Overview
Elenor is a Counsel in the Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations team in London. She has over a decade of experience advising multinational clients on a broad range of complex, high-value and/or reputationally sensitive commercial disputes and investigations.
Elenor’s practice covers contentious restructuring and insolvency and she has acted on a number of the most complex and high-profile restructuring and insolvency cases in recent years advising corporates and insolvency practitioners, as well as gaining a breadth of experience in the novel special administration regimes. Elenor has also been involved in key cases establishing recent R&I law in the UK, including the 2025 Thames Water restructuring plan, the Bulb Energy special administration and Lehman Brothers.
Elenor frequently works in close collaboration with lawyers from the firm’s other market-leading practice areas, including Banking Restructuring and Insolvency, Energy & Infrastructure, TMT, Employment & Incentives, Financial Regulation Group and Corporate. Elenor is passionate about building high-performing teams.
She is the Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations Divisional Group Trainee Sponsoring Counsel and a member of our Graduate Interview Panel.
Experience
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.
- the administrators of Bulb Energy on the UK’s first ever use of the special administration regime for energy supply companies.
- Lehman Brothers’ Administrators in the UK.
- Beaufort Securities’ Administrators on the investment bank special administration.
- Praesidiad on its recapitalisation transaction implemented via an English Scheme of Arrangement in the High Court.
- a 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 SFO 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.
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