Rebecca Newell
Senior Associate Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment
Languages
French, German
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Rebecca is a senior associate in our London corporate disputes team. She has extensive experience of acting for clients on complex, high-value and multi-jurisdictional litigation.
Rebecca's focus lies in civil fraud proceedings, contractual disputes and insolvency-related litigation. Such disputes often involve seeking interim relief. Rebecca has considerable experience of obtaining injunctive relief for her clients, including worldwide freezing orders.
Rebecca acts for a wide range of clients, including top FTSE 100 companies and liquidators.
Rebecca has experience of driving cases through to trial, but also of effectively invoking the Court’s powers of early determination and using alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, to obtain swift and commercial resolutions for her clients.
Representative experience
Advising on a contractual and misrepresentation dispute between three shareholders, involving claims amounting to well over US$1 billion.
Advising FTSE 100 companies on complex and high-value contractual disputes, and achieving positive settlement outcomes.
Advising liquidators on complex fraud and insolvency-related litigation, involving a wide variety of jurisdictions and claims in excess of US$1 billion.
Advising a state-owned development bank on a complex debt dispute, which involved obtaining injunctive relief for the bank.
Co-ordinating a multi-jurisdictional strategy, bringing fraud claims on behalf of a US investment fund and obtaining worldwide freezing relief.
Credentials
- Law and German LLB, University of Bristol, 2012
- LPC, BPP University Law School
- Solicitor, England and Wales
- England and Wales