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Elisa Wahnon

Elisa assists with a broad range of complex, high-value commercial disputes. She is part of the Securities Litigation team at Stewarts and works on a number of statutory shareholder group actions. She also has a keen interest in ESG litigation. Elisa works on high-value group litigation including statutory claims (s.90 and s. 90A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) and tax-related group actions. She also has experience across a number of areas including shareholder and contractual disputes, insolvency claims against directors, enforcement, fraud, and professional negligence. Elisa’s clients include global companies, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, private and public pension funds, liquidators and high net worth individuals. She works on both domestic and multi-jurisdictional disputes. Experience Acting for a number of institutional investors including asset managers and sovereign wealth funds in a s.90 FSMA claim against a multinational commodity trading and mining company. Acting for a number of institutional investors in a s.90A FSMA claim against an international energy services company. Acting for over 100 high net worth investors in a film finance scheme in a professional negligence claim against HSBC. Advising the liquidator of a forex trading company in bringing claims against former directors for misfeasance and wrongful and fraudulent trading. Advising entrepreneurs in a minority shareholder dispute. · Stewarts Law LLP

EnglandSecurities Litigation, Group Litigation

About

Elisa is part of the Securities Litigation team at Stewarts and assists with a broad range of complex, high‑value commercial and group litigation. She works on statutory shareholder group actions (including s.90 and s.90A FSMA claims), tax-related group actions, shareholder and contractual disputes, insolvency claims, enforcement, fraud and professional negligence, and acts for institutional and private clients in domestic and multi‑jurisdictional disputes.

Practice areas

Securities LitigationGroup LitigationCommercial LitigationShareholder DisputesInsolvencyProfessional NegligenceFraudESG Litigation

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Expertise

Institutional InvestorsAsset ManagersSovereign Wealth FundsPension FundsLiquidatorsHigh Net Worth IndividualsFilm FinanceCross‑border / Multi‑jurisdictional disputes

Education

  • University of Warwick
  • Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)
  • Legal Practice Course (LPC)