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Georgia is a commercial litigator. She practises exclusively in banking and financial services litigation, civil fraud and asset recovery, company and insolvency matters and commercial professional liability disputes.
Georgia primarily acts in litigation involving accessorial liability, banking liabilities, breach of fiduciary duty and trust, conspiracy and fraud and she has specialist experience in company and insolvency disputes. Georgia is frequently instructed in international disputes, or cases with jurisdictional challenges, and is experienced in obtaining and resisting applications for urgent relief, most notably freezing and disclosure orders.
Georgia is a highly regarded and powerful advocate who provides authoritative and commercial advice accompanied by forensic analysis. Georgia is regularly instructed as sole Counsel in high-value and complex commercial litigation in the specialist divisions of the High Court on appeal and at first instance (in both trials and interlocutory applications).
Banking and Financial Services
Georgia has significant experience acting for and against banks and other financial institutions in all aspects of banking and financial services litigation. Georgia is habitually instructed by several of the “Big Four” banks alongside a variety of international banks on a wide range of banking and financial services disputes.
Georgia’s recent experience includes:
Advising as to the prospects of success of defending a claim for irresponsible lending.
Commercial Fraud and Asset Recovery
Georgia specialises in civil and commercial fraud. She primarily acts in litigation involving accessorial liability (including dishonest assistance and knowing receipt), asset recovery and tracing, breach of fiduciary and statutory duties, breach of trust, bribery, conspiracy, fraudulent misrepresentation and banking, financial and investment fraud.
The nature of Georgia’s practice means she has particular strength in acting in cases in which urgent relief is sought (primarily freezing, search and disclosure orders alongside proprietary injunctions) and she is experienced in international cases or those with jurisdictional issues and challenges.
Georgia is regularly instructed in £multi-million fraud litigation as sole Counsel. Her recent experience as sole Counsel includes:
Georgia’s commercial practice covers a wide range of disputes and is complemented by her experience in banking and financial services litigation and corporate and insolvency disputes.
Georgia’s recent experience as sole Counsel includes:
Strengthening Georgia’s commercial litigation practice is her extensive experience in company and partnership litigation. Georgia regularly acts in shareholder disputes and has particular experience in disputes with allegations of breach of fiduciary duty.
Recent cases in which Georgia has been instructed as sole counsel include:
Acting in a high value partnership dispute concerning alleged serious breaches of the partnership agreement and diversion of the partnership’s primary client base.
Georgia has extensive experience in all aspects of domestic and cross-border corporate insolvency and acts for both office-holders and other financial institutions and professionals (including banks and company directors). She also acts in complex or high value personal insolvency matters.
Georgia is frequently instructed in claims brought by office-holders against company officers, predominantly for breach of fiduciary and statutory duty, fraud, misfeasance and antecedent transactions, alongside litigation involving banks and other third parties. Georgia has significant High Court trial experience in all aspects of insolvency litigation.
Georgia’s recent experience includes:
Notable Cases
Re Mederco (Cardiff) Ltd [2021] EWHC 386 (Ch).
Application in the High Court relating to a defective administration extension where the consent of hundreds of international investors with claims exceeding £4.5 million, who should have been treated as secured creditors as holders of equitable liens, was not obtained. Significant judgment considering whether the Court can backdate a retrospective administration order for more than 364 days and determining that the post-Brexit legislation applied despite the order being backdated before the end of the transition period. Retrospective administration order plus an extension obtained.
Georgia is highly experienced in directors’ and officers’ (D&O) claims and related coverage disputes, alongside claims against insolvency practitioners, in which she is particularly well positioned to act given her extensive experience in corporate and insolvency litigation.
Georgia regularly advises and acts (for both claimants and defendants) in claims concerning directors’ and officers’ breaches of fiduciary and statutory duty, insurance coverage disputes under D&O policies, claims with an insolvency element, proceedings brought pursuant to the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010 and misfeasance proceedings against office-holders.
Georgia’s recent experience includes:
Advising and successfully appearing in the High Court on behalf of joint administrators in relation to their proposed appointment as liquidators in circumstances in which many creditors had brought misfeasance proceedings against the joint administrators.
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