Michelle boasts twenty years’ experience acting in complex, high value, cross border disputes, including company disputes, insolvency litigation, civil fraud and asset tracing claims, financial services litigation, professional negligence disputes and general commercial litigation, particularly breach of contract claims.
Michelle is highly strategic, analytical and approaches her cases with a high degree of intellectual rigour. She works closely with clients to ensure that their objectives are met, and that the best possible outcome is achieved. She advises on all stages of litigation, from pre-action through to fully contested trials, enforcement and appeals. She regularly acts for clients across a wide range of interim applications, including freezing injunctions, Norwich Pharmacal applications, search orders, security for costs and summary judgment.
Michelle’s experience spans many industry sectors including financial services, technology, entertainment, energy, construction and professional services. She has spent time on secondment in-house at two major banks, bringing practical experience to her financial services practice.
Michelle graduated from Oxford University in 2004 and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2005. She retains full rights of audience to appear in proceedings in all courts.
Michelle is often quoted in the press, with her commentary recently published in City AM, Law360, Metro, and The Daily Express. She has also written for The Times on the subject of the contempt of court and tools for ensuring compliance with court orders.
In her spare time, Michelle enjoys training and competing at Hyrox and CrossFit, often fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support in the process.
Her cases include:
- Representing a Cayman Islands’ fund in its capacity as multi-million pound creditor of an FCA regulated broker that had entered into special administration as a direct result of the Russian sanctions regime.
- Advising the director of an FCA regulated entity in respect of his co-director’s misappropriation of funds and misuse of customer monies.
- Obtaining a substantial settlement for a claimant in respect of a professional negligence claim against their former legal advisors.
- Representing the administrators of a deceased’s estate in their successful appeal to the Court of Appeal in respect of a complex breach of trust case.
- Representing a defendant aerospace company in a breach of contract claim by a merchant bank arising out of an M&A transaction.
- Advising a company specialising in brand management on contractual terms relating to several celebrity advertisement and endorsement campaigns.
- Representing a number of defendants in their successful defence of claims for breach of the Data Protection Act 1998, breach of privacy and misuse of confidential information.
- Advising a member of a prominent royal family in respect of a professional negligence claim against his former legal advisors, which ultimately led to the legal advisors being struck off.
- Advising an ultra-high-net-worth individual in respect of numerous breaches of both loan and shareholder agreements by a company they had invested significant sums in.