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About
Elizabeth advises on complex corporate and commercial disputes in the English Courts and international arbitration, and on competition infringement disputes.
Elizabeth advises corporates, funds, investors and financial institutions on a broad range of complex, cross-border commercial and corporate disputes and acts for clients in the High Court, the Competition Appeal Tribunal and in arbitration.
She has a broad practice encompassing disputes involving complex financial products and commodities trading, renewable energy and engineering, biopharmaceuticals, hospitality, sport, private equity, and competition law.
She has particular expertise in disputes involving complex financial models or technical issues, and the interaction between competition law and the exclusive licensing of data rights. She acted for Betgenius and Genius Sports in the standalone competition claim brought by Sportradar which was jointly case managed and heard together with Betgenius and Football DataCo’s breach of confidence claims against Sportradar and its scouts. She has also recently acted on a case concerning allegations of gross negligence and repudiatory breach in relation to the early-stage development and manufacture of a novel antibody for cancer treatment and on cases concerning allegations of defective engineering design and installation.
Elizabeth is a qualified Solicitor-Advocate, and spent six months as a judicial assistant to the Competition Tribunal in South Africa. She is also a mentor for one of Macfarlanes’ first Macfarlanes Training Scholars.
Experience
- Acting for Betgenius and Genius Sports in the complex, interwoven competition claim by Sportradar against FDC, Betgenius and Genius Sports and counterclaims by Betgenius and FDC against Sportradar and a representative group of Sportradar’s scouts for breach of confidence, trespass and conspiracy to injury by unlaw means. These claims were jointly case managed and heard together across the Competition Appeal Tribunal and High Court in a five week trial (which settled mid-way through the trial), and gave rise to novel procedural issues.
- Acting for a multinational CDMO in relation to a complex dispute concerning the development and manufacture of a novel biologic drug substance, and allegations of gross negligence and breach of contract.
- Acting for a leading derivatives and commodities broker in a High Court claim concerning fraudulent misrepresentation, conspiracy and debt claims.
- Acting for a multinational mechanical engineering company based in Germany in relation to a high-value dispute with a newspaper producer regarding the alleged defective design and installation of commercial printing presses.
- Acting for Prysmian in a follow-on damages claim concerning an alleged overcharge on the high voltage submarine power cables procured for the Greater Gabbard offshore windfarm.
- Acting for a wind farm developer in its successful adjudication of a dispute that arose out of the construction of a wind farm and the defective installation of a key component in the substation.
- Acting for a foreign domiciled, multinational hotel group in a High Court claim concerning contractual interpretation and repudiatory breach of contract claims.