Anna Markham is a specialist in company, commercial, financial services and insolvency law, with a busy caseload of litigation and advisory work. She has conducted a wide range of cases including commercial, banking and investor litigation, shareholder disputes and claims by and against officeholders. She also has particular expertise – as a former member of the Attorney General’s civil panel of Counsel (2002-2009) – in conducting litigation for and against Government departments (including directors’ disqualification proceedings). A sophisticated and hard-hitting advocate, Anna is known for her outstanding grasp of the technical detail, underpinned by her previous training as a chartered accountant at Arthur Andersen.

Anna has contributed to Annotated Companies Legislation (3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2013) and Butterworths Practical Insolvency. She is an author of “Litigation in the Time of Covid-19”, an e-book covering the latest legal developments in 4 Stone Buildings’ areas of practice, and a contributor to Practical Law Corporate.

Qualified ACA 1994; called 1996, Lincoln’s Inn (scholar). Contributor ‘Butterworths Practical Insolvency’, OUP’s ‘Annotated Companies Acts’ and the forthcoming 4th edition of Walters & Davis-White ‘Directors Disqualification and Insolvency Restrictions’.

French, German.

ACA, 1995. ADR Group accredited civil and commercial mediator, 2013. Member of COMBAR. Member of the Chancery Bar Association (and, since July 2019, its Honorary Secretary).

Oakham School (Wanstall Scholar); Westminster School; Worcester College, Oxford (MA Philosophy, Politics & Economics, Scholar).