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Weapons down: CC settles high profile Excalibur negligence case

Weapons down: CC settles high profile Excalibur negligence case
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Legal Business
9 December 2015

Avoiding the prospect of a costly and public trial, Clifford Chance (CC) has settled a professional negligence claim against it over the high-profile Excalibur dispute brought by the case’s funders and Greek shipping tycoons, the Lemos family, for an undisclosed sum.

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