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Genevieve Anouck Labbe

Investor Manager, Litigation Funding - Litigation and Regulatory
London
About

Genevieve Labbe is a highly experienced lawyer and Investor Manager, focusing on litigation funding and regulatory matters, with an emphasis on high-stakes international litigation. She has a proven track record of negotiating third-party funding agreements across multiple jurisdictions, including Europe and the US. Fluent in English and French, Genevieve is skilled at coordinating complex global litigation strategies, particularly in the areas of cartel damage claims, securities litigation, and arbitration. Her work also includes managing more than 20 high-value commercial litigation and arbitration cases involving third-party funding, with substantial experience in negotiating ATE insurance and settlement agreements.

She has also supported the Civil Justice Council in developing and implementing regulations for litigation funding and the Paris Bar.

Genevieve practised law for over ten years at a Canadian law firm, focusing on complex negotiation and dispute resolution between major professional organisations and the government.

Areas of FocusLitigation, Arbitration and InvestigationsRegulatory and Government Affairs

EXPERIENCE

  • Coordinating global litigation strategies in relation to cartel damage claims in multiple jurisdictions, including trucks cartel before Dutch, UK and numerous car parts cartels before the UK, French, and US courts.
  • Negotiated over more than 20 high-value commercial litigation and arbitration cases in third party funding as well as negotiating ATE insurance and settlement agreements with funders and clients.
  • Negotiated Third party funding agreements in many opt-out proceedings before the UK High Court in data breach cases.
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish
Education
  • Bar school, Bar of Quebec
  • Laval University Law School, Civil and Common Law, LL.B.

Publications and media

  • Co-author, Friston on Costs (Oxford University Press, 2023), Chapter on Funding
  • "Opposabilité de la clause compromissoire au tiers financeur: une question d’immixtion!" (Revue droit et affaires, 2022)
  • Code de déontologie des avocats en entreprise (Barreau du Québec, 2008)

Prior Experience

  • 2024 to date, Investment Manager, DLA Piper, London
  • 2023, Director of European Investor relations in a corporate firm, New York/London
  • 2016-2023, Co-Managing and Of counsel in a leading competition litigation firm, Paris/London
  • 2014-2016, Investment Manager, in a Third Party funding company, London
  • 2010-2014, Managing Director, Third party funding company, London/New York
  • 2008-2010, Director, Third party funding company, London
  • 2000-2008, Associate in a corporate firm, Montreal

Memberships and Affiliations

  • SRA Registered- England and Wales – Registered Foreign Lawyer
  • Bar of Quebec – Admitted 2002
  • International bar association
  • Association of Canadian Bar
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Phone

+44 207 796 6213
(Work, London)
+44 738 547 8990
(Mobile, London)