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Anna Scharnetzky

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)

Mentions

The English Bar Offshore

Commercial disputes

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Anna Scharnetzky – Erskine Chambers ‘Anna is excellent to work with. Her input on strategic considerations is invaluable. She is prompt, responsive and thorough when her input is needed.’
London Bar

Company

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Anna Scharnetzky – Erskine Chambers 'Anna’s technical analysis of complex areas of law is first-rate and her contributions are invaluable.'
London Bar

Insolvency

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Anna Scharnetzky – Erskine Chambers 'Extremely effective, incisive, thorough, inspires complete confidence and always delivers.'