Wallace LLP

Commercial litigation, civil fraud.

One of the founding partners and the senior partner of Byrne and Partners. Nicola is a commercial litigator with expertise in City fraud, financial services, trust disputes and complex fraud 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. Current cases include Tatneft-v-Bogolyubov and others, NTB Bank-v-Yurov and a high value BVI case involving Kazakhstan and complex trust issues, as well as a very substantial UK based fraud matter.  Nicola is a Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Criminal and Civil Proceedings).  Before Byrne and Partners Nicola worked at Dechert, the FSA and Clyde & Co.

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

ARDL (Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers); Fraud Lawyers Association.

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