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Anna Scharnetzky
Position
Anna specialises in company law, corporate insolvency and corporate finance, as well as related areas of commercial law. Her practice is divided approximately equally between advisory work and litigation. She has a particular interest in work with a cross-border element. Anna undertakes a mixture of high value, complex led work alongside unled work. She regularly appears in the High Court and before the ICC Judges (formerly Registrars) in the Companies Court. Her matters often involve applications for interim relief, including injunctions and freezing orders.
Career
Called 2011(Gray’s Inn)
Languages
Anna is a bilingual German speaker and also qualified as a lawyer in Germany.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR.
Education
2006 – 2009 BA (Hons) in Law, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
James William Squire Scholarship (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge)
Avory Scholarship (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)
2009 – 2010 LLM (Distinction), University College London
2010 – 2011 BPTC (Very Competent), Kaplan Law School
The Bacon Award (Gray’s Inn)
Avory Studentship (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Company
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5Anna Scharnetzky – Erskine Chambers ‘Anna’s technical analysis of complex areas of law is first-rate and her contributions are invaluable.’
London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Anna Scharnetzky – Erskine Chambers ‘Extremely effective, incisive, thorough, inspires complete confidence and always delivers.’
Erskine Chambers handles both contentious insolvency and corporate restructurings, with members acting on litigation arising from large insolvencies in the wake of the financial crisis, with Peter Arden KC having been instructed by a creditor in Re Project Lietzenburger Strasse Holdco S.A.R.L to oppose a restructuring plan proposed by a Luxembourg company, covering aspects of German law. Raquel Agnello KC has been involved in a number of high-profile cases, and covers restructuring based matters, including CVAs and acting for various businesses. Matthew Parfitt sits as a deputy insolvency judge and has a focus on public interest winding up, and the appointment of provisional liquidators, and Anna Scharnetzky is frequently instructed in contentious restructurings and claims brought by or against office-holders.