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Christian Tuddenham advises financial institutions and companies worldwide in connection with complex litigation and arbitration, including securities litigation, civil fraud and economic tort claims, restructuring and contentious insolvency situations, shareholder and joint venture disputes, and asset-tracing and enforcement matters. Christian has particular experience managing disputes in emerging and frontier markets, including throughout the Middle East, India, Pakistan, Russia and the CIS.

Christine Braamskamp

When reputational, legal, governance, enforcement, and shareholder issues collide, multinational corporations, senior executives and audit/risk committees seek out Christine Braamskamp to provide counsel on their most high priority legal challenges. Drawing on her diverse international experience, Christine partners with clients to guide them through a broad range of compliance, investigations, and white-collar matters. She serves as Managing Partner of the London office, a Co-Chair of the firm’s Investigations Department, and of both its Investigations, Compliance and Defense and Culture Risk and Sensitive Investigations Practices.

Clare Hennessey

Clare Hennessey is special counsel in the firm’s London office. Her practice focuses on the resolution of complex commercial disputes via litigation in the English courts. Clare’s broad experience includes advising clients in relation to complex civil fraud, breaches of contract and warranty, shareholder and joint venture disputes, professional negligence, and competition and regulatory investigations, in sectors including finance, energy, construction, automotive, telecommunications, and professional services. She also has particular experience in cartel damages actions before the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

Edward Davis

Ed Davis is a leading commercial litigator with more than 20 years of experience resolving a wide range of domestic and cross-border disputes. His practice focuses on complex and high value litigation and investigations, with a focus on financial services disputes covering a variety of markets and products, including derivatives, asset backed securities, swaps, and bond issues. Ed represents financial institutions, funds, corporations, commodities traders, accountants, trustees, and individuals.

James Rogers

James Rogers is an international arbitration lawyer with a uniquely international practice, serving clients' needs across multiple jurisdictions and tailored to the relevant project, dispute and/or seat of arbitration. James’ experience extends across a broad range of industry sectors and includes corporate and commercial, technology, M&A, licensing and joint venture disputes. He has particular experience in the energy, mining, infrastructure, technology and construction sectors and significant recent experience in arbitration matters involving states and state-controlled entities.

Jason Yardley

Jason Yardley, Chair of the firm's London Litigation and Arbitration practice, is a leading lawyer with almost 30 years of international litigation and arbitration experience handling complex commercial disputes. Clients often turn to him to handle their most complex cross-border disputes involving multiple jurisdictions. Jason represents hedge funds, privately-owned groups and family offices, energy and telecommunications companies, and sovereign states.

Joanna Ludlam

Joanna Ludlam is co-chair of Baker McKenzie's Investigations, Compliance & Ethics practice. She has held this position since 2017, having previously led this group in the EMEA region. She is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution team in the London office, where she leads the Regulatory, Public & Media law team. Joanna has extensive experience in leading complex investigations and pioneering compliance initiatives. She advises clients, including the C-suite, on corporate criminal liability, regulatory compliance, and crisis and reputation management. She also prepares senior executives for appearances at public inquiries and Parliamentary Select Committee hearings. Her expertise in administrative and public law and public procurement law complements her investigations practice. Joanna co-authored the Firm's Connected Compliance thought leadership, which includes the world's first global compliance integration benchmarking tool. Joanna is also listed for Investigations in Who’s Who Legal and listed in Business Today’s Top Legal Eagles for Public Law. Joanna was the winner of the “Compliance Innovator of the Year for Connected Compliance” at the Women in Compliance Awards and the “Admin & Public UK Lawyer of the year” by ACQ5 in 2019. She was one of GIR's "Top 100 Women in Compliance” in 2018 and “Role Model in the HERoes Women Role Model Lists” in 2019. Joanna designed the Firm’s innovative Investigations Academy, a comprehensive, state-of-the-art training programme for investigations practitioners within the Firm’s team and clients. She is also a member of the leadership team for BakerWomen, a key Baker McKenzie D&I focus group. Joanna advises clients in the areas of administrative and public law, procurement law, litigation and investigations. She has particular experience in sectors including media, financial services, healthcare, technology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, professional services, and consumer goods. Joanna handles all kinds of high court litigation as well as investigations, including into issues of bribery, corruption and fraud. She advises clients, frequently at board-level, on regulatory compliance and crisis and reputation management. Joanna focuses on bringing practical solutions to client issues, and designed the Firm’s innovative Investigations Academy, a comprehensive and state-of-the-art training programme for investigations practitioners within the Firm team and our clients'.

Lizzie Shimmin

Clients call on Lizzie Shimmin to advise on their most complex disputes, whether in commercial litigation or international arbitration. Lizzie represents clients in disputes across a broad range of industry sectors, including in particular, financial services, energy, infrastructure and defense. She regularly acts on complex claims in proceedings before the English Court as well as arbitral tribunals. In addition, she also has considerable experience in the enforcement of unpaid judgments and awards in multiple jurisdictions.

Lucy Blake

With her strategic judgment and ability to uncover the facts fast, Lucy Blake helps clients investigate, respond to, recover from, and prevent all manner of wrongdoing. This includes bribery and other forms of white-collar crime, toxic workplace cultures, and ESG risks such as human rights and supply chain abuses. Lucy serves as a Co-Chair of the firm’s Human Rights and Global Strategy Practice. Corporate crises tend to be multi-faceted, and clients value Lucy’s ability to propose a cohesive strategy in “quarterbacking” simultaneous cross-border proceedings, such as internal and external investigations by a variety of prosecutors and regulators (including the SFO, FCA, and US DOJ) as well as litigation, parliamentary proceedings, and public inquiries.

Michaela Croft

Michaela Croft helps clients navigate complex multi-party disputes before the English courts and arbitral tribunals. Michaela advises companies and financial institutions regarding disputes in a broad range of matters, with a particular focus on contractual disputes, as well as fraud and economic tort claims, restructuring and contentious insolvency situations, and shareholder / joint venture disputes.

Rob Dalling

After more than a decade as a trial lawyer, prosecuting and defending in serious criminal cases, Rob Dalling now serves international companies in sectors including energy, extractive, financial services, medical, hospitality, and real estate across the United Kingdom, the European Union, the United States and beyond. With his extensive courtroom experience, Rob’s counsel is invaluable in internal and external investigations into misconduct. He advises companies on financial crime policies and procedures in areas including financial sanctions, anti-money laundering, and anti-bribery and corruption.

Ronan O’Reilly

Ronan O’Reilly represents clients before the English courts and international arbitral tribunals in disputes covering a variety of sectors including energy, defence, telecommunications, tech, mining, and financial services. He assists a broad range of clients including large corporations, states, state entities and hedge funds to resolve complex international disputes. Ronan helps his clients through all stages of a typical dispute resolution process, and his industry-acquired knowledge means he speaks the same language as his clients.

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