Clifford Chance (CC) has pledged to fight a $2bn (£966m) claim brought by the bankruptcy trustee overseeing the estate of DVI, a former US client of the magic circle firm.

The claim, which emerged earlier this week in a report by Legal Week sister publication the New York Law Journal, was filed in the US in March 2006 by Dennis Buckley, who is overseeing the bankruptcy of the healthcare finance company.