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Emily Saunderson
Position
Emily is a general commercial practitioner specialising in commercial fraud, and banking and finance.
Career
Emily has experience in a broad range of commercial cases involving, for example, contractual interpretation and rectification; dishonest assistance; fraud; bribery; fraudulent trading; rights of set-off; contractual estoppel; rights under contracts of indemnity; and guarantees.
Her banking and finance practice has a particular emphasis on financial derivatives instruments, and she is familiar with standard form contracts including the ISDA Master Agreement.
Before embarking on a career in law, Emily was a financial journalist covering the global derivatives markets. She brings a strong understanding and useful insider’s perspective on financial markets to her legal practice.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR, LCLCBA
Education
BA (Hons) Philosophy 1st class, University of Southampton;, PgDL, University of Westminster;, BVC, Inns of Court School of Law
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Financial services regulation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Emily Saunderson –Quadrant Chambers ‘Incredible attention to detail – Emily is always on top of her brief, well prepared and able to present complex legal and regulatory advice in a way that clients can understand. She is also an impressive negotiator, bringing a useful skill set to meditations and settlement meetings.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5Emily Saunderson – Quadrant Chambers ‘Simply wonderful. Emily is extremely thorough with her preparation, and her drafting skills are up there with the best silks. Extremely calm and methodical in her advocacy, but knows when to be assertive for her client.’
‘Increasingly considered one of the top all-round commercial litigation sets‘, Quadrant Chambers‘ members were recently particularly active in disputes involving banking, international trade, IT, telecoms, media, LNG, energy, retail and insurance, as well as contractual and joint venture-related claims. In one of the first post-Brexit case concerning the interface between arbitration law and consumer protection law, Simon Rainey KC represented the appellant, art collector Amir Soleymani, in a NFT auction-related claim against Nifty’s crypto trading platform, successfully seeking permission to argue the case before the Court of Appeal; and in SEGRO v Roxhill, Paul Downes KC and Emily Saunderson are both acting in relation to various disputes between property development companies over alleged breaches of warranty and the right to develop sites for logistics centres.
London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Emily Saunderson –Quadrant Chambers ‘Emily’s advice is excellently put together. She is user-friendly and responsive.’
Quadrant Chambers are ‘well-regarded and respected for banking litigation‘, in work both related and unrelated to the set’s well-known expertise in international trade and shipping. Paul Downes KC and Nicola Allsop acting for Liberty Steel entities in various proceedings against lenders in Anns Middle East FZE v LIQS PTE Ltd. Turlough Stone advises and acts for a wide range of domestic and international institutions and individuals, while Emily Saunderson is noted for her work in a range of financial markets claims relating to breach of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and broker’s duties to their clients.