Dechert LLP

Commercial Disputes

Partner

Dorothy Cory-Wright is a highly experienced lawyer advising on complex commercial litigation, arbitration, alternative dispute resolution and contentious regulatory issues including monitorships. She works with her clients in regulatory and internal investigations, including advising on corporate self-governance programs. Her cases are frequently multi-jurisdictional, critical to her clients and often involve issues of global market importance. Ms. Cory-Wright's practice spans many sectors including financial services with clients across the panoply including banks, funds, private equity houses, insurers and reinsurers, also manufacturing, life sciences, energy and sport among others. She has particular experience in litigating disputes over new complex financial products and issues arising in restructuring and insolvencies. Having trained and practiced as a Barrister and now a Solicitor-Advocate, Dorothy regularly performs the advocacy in her matters. In addition to her legal skills, knowledge of procedure of both the English High Court and arbitration and how these can be employed to clients’ tactical advantage commercial acumen and strategic approach are key to resolving disputes to clients’ satisfaction. Dorothy has litigated and arbitrated in the United States and Bermuda. She writes and lectures both in the UK and overseas and takes arbitrator appointments.

English

England and Wales, Solicitor-Advocate – Higher Courts – Civil Proceedings Solicitor, England and Wales Member of ArbitralWomen – The International Network of Women in Dispute Resolution

University of London, LL.B, 1982