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Genevieve Anouck Labbe

Investor Manager, Litigation Funding - Litigation & Regulatory

About

Genevieve Labbe is a highly experienced lawyer, Investor Manager, specialising in litigation funding and regulatory matters, with a focus 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 adept at coordinating complex global litigation strategies, particularly in the fields of cartel damage claims, securities litigation, and arbitration. Her expertise also includes handling over more than 20 high-value commercial litigation and arbitration cases in third party funding, with substantial experience negotiating ATE insurance and settlement agreements.

She is also assisted the Civil Justice Counsel in developing and implementing regulations for litigation funding and the Paris Bar.

Geneviève also practiced law for over ten years at a Canadian law firm, specialising in complex negotiation and dispute resolution between major professional organizations and the government.

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 dimmixtion!" (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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