Alyssa has a broad commercial practice and has been instructed in a number of high-profile recent cases, including ENRC v Dechert LLP, Neil Gerrard, and the SFO (one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2021) and PrivatBank v Kolomoisky, Bogolyubov & Ors (one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2022). She has a particular interest in civil fraud, banking matters and knotty contractual issues. Alyssa enjoys working as sole counsel or as part of a larger team.
Last year, Alyssa acted for Mr Bogolyubov (with Clare Montgomery KC and Nathaniel Bird) in the 13-week trial of PrivatBank v Kolomoisky, Bogolyubov & Ors. The claim concerned allegations that the defendants misappropriated c.US$2bn from the Ukrainian bank, PrivatBank. The trial took place against the background of the war in Ukraine, which necessitated an adjournment from 2022 to 2023.
In 2021, Alyssa successfully represented ENRC in the 12-week trial of its claims against Dechert LLP (including claims for serious breaches of fiduciary duty) and the SFO (including claims for inducing breach of contract. Alyssa was part of a team of nine counsel (with Clare Montgomery KC, Nathan Pillow KC, Anna Boase KC, Tim Akkouh, James MacDonald KC, Jack Rivett, Freddie Popplewell and Matthew Hoyle). A summary of the judgment can be found here. Alyssa continues to act for ENRC in the next phase of the proceedings.
Alyssa takes a particular interest in diversity of recruitment to the Bar. She is a member of the Pupillage Committee and participates in One Essex Court’s “Women at the Commercial Bar” programme. She is also an executive committee member of Junior COMBAR.
From October 2018 to March 2019, Alyssa spent five months as a Judicial Assistant in the Commercial Court, where she worked on cases such as Marme Inversiones 2007 SL v Natwest Markets Plc [2019] EWHC 366 (Comm) (Picken J), Tugushev v Orlov [2019] EWHC 645 (Comm) (Carr J) and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited v ING Bank N.V. [2019] EWHC 676 (Comm) (Moulder J).
Alyssa was a Teaching Fellow in Contract Law at UCL from 2016-2017.
COMBAR (including as a member of the executive committee of Junior COMBAR) Gray’s Inn (called 2017)
University of Oxford (2011-2015), BA Jurisprudence with Law Studies in Europe (French Law) (First Class Honours, ranked third in year)
Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II (2013-2014), Certificat Supérieur de Droit Français.
University of Oxford (2015-2016), Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction)
BPP Law School London (2016-2017), BPTC (Outstanding, Top of Year)