Charlotte is a litigator in Mishcon Private advising clients on a range of complex and often multi-jurisdictional disputes, with a focus on reputation and crisis management. She advises on defamation, breach of confidence, privacy, data protection and harassment issues, in addition to more general disputes work.
Charlotte assists clients preparing to face public scrutiny, including designing crisis response protocols to anticipate and manage evolving situations. She is adept at working alongside other advisors, including PR and communications specialists, to provide holistic support to her clients. She acts for a wide variety of international and UK based clients, including individuals, corporates and charities. She has a broad practice – frequently engaging with the media pre- and post-publication while also providing training to journalists and providing pre-content clearance advice.
Charlotte is also a legal mentor for SPITE (Sharing and Publishing Images to Embarrass), a pro bono project that advises victims of revenge porn. She is also part of Mishcon's Education Group, advising educational institutions and individuals on crisis management, safeguarding, complaints, exclusions and discrimination.
Before joining Mishcon de Reya, Charlotte spent five years at a Magic Circle firm and specialised in financial crises. She has also completed secondments to Oxfam and Liberty (National Council for Civil Liberties).
Key Experience
- Engaging with media pre- and post-publication, frequently stopping bad stories and securing appropriate removals, corrections and apologies.
- Carrying out reputational audits for high profile and high net worth individuals and liaising with immigration authorities, banks and compliance databases.
- Engaging with search engines and compliance database profiles to help clients exercise their data protection rights.
- Advising clients preparing to face public scrutiny, including designing crisis response protocols to anticipate and manage evolving situations.
- Providing pre-publication advice to media organisations and delivering training sessions to journalists.
- Acting in a multi-billion-pound dispute for high-net worth individuals in a highly contested global fraud and estate matter across numerous jurisdictions.
- Advising clients who have had intimate images shared without their consent.
- Advising students and professors on disputes with schools and universities.
- Acting on high-profile complex cross-border restructurings and insolvencies including acting for: the Arcadia Group on the entry of 27 group companies into administration followed by advising the joint administrators of the companies; the Official Receiver as liquidator and PwC as special managers on the compulsory liquidation of Carillion; and the join administrators of Monarch Airlines following their appointment in 2017.
Articles and Publications
Career History
Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Legal Secondee, Liberty (National Council of Civil Liberties)
Legal Secondee, Oxfam
Trainee, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
BPP, LPC
BPP, GDL
University of Cambridge, History