London Bar
Commercial litigation
Leading junior5Stephanie Wood – One Essex Court 'She is very bright and hard-working. She also writes very well and has deep knowledge of the law and how best to deploy it. Very impressive.'
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Stephanie Wood
One Essex Court, London
Position
Stephanie has a broad commercial practice, including litigation and international arbitration. Stephanie has experience acting in a range of complex, high value cases including in the areas of banking and financial services, civil fraud, competition law and professional negligence, amongst others. Stephanie has appeared led and unled in the High Court, as well as conducting hearings in the County Court.
Recent and notable instructions include:
Phones 4U Ltd (in administration) v EE Limited & Ors: For the Claimant in a 10-week trial in summer 2022 of an Article 101 TFEU claim against EE, Vodafone and O2 and their parent companies arising from alleged cartel conduct between those companies that caused Phones4u to cease trading and enter into administration in 2014.
Municipio de Mariana v BHP [2020] EWHC 2930 (TCC): For the Defendants in an 8-day jurisdiction challenge and strike out application against a group action brought by over 200,000 claimants arising out of the collapse of the Fundão Dam in Brazil
DuPont Pension Trust v Yuksel Insaat AS: For the claimants in a deceit claim in the Commercial Court brought by international investors against a Turkish construction company and its directors in connection with failed financial restructuring.
AssetCo plc v. Grant Thornton LLP UK LLP [2019] EWHC 150 (Comm); [2019] EWHC 191 (Comm), [2019] EWHC 592 (Comm) and [2020] EWCA Civ 1151: For the defendant in an audit negligence claim in the Commercial Court, and on appeal in the Court of Appeal. The claims gave rise to questions of: duties owed by auditors, the 'loss of a chance' doctrine, intervening acts and the 'very thing' principle, and issues of contributory fault.
VR Partners v Exotix v CVI [2017] EWHC 2620 (Comm): For the Third Party investment fund in an 8-day Commercial Court trial concerning the construction of a back-to-back trade of valuable Ukrainian loan interests and entitlement to unwind said trade.
Career
Call 2014
Languages
French
Education
City Law School: BPTC [2013 - 2014]
University of Oxford: BCL (Conflict of Laws, Corporate Finance Law, Competition Law and Principles of Financial Regulation) [2012 - 2013]
University of Oxford: BA (Jurisprudence) (First Class Honours) [2009 - 2012]
University of Melbourne: BComm (Finance) [2006 - 2009]