Courtney Grafton

Arbitrationbanking and financial servicescivil fraud and asset tracingcommodities and international tradecompany lawenergy and infrastructureeu & competitioninsolvency and restructuringjurisdiction, conflicts and enforcementpublic and administrative lawpublic international lawshipping, Twenty Essex

Work Department

Arbitration Banking and financial services Civil fraud and asset tracing Commodities and international trade Company law Energy and infrastructure EU & Competition Insolvency and restructuring Jurisdiction, conflicts and enforcement Public and administrative law Public international law Shipping

Position

Courtney has developed a broad practice in commercial litigation, international arbitration and public international law. Courtney is instructed on a broad spectrum of litigation in the English courts and in international arbitrations under a variety of institutional rules, and she regularly advises the UK Government on a range of public international law issues.

Before joining Twenty Essex, Courtney qualified as a solicitor-advocate and worked at a leading Wall Street firm. Courtney was also an Assistant Legal Adviser at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, where she advised on urgent issues arising in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Courtney also served as a Judicial Assistant to Lord Hodge and Lord Lloyd-Jones at the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, where she worked on over 40 cases.

Education

University of Cambridge: LLM (2018) Kaplan Law School: Legal Practice Course (2015) BPP Law School: Graduate Diploma in Law (2014) London School of Economics and Political Science: MSc in History of International Relations (2013) Yale University: BA in History (2012)