

  • Could Supreme Court sewage decision open the floodgates? (Lexology, 4/7/24).
  • Back-to-back securities – Rome 1 and the importance of careful drafting (Lexis PSL, 18/12/15).
  • Contributor to the Pensions Law Handbook (15th Edition), Bloomsbury Professional.

Memberships & Roles

  • Member of the Association of Pension Lawyers and the Colorado Bar Association

Education

  • 2001 – Attorney (State of Colorado)
  • 1992 – Solicitor (LLB Hons)
  • 1990 – Legal Practice Course, Chester
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