Group Claims Contacts
Pedro is a Partner within the Dispute Resolution department, specialising in group actions and cross-border litigation.
With a focus on environmental, human rights, consumer, and competition matters, Pedro has successfully represented hundreds of thousands of individuals, businesses, and public entities in international group claims. His extensive experience encompasses the comprehensive management of international group actions, overseeing both the legal aspects and operational facets, including mass client aggregation and the procurement of third-party litigation funding.
In addition to his role in dispute resolution, Pedro serves as a Partner and Board Member at SOMOS, a claim’s management company in the Mishcon Group which provides law firms with technology, marketing, legal support, and customer care services in relations to mass torts and class actions.
Beyond his professional roles, Pedro is the co-founder and President of the Latin American Institute for Collective Justice (ILAJUC). ILAJUC is an NGO dedicated to the examination of how collective legal frameworks contribute to the enhancement of democracy, socioeconomic development, social solidarity, and broader access to justice within Latin America.
Tomás is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution department. He has over a decade of experience in International Law, focusing on group actions, complex litigations, environmental issues, human rights advocacy, and supervising operations in Europe, South America, and Asia.
Tomás is recognised for his adept handling of high-stakes international group actions involving environmental, competition and consumer matters. He played a critical role in building the most extensive legal case to be presented before the English Courts. This ambitious project brought together affected municipalities, organisations, and individuals in the aftermath of a catastrophic event in Brazil.
Tomás is also the co-founder of Somos Claims Management, where he serves as a board member, contributing to the company’s strategic direction and governance.
Gary is a Senior Partner in the Fraud & Asset Recovery Group of Mishcon de Reya LLP where he has been a partner for 32 years. He is an international litigator who has specialised in complex international commercial disputes involving dishonesty, fraud and corruption issues for over 46 years.
For the first 13 years of his career Gary worked in Hong Kong and headed up the Litigation Departments of two of the leading firms there. During this time Gary worked for the leading multi-national financial institutions in Asia, assisting them in asset recovery exercises and enforcing foreign judgments in Hong Kong and throughout Asia. Gary is a Cantonese and Mandarin speaker.
In 1991 Gary joined Mishcon de Reya and founded the Fraud & Asset Recovery Group which he led for over 15 years. He introduced and pioneered the use of injunctions in the arena of asset recovery with particular emphasis on freezing assets, forcing disclosure of financial information from third parties and seizing evidence via search orders in order to force speedy resolutions of commercial disputes.
Gary also regularly advises organisations on how to protect themselves from bribery and corruption risks and assisting them in dealing discreetly with internal and external issues arising when such risks materialise. Gary works closely with Chief Executives, FD’s, HR Heads as well as Legal and Audit Departments to devise strategies to minimise the criminal, civil and reputational exposure created by internal and external corruption.
Chambers 2021 cites Gary as a “strategically brilliant” and “a huge figure in the market.” He entered the Legal500 Hall of Fame in October 2020.
Gary is also an Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.
