Guy Robson

Guy Robson is a partner with Bailey Glasser International and is head of its Latin America practice assisting Latin American based clients with disputes in England & Wales and other jurisdictions. Guy has two decades of experience in high-stakes commercial litigation, collective redress, and civil fraud cases in England & Wales, including successfully litigating cases in the Commercial Court, Chancery and Technology Courts, the Court of Appeal and the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). Guy is a qualified solicitor-advocate (Higher Rights of Audience) and many of his cases have an international or cross-border dimension. Guy was seconded to the litigation teams of global banking giants Citibank and HSBC and was also seconded for significant periods to work for his firm in Belgium, Italy, Germany and Brazil. 

Some of Guy’s noteworthy cases include: 

• Advising on two of the largest collective redress proceedings (“class actions”) ever brought in the courts of England & Wales, acting for hundreds of thousands of claimants in the process, including successfully acting for clients on the multimillion pound Fundao dam collapse, which is the largest opt-in group litigation in England & Wales by class size;
• Acting for a global financial institution intervenor in one of the most foundational collective redress cases in England & Wales;
• Providing strategic advice to some of the most high profile collective redress proceedings brought in the EU, including in the Netherlands and Germany;
• Advising a Ukrainian energy company in respect of a complex LCIA arbitration centred on a $5 billon syndicated loan involving nation states; and
• Acting for a media and telecoms company in proceedings in the High Court in London in relation to the sale of Formula One to CVC (the case was recognised by The Lawyer as one of the Top 20 cases of 2018).

Guy started his career at the "magic circle" law firm Freshfields where he trained and practiced as a lawyer in the dispute resolution team before spending three years at specialist litigation and arbitration firm Signature Litigation LLP and then most recently at the international litigation firm of Pogust Goodhead. Guy has also advised global financial institutions and corporations in respect of contentious regulatory matters and internal investigations involving the SFO, FCA, DOJ, SEC and authorities in the EU including the European Commission.

Guy is a founder and board member of the Collective Redress Lawyers Association (CORLA) of England & Wales, an association that represents practitioners and advocates for improvements to the collective redress system in England & Wales. Guy is also on the advisory board of Perfect Law. Guy has recently co-edited and contributed the England & Wales chapter to the Class Actions Law Guide (Global Legal Post, 2026) having previously contributed the England & Wales chapter to the Chambers Global Practice Guide: Litigation (2019). Guy has been rated in major legal guides including The Legal 500 and Lawdragon 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers Guide.