Stephen Alexander, the ebullient partner who founded Class Law in 1998 with Howard Epstein, says that the firm’s group action expertise came about through circumstance.

What started the firm off was when a client asked the firm to block the merger between the Royal Life and Sun Alliance pension funds. The Royal & Sun Alliance action, in which Slaughter and May represented the other side, was successful, forcing the renegotiation of the terms of the deal.