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Lucy Blake helps clients prevent, investigate, respond to and recover from all manner of wrongdoing. This includes bribery, fraud, and money laundering as well as non-financial misconduct, including toxic workplace cultures, and “ESG” risks arising from human rights and climate impacts in companies’ supply chains. Lucy is a co-chair of the firm’s Human Rights and Global Strategy Practice. Lucy frequently advises on multi-jurisdictional issues involving conflicts of laws and divergent legal, commercial, reputational, and political risks. These include ESG, anti-corruption and DEI compliance as well as parallel cross-border investigations by prosecutors and regulators including the SFO, FCA, and US DOJ.

Christine Braamskamp

Christine Braamskamp serves as Managing Partner in the London office and co-leads the firm’s Investigations, Compliance, and Defense team, as well as the firm’s Culture Risk and Sensitive Investigations team. A former barrister, Christine leads highly complex criminal, reputational, and regulatory matters. Christine’s practice spans a range of industries and areas. Formerly called to the Bar in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, she brings her diverse and international civil and common law experience to a range of compliance, investigation, and white-collar defense matters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As chair of the London Public Law and Crisis Management Practice, and co-chair of the firm’s Global Hearings Preparation and Global Crisis Management and Strategic Risk Practices, Joanna Ludlam brings a unique skill set and steady guidance to clients facing sensitive, high stakes matters. Joanna advises major corporations, regulators, and public bodies on complex issues spanning administrative and public law, contentious regulatory investigations, and corporate crime—often involving bribery, fraud, tax evasion, and anti-money laundering—underpinned by her expertise in reputation and risk management. Joanna’s strategic, level-headed approach offers clear direction in moments of intense public and legal pressure. She counsels C-suite executives and boards on corporate criminal liability, regulatory compliance, and reputational issues, frequently preparing them for appearances before public inquiries and Parliamentary Select Committees. Known for her deft handling of investigations, challenging government and regulatory decisions, workplace misconduct cases, and crisis management, Joanna also assists clients in navigating data regulatory defense and ESG risks.

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.

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.

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.

Christian Tuddenham

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.

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.