Lara has a commercial Chancery practice, which encompasses all aspects of commercial litigation and arbitration, property litigation, company law and insolvency matters.

She is ranked as a leading junior barrister in two practice areas (Commercial Litigation and Property Litigation) by the Legal 500 and she is recommended for Real Estate Litigation by Chambers and Partners.

The legal directories describe Lara as “an intelligent tactician”; “determined, tenacious and gets to the heart of an issue with practical solutions”; “incredibly diligent”; “a bright and hardworking junior with a good grasp of company law and a zest for commercial litigation. Her pleadings are excellent and she is an assured performer in court”; and “bright, thorough, responsive and very easy to work with. She adds value to all that she has been asked to assist with”. Previous editions have said that she “covers every angle and has brilliant drafting abilities”.

Lara is highly regarded for her advocacy and regularly appears (unled) against senior juniors or KCs. She represents clients in Court litigation and arbitrations in England and internationally in disputes relating to a range of industry sectors, frequently with a technological focus. Her clients include corporations, insolvency office holders, litigation funders, company directors, private individuals and the UK Government.

Lara is on the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown and represents the Government in commercial, property, company and insolvency matters.

Lara is called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands and has previously been admitted to the Bar of the Cayman Islands.

Before transferring to the English Bar, Lara was a solicitor in the London commercial disputes team of two US firms: Weil, Gotshal & Manges and McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP. Between 2013 and 2015, Lara practised as a Cayman Islands attorney in the Dispute Resolution and Insolvency group at Maples and Calder.

Year of Call: 2012.

Chancery Bar Association Property Bar Association COMBAR (The Commercial Bar Association)

LLB (Hons), Durham University LLM Corporate and Commercial Law, King’s College London Diploma in International Arbitration, CIArb