Overview
Elenor is a commercial litigator based in London who has acted on a number of the most complex and high-profile restructuring and insolvency cases in recent years advising insolvency practitioners. Her practice also covers complex litigation matters for financial services clients and reputationally sensitive investigations (internal, SFO and Ofgem) for market leading corporates across the consumer, energy and defence sectors.
Elenor frequently works in close collaboration with lawyers from the firm’s other market-leading practice areas, including Restructuring and Insolvency, Energy & Infrastructure, TMT, Employment & Incentives, Financial Regulation Group and Corporate.
Work highlights
Elenor has advised on a number of market-leading mandates. These include acting for:
- Thames Water on its successful Part 26A restructuring plan in the High Court and Court of Appeal.
- Bulb’s energy administrators in the first ever use of the special administration regime for energy supply companies.
- Lehman Brothers’ administrators in the UK.
- Beaufort Securities’ administrators in the investment bank special administration.
- Praesidiad on its recapitalisation transaction implemented via an English Scheme of Arrangement in the High Court.
- Global Energy Company in the defence of regulatory enforcement proceedings commenced by Ofgem for alleged licence and/or REMIT infringements.
- BAE Systems in connection with the UK Serious Fraud Office settlements and related investigations.
- a London foreign exchange broker on its defence to a High Court claim arising out of an alleged ponzi-like fraud investigated by the US SEC.
- a major airline in defence of high-profile follow-on competition damages actions brought by c.65,000 claimants in respect of an alleged air cargo cartel, which concluded with a successful settlement following more than a decade of litigation.
Education and qualifications
Elenor studied Jurisprudence (Law) at Oriel College, University of Oxford.
