Grace is a Managing Associate in the Finance & Banking Disputes team and a member of the Commercial Litigation group. She specialises in complex financial service disputes, general commercial disputes and civil fraud claims.
Grace has experience working on a wide variety of disputes for both individual and corporate clients including forex manipulation, prime brokerage, interest rates swaps, breach of contract and authorised push payment fraud. She has significant litigation and trial experience, and her practice also includes pre-action confidential dispute resolution including advice regarding the unreasonable withdrawal of banking services.
Grace is a member of the Young Fraud Lawyers Association. She is also part of the firm's Sports Sector Group and Gender Working Group.
Key Experience
- Representing The ECU Group plc in proceedings against various HSBC entities for unlawful trading practices, specifically front running, the unlawful addition of mark-ups on forex orders and the misuse of confidential information. The case was named in The Lawyer's Top 20 Cases of 2021.
- Acting for a financial services firm against a prime broker for breach of duty in relation to disputed margin calls.
- Acting for Cayman based companies in High Court litigation against a financial services company for knowing receipt of funds gained from a Ponzi-style fraudulent trading scheme.
- Representing individual clients in relation to the mis-selling of interest rate hedging products by their bank.
Career History
Managing Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Trainee Solicitor, Mishcon de Reya LLP
BPP Law School, GDL and LPC
University of Stirling, BA Hons in Law and History