Clara specialises in domestic and cross-border Restructuring and Insolvency, Civil Fraud and Company law and has been recommended as a leading junior in Restructuring and Insolvency, and Offshore for a number of years.

Clara is frequently instructed to act for companies, office holders, directors, creditors and individual debtors in all aspects of corporate and personal insolvency and restructuring.  She has been instructed in respect of numerous high profile cases including McDermott, Hong Kong Airlines, Empire Cinemas, Babylon, Mothercare, BHS, the Bell Group, Marme Inversiones and BetIndex.  

She has particular experience of provisional liquidations, and of cases where urgent injunctive relief is required, most often, freezing or asset preservation orders, freezing orders against third parties under the Chabra jurisdiction, search orders, orders for disclosure in relation to the whereabouts of assets or the tracing of funds under section 236 of the Insolvency Act and the Bankers Trust jurisdiction.  Clara is frequently instructed on cases which have cross-border elements and acts for foreign office holders in respect of offshore insolvencies.

Clara’s civil fraud practice has particular emphasis on multijurisdictional claims in a range of civil and commercial contexts.  Clara also regularly acts in shareholder and company law disputes, including claims against directors, unfair prejudice petitions, winding up petitions and derivative claims.

She is commended in the legal directories for “having total command of her subject area, including all of its darker recesses.  She uses that knowledge to produce excellent strategic insight” as well as being “excellent on her feet” and “well-liked by clients”.

Called to the Bar in 2005

London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association

2003    UCL – Masters in Legal and Political Philosophy (Distinction)

2001    University College, Oxford, BA (Honours) Politics, Philosophy and Politics (2:1)