Stewarts Law LLP

Commercial Litigation

Partner

Lorraine specialises in high-value and complex commercial disputes. She has worked on a number of high-profile cases including the group litigation concerning RBS’s £12bn rights issue.

Lorraine specialises in general commercial disputes and has experience in a wide range of high- value contentious matters including banking and financial services litigation, fraud, shareholder disputes, insolvency, competition damages actions, judicial review, professional negligence, partnership disputes, and bribery and corruption. She also has experience in mediation, arbitration and expert determination.

Lorraine’s experience includes:

• Acted for the liquidators of three venture capital trusts investigating allegations concerning the former manager and liquidators of the companies
• Acted for 313 institutional investors in the group litigation against RBS regarding its 2008 £12bn rights issue
• Advising a leading UK FinTech company in relation to various disputes including a potential multi-investor claim
• Advising a world leading asset finance software company in relation to a shareholder dispute
• Advising on a series of high-value contractual disputes with major banks and companies in respect of the misuse of core computer systems
• Advised a major tobacco company on the judicial review of the decision to introduce plain packaging of tobacco products and in relation to its challenge of the EU Tobacco Products Directive II
• Advised on a number of high-value multiparty private competition follow-on damages actions in the High Court representing various global enterprises including a major oil and gas company
• Acted on a large-scale multi-jurisdictional bribery and corruption investigation
• Acted on high-profile professional negligence claim in the Commercial Court ranked as one of the Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2014

Lorraine trained at Ashurst LLP, qualifying in March 2010. She worked in Ashurst’s general commercial litigation team until October 2015, when she joined Stewarts.

Lorraine’s interests include music, dance, reading, yoga, the great outdoors (preferably the North York Moors) and spending time with family and friends. She has a passion for mentoring others within the legal profession, particularly maternity leave returners, and is a member of Stewarts’ parent buddy scheme.