Contact Details
Location Bournemouth
Phone 01202 057741

Luke Baldwin

Solicitor

Banking & Finance Litigation

My Approach

I strive to deliver a proactive high quality service driven to provide you with a competitive edge in a constantly changing business environment.

I focus on giving clear and concise legal advice and always push to ‘think outside the box’ to create an innovative approach to meet your objectives.

Areas of Expertise

  • Bank & Advisor misconduct claims.
  • Claims surrounding restructuring and distressed sales.
  • Consequential loss claims.
  • Consumer credit disputes.
  • Contractual claims.
  • Debt recovery.
  • Financial mis-selling claims, including:
    • Interest Rate Hedging Products (Interest Rate Swaps, Interest Rate Collars, Interest Rate Caps);
    • Mis-sold Pensions, including Self Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs);
    • Tailored Business Loan and Commercial Fixed Rate Loans;
    • Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) claims.
  • Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) complaints.
  • Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) complaints.
  • FCA regulatory disputes.
  • Personal and Commercial Banking issues.
  • Professional negligence claims.
  • Rate manipulation, including:
    • Libor rate manipulation;
    • Foreign exchange rate manipulation.

Recent Work Includes

  • The Banking & Finance Team has worked on over 125 cases nationally involving care home owners, caravan park operators, hoteliers, pub owners and property developers on Interest Rate Hedging Product mis-selling cases alone (believed to be the 3rd largest case load of Interest Rate Hedging Product mis-selling in the UK). I was a valuable member of the team that successfully recovered sums in excess of £30million for our clients.
  • Instructed by a large property developer in relation to a mis-sold Fixed Rate Loan and successfully reclaimed in excess of £200k through the Financial Ombudsman Service.
  • Acting for a number of clients in relation to their consequential loss claims resulting from mis-sold Interest Rate Hedging Products and successfully recovering substantial compensation for them.

Experience, Professional Associations and Qualifications

  • Qualified as a solicitor in March 2016
  • LLB (Hons) Law Degree from the University of Southampton
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of West England
  • Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500 (UK 2017) for Commercial Litigation
  • Recommended Department by The Legal 500 (UK 2016) for Commercial Litigation
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Reviews

A great outcome thanks to Will Fox Bregman and Luke Baldwin who worked very hard to resolve matters on my behalf. I would thoroughly recommend this firm of solicitors.

Mrs Hands

Many thanks for resolving our car dispute, as it was a worry to us. We did not think we would have a successful outcome, you advice was invaluable.

Mr & Mrs Ryan