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”

Accreditations and Memberships

Association of Litigation Professional Support (ALPS)

Personal

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