Overview
Elenor is a Partner 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 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 Partner and a member of our Graduate Interview Panel.
Experience
Elenor has advised on a number of market-leading mandates. These include acting for:
- 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.