Wallace LLP

Commercial Litigation, Civil Fraud

Nicola is a commercial litigator with 30 years’ experience of the most complex cross border disputes. Nicola has particular expertise in City fraud, financial services, trust and succession disputes and asset tracing matters. Nicola's practice focuses on multi jurisdiction litigation, often involving CIS and African parties and off-shore jurisdictions. She acts for high net worth individuals, legal and financial services professionals, corporates and hedge funds. She has extensive expertise and experience of interlocutory injunctive measures, particularly Freezing Orders and all issues relating to money laundering and civil forfeiture. Current matters include acting for the First and Second Defendants in The Public Institution of Social Security -v- al Rajaan and others, scheduled to be heard in the Commercial Court over 30 weeks 2025. Nicola is a Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Criminal and Civil Proceedings).  Before Wallace, Nicola worked at Byrne and Partners, Dechert, the FSA and Clyde & Co.

Clyde & Co; qualified 1994; Clyde & Co 1994-98; enforcement department FSA 1998-2000; Dechert 2000-03; co-founding partner Byrne & Partners 2003-2024

Sevenoaks School, St Anne’s College, Oxford (1988); Law Society Finals (1992 First Class Honours).