Experience

Angela has considerable experience advising both claimants and defendants in complex disputes. Notable examples include:

• a 16-week trial in the Commercial Court acting for a German bank involved in a dispute regarding credit swaps
• acting for a member of a royal family in relation to a complex jurisdictional challenge
• advising companies in relation to highly sensitive internal investigations

Career

Angela read law at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She spent over seven years as a qualified client-facing lawyer in the disputes team at Baker & McKenzie LLP. During that period, she was involved in a range of complex and high value commercial litigation cases. She also advised clients on a range of issues in relation to investigations, public law and arbitration. She has spent time in-house on secondments at the BBC Trust and at the Professional Standards Authority.

Angela joined Stewarts as a knowledge development lawyer in August 2019.

Expertise

Angela is a solicitor with over seven years’ post qualification experience in commercial disputes. She has a wide-ranging knowledge of issues in this sphere.

Publications

• “To stay or not to stay?: a question to the Commercial Court on considering section 9 of the Arbitration Act”
• “The recoverability of third party funding in arbitration”
• “Disposable documents – to redact or not to redact?”

Accreditations and Memberships

Association of Litigation Professional Support (ALPS)

Personal

Angela enjoys family time, regular trips back to the Emerald Isle and swimming.