Barristers

Bianca Venkata

Bianca Venkata

Work Department

Employment and Discrimination, Probate, Commercial and Chancery, Financial Services, Insolvency and Restructuring, Pensions, Public Law, Business Crime and Regulatory

Position

Barrister specialising in private client & trusts, pensionsemployment & discriminationfinancial services, insolvency, and international related matters.

Career

Bianca was called to the bar in 2014.

Prior to starting pupillage, Bianca was a judicial assistant to the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas at the Court of Appeal from April to July 2014. She was a research assistant at the Law Commission in the Common Law and Commercial Team in 2013-2014. She undertook a stage at the European Court of Human Rights in 2012.

Bianca accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ practice including pensions, commercial litigation, probate, employment & discrimination, financial services, and international related matters.

Bianca is noted by Legal 500 as a Rising Star for her employment work.

Her advocacy experience includes High Court and Employment Appeal Tribunal hearings, County Court hearings and multiday Employment Tribunal work.

She is a former solicitor, having qualified at Magic Circle firm Slaughter and May in 2012. Prior to starting pupillage, Bianca was a judicial assistant to the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas at the Court of Appeal from April to July 2014. She was a research assistant at the Law Commission in the Common Law and Commercial Team in 2013-2014. She undertook a stage at the European Court of Human Rights in 2012.

Bianca is licensed to undertake public access work.

Languages

Bianca speaks fluent German, advanced French and elementary Brazilian Portuguese.

Memberships

Associate Member of the Association of Pension Lawyers (“APL”) Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) Commercial Bar Association Chancery Bar Association Contentious Trusts Association R3 member Employment Law Bar Association Financial Services Law Association London Very Young Arbitration Practitioners

Education

BCL from Lincoln College, University of Oxford First-class law degree from the University of Manchester