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Aimee Cook

Aimee is a Principal Associate in Shoosmiths' Dispute Resolution team, based in the Thames Valley. Aimee advises clients on complex, high value commercial disputes, acting for clients primarily in the Energy, Technology, Logistics and Automotive sectors. Aimee acts on cases in the English High Court and has experience of commercial and investor-state arbitration, and mediation. Aimee's experience is particularly focused on: outsourcing disputes; corporate and shareholder disputes; procurement challenges; and restrictive covenant disputes. Recent work includes: acting for a major communications company to successfully negotiate a pre-action settlement of a multi-million pound outsourcing dispute; acting for the defendant company in a substantial High Court claim regarding alleged breaches of a shareholder agreement (successfully settled pre-trial); successfully protecting the interests of various pharmaceutical clients in respect of procurement challenges; and successfully avoiding a potential injunction in respect of alleged breaches by the clients of restrictive covenants in an employment contract. · Shoosmiths LLP

EnglandDispute Resolution, Commercial Litigation

About

Aimee Cook is a Principal Associate in Shoosmiths LLP's Dispute Resolution team based in the Thames Valley, advising on complex, high-value commercial disputes for clients primarily in the Energy, Technology, Logistics and Automotive sectors. She acts in the English High Court and has experience of commercial and investor-state arbitration and mediation, with particular focus on outsourcing, corporate and shareholder, procurement and restrictive covenant disputes; she trained and practised in the City from 2010–2017, has practised in the Thames Valley since 2018, and joined Shoosmiths in 2022.

Practice areas

Dispute ResolutionCommercial LitigationInternational ArbitrationMediationCorporate / M&APublic ProcurementEmployment

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Expertise

EnergyTechnologyLogisticsAutomotiveOutsourcing DisputesCorporate and Shareholder DisputesProcurement ChallengesRestrictive Covenant Disputes

Education

  • Law with French, University of Sheffield
  • Law with French, University of Geneva