Mona Vaswani > Milbank > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Milbank Offices
100 Liverpool Street
LONDON
EC2M 2AT
England
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Mona Vaswani
Position
Partner, Litigation & Arbitration
Career
Mona Vaswani advises on a variety of complex, cross-border, disputes and investigations, with an emphasis on banking litigation, fraud and asset tracing claims as well as trust litigation. She has also conducted arbitrations in the LCIA.
Mona has acted for a number of leading international and investment banks on a wide range of banking and regulatory disputes and investigations in England. She also has substantial experience of advising banks and trustees in the conduct of trust litigation in several jurisdictions. Mona has litigated in many of the major offshore jurisdictions, including, Jersey, Guernsey, the Cayman Islands and the BVI.
Mona has acted in various claims in the High Court, in the finance sector, including those involving allegations of fraud, constructive trust and breach of fiduciary duty and has also acted in international arbitrations concerning derivatives disputes and has experience of conducting internal inquiries and investigations for a number of corporate and banking clients.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
(Hall of Fame)Milbank is home to Mona Vaswani, a ‘market leading partner in fraud work‘ who serves as a key port of call for a number of international and investment banks. Found among her workload are fraud, asset tracing, trust and breach of fiduciary duty claims, among other proceedings.
London > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
Milbank has a ‘growing team of commercial litigators, with a particular emphasis on fraud claims’, and are seen as ‘great at large team litigation’. The team’s strengths are exemplified by its work for Visa on significant interchange litigation over the last decade. Julian Stait does a ‘huge proportion of the work for Visa’ and leads the team that consists of ‘incisive, results-oriented’ Mona Vaswani and ‘future star’ Conrad Marinkovic.
London > Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
(Leading partners)Milbank boasts a team that ‘leverages its unique abilities and insights’ to lead on high-profile and complex competition law disputes and investigations, with particular expertise in loan and bond-related transactional disputes. Julian Stait leads the team, notably representing Visa and Rabobank in relation to interchange litigation and Libor manipulation matters. ‘Superb banking specialist’ Mona Vaswani is integral to the team, and is a ‘formidable and determined opponent’. Also highly active in the practice are Tom Canning, who provides ‘excellent, practical advice’ for clients, and Peter Edworthy.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Leading partners London > Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Banking litigation: investment and retail London > Dispute resolution
- Fraud: civil London > Crime, fraud and licensing
- Commercial litigation: premium London > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Transport > Aviation
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Finance > Securitisation
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium