Avocats en Commercial Litigation

Carmine Zarlenga

Partner

Mayer Brown

CaroLea Casas

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Carolina Hagemann

Associate

Baker McKenzie Chile

Caroline Brown

Caroline is a Partner in our Dispute Resolution team with many years' experience in advising on high profile, high value commercial disputes. She specialises in professional negligence claims, particularly on behalf of lenders against surveyors and solicitors; banking and finance disputes; and complex contractual claims. She has extensive experience in advising financial institutions, including traditional and specialist lenders; and regularly advises on cross-border issues. Caroline has a particular focus on the strategic management of multi-claims litigation, having advised both claimants and defendants in dealing with portfolios of high value, linked claims. High profile contract claims: Leading a very high value (£hundreds of millions) portfolio of high profile contract claims concerning the supply of goods, including advice on contract interpretation, misrepresentation and insolvency. Reputation-critical claims: Managing and advising on the defence of a £multi million portfolio of reputation-critical claims in misrepresentation and contract. International financial services business: Advising on the recovery of funds held with a fintech provider, including advice on contentious insolvency and fraud issues. Advising a lender in respect of a very high value group of negligence claims against a leading valuer. Private bank: Advising on complex, sensitive fraud and insolvency issues.

Burges Salmon LLP

Caroline Callahan

Counsel

Offit Kurman

Caroline Moran

Caroline is Global Co-Head of Maples and Calder’s global Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team and is based in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. Caroline advises on all aspects of cross border and domestic insolvency and restructuring issues, in particular contentious and non-contentious restructurings, liquidations, schemes of arrangement and fund wind downs. She advises debtors and key stakeholders in financially distressed circumstances, including banks, funds, bondholders, directors, investors and insolvency practitioners. Caroline also has extensive commercial litigation experience in financial services disputes including appraisal rights/fair value cases and shareholder, board and investment funds disputes. She is an experienced advocate, who regularly appears in the Cayman Islands courts.

Maples Group

Caroline Suydam

Counsel

Balch & Bingham LLP

Carolyn Chiang

Associate

Lim Chee Wee Partnership

Cary R. Perlman

Partner

Latham & Watkins

Casey Watkins

Of Counsel

Ballard Spahr LLP

Catherine Beideman Heitzenrater

Partner

Duane Morris LLP

Catherine Bembrick

5 Wentworth Chambers

Catherine Derrig

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Catherine Eason

Catherine was promoted to Partner in 2023. She has extensive experience in large scale fraud cases and asset recovery and is an up-and-coming leader in the area. Catherine has been involved in a number of the firm’s largest and most high-profile cases, and acts for a range of clients from around the world, including high-net-worth individuals, banks and sovereign states. She has a breath of experience in both obtaining and resisting urgent injunctive relief, as well managing significant cases through to trial and enforcement. Catherine joined PCB Litigation (as it then was) in November 2017 after working in the litigation team of a large UK bank, advising on banking and general commercial issues. Prior to that Catherine was a civil litigator and Crown prosecutor for the Office of the Crown Solicitor, Auckland. She also has experience in regulatory prosecution and has conducted jury trials and other criminal hearings. Catherine was admitted to the bar in New Zealand in 2013 and is enrolled as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. She has acted and appeared as both junior and sole counsel in the New Zealand District Court, High Court and Court of Appeal. Catherine holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Politics from the University of Otago, and spent a semester studying at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.

PCB Byrne

Catherine G. Dearlove

Catherine Dearlove, director at Richards, Layton & Finger, represents Delaware corporations, LLCs, limited partnerships, and their officers, directors, and managers in M&A disputes, derivative and class actions, and corporate control disputes. Catherine’s clients also rely on her advice regarding complex corporate governance and fiduciary issues. In addition, Catherine advises special committees in internal investigations and transactional matters, has served as a party-appointed neutral arbitrator, and has testified as an expert witness on Delaware corporate law issues. Catherine is a frequent panelist and speaker at professional conferences addressing issues of Delaware corporate law and governance and has published articles and book chapters on current topics in Delaware corporate law. Practices Investigative & Demand Committees Arbitration & Mediation Corporate & Chancery Litigation Corporate Transactions Corporate Governance Mergers & Acquisitions Limited Liability Company & Partnership Advisory Commercial Litigation

Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Catherine Gannon

Managing Partner

Gannons Commercial Law Limited

Catherine Haugh

Catherine is highly experienced at resolving commercial disputes of all kinds, many of which are complex, high value and/or commercially sensitive. Her practice encompasses breach of contract claims, director/shareholder disputes, public procurement claims and negligence. She acts for corporate and individual clients in both the private and public sector, including utilities and logistics companies, local Government departments, retailers, individual shareholders/directors, technology companies and partnerships. Catherine has considerable experience of litigating in the various divisions of the High Court and the Court of Appeal, and also regularly acts for clients in arbitrations and mediations. Catherine recognises that no two disputes are the same, and she works with her clients to understand their commercial objectives and then build a strategy designed to achieve those objectives as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

Foot Anstey

Catherine Penny

Partner specialising in general commercial litigation and international arbitration. Particular interest in life sciences focused disputes, including regulatory aspects, as well as disputes arising from corporate transactions including warranty claims and earn-out disputes.

Stevens & Bolton LLP

Catherine Percy

Catherine is an experienced insurance partner and commercial dispute resolution expert who specialises in litigation, arbitration and mediation. She has expertise in property insurance coverage and adjustment disputes, casualty claims, competition litigation and damages claims involving the pharmaceutical sector in the UK. Catherine frequently acts for global insurers and reinsurers, UK health service providers, policyholders, captives, and commercial entities.

RPC

Cathrine Castaldi

Partner

Brown Rudnick LLP

Catriona Gibson

Chair, Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution Group, Northern Ireland

Arthur Cox Belfast

Cavinder Bull SC

Cavinder is the Chief Executive Officer of Drew & Napier. He has an active practice in complex litigation and international arbitration. He is engaged in trial and appellate advocacy at all levels of the Singapore Courts and has appeared as counsel in international arbitration in various countries. He is also co-head of the Competition Law & Regulatory Practice. Cavinder graduated with First Class Honours in law from Oxford University in 1992. He was called to the Bar of England & Wales the following year, placing fourth in the Bar examinations. He returned to Singapore and passed the Singapore Bar exams, winning the prize for top candidate. Cavinder worked for the Chief Justice of Singapore as a Justices' Law Clerk before joining Drew & Napier in 1994 as a litigation associate. In 1995, he was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship and left for Harvard Law School where he received an LL.M. He passed the New York Bar exams and was admitted to practice in New York. Cavinder practised as a litigation associate with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York until late 1997 when he returned to Singapore and Drew & Napier. He was made a partner of Drew & Napier in 1998 and a Director of the firm in May 2002. He was appointed Senior Counsel by the Chief Justice of Singapore in 2008, one of a handful to have been accorded the honour before the age of 40. Cavinder is on the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), is Vice-President of the Court of Arbitration of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and on the Advisory Board of the AFSA International Arbitration Rules Drafting Committee. He was a member of the World Bank Sanctions Board from 2018 to 2023, a former Vice-President of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group, and served as Chairman of the Singapore Stock Exchange’s Disciplinary Committee from 2017 to 2023. He was also a member of the Securities and Industries Council from 2016 to 2022. Cavinder was a member on the inaugural Disciplinary Tribunal of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Practice Areas: Administrative & Public Law Arbitration Banking & Finance Commercial Litigation Competition Law & Regulatory Practice Construction & Engineering Corporate Litigation Financial Services Regulation Hotels & Leisure India Desk International Arbitration Public International Law SICC Expertise Sports Telecommunications, Media & Technology

Drew & Napier LLC

Cecile PELTIER-GAUCI

Cecile Peltier-Gauci is Managing Associate in charge of the Real Estate department in Zabaldano Lawyers in Monaco. She has over 22 years of experience in Monegasque law and acts for international and local clients including banks, promoters, constructors, real estate companies, landlords and tenants and insurance companies. Cecile has acquired a solid experience in civil and commercial litigation as well as real estate matters, with a particular focus on construction, real estate development and commercial leases. Her experience includes notably securitisation and enforcement proceedings, drafting and negotiating leases, as well as all types of civil or administrative real estate litigations.

ZABALDANO AVOCATS

Cecilia Carrara

Partner

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