Barrister specialising in general commercial work, including banking and financial services, insurance, professional negligence, civil and commercial fraud and company law. Lisa’s background working as a banking solicitor in a leading global law firm and in the structured products team of a bank, means that she has particular experience of syndicated lending, securitisations and complex derivatives instruments. Lisa has acted as both a junior and sole counsel in numerous high value claims relating to the mis-selling of interest rate hedging products and structured foreign exchange products. Lisa also regularly acts for banks and other mortgage lenders on professional negligence claims in the property finance context, including claims against solicitors and valuers relating to the overvaluation of commercial property developments and solicitors’ duties of care in this context.  She has particular expertise in title rectification cases relating to mortgages and regularly represents lenders in the Lands Tribunal and in the High Court. Lisa also has a great deal of experience acting for applicants and respondents on urgent injunction applications, including for freezing orders and search and seizure orders.

Called 2004; Gray’s Inn; previously practiced as a solicitor in the banking group of Linklaters LLP, London and as a commercial attorney in South Africa.

University of Cape Town (B Bus Sc (Hons); LLB (magna cum laude)); Cambridge University (LLM) (First).