Fiona is a confident advocate with a broad commercial practice covering litigation and international arbitration in Chambers’ main practice areas, including:
- Shipping and international trade
- Jurisdiction and conflict of laws
- Energy
- Insurance
- Technology and IT/digital
- Banking, insurance and financial services
She has appeared as sole counsel in the High Court and County Court.
She regularly advises on international services contracts, sale contracts and charterparty and commodities disputes. Her practice includes a broad range of contract, tort, agency, trust/equity and restitution disputes.
An active publisher, Fiona contributed to the leading text on the conflict of laws, Dicey on Conflicts, the White Book 2019 (on European jurisdiction and service) and Freedom of Information in the UK. She is also on the Lexis Nexis Lexis PSL case analysis panel.
Fiona prides herself on being a flexible, personable barrister who is quick to grasp points and easily able to integrate into teams.
Before coming to the Bar, Fiona was a policy advisor to the UK government and taught Law at a leading German university (world trade law, EU law and English public law).
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Example cases
- Acting for a leading professional services provider in an arbitration about the enforceability of post-termination restrictive covenants (led by Robert Howe QC and Christopher Newman).
- Acting for an energy brokerage company in a test case about the legality of its business model involving contractual, tortious and equitable claims (sole counsel).
- Acting for a carrier in a US$2 billion dispute about the enforceability of a long-term contract of affreightment, raising issues of waiver and sham contracts (led by Nathan Pillow QC, John Russell QC and Jessica Wells).
- Acting for the English provider of online crypto-currency trading services defending freezing and disclosure orders relating to a Danish contract (sole counsel).
- Acting for the heiress of an estate in proceedings about the administration of the estate, raising issues of tracing the proceeds of fraud, breach of trust, preferential treatment of a creditor and transaction at an undervalue (sole counsel).
- Acting for the American vendor of a Cayman Islands company in an LCIA arbitration about the purchaser’s payment obligations arising from sums awarded to the Cayman company in a long-running Indian-seated arbitration following redomiciling of the Cayman company to a higher tax jurisdiction (sole counsel).
- Acting for a pharmacy benefit manager (a service related to health insurance) in an arbitration about breaches of a joint venture agreement including IP claims (led by Harris Bor).
- Acting for a well engineering and project management company in an arbitration about the drilling of offshore oil wells (sole counsel).
- Acting for a well-known doughnut retailer in proceedings relating to breaches of a franchising and supply agreement (sole counsel).
- Acting for insurers of two luxury London residential developments following extensive water damage (sole counsel).
- Advising owners of a vessel stranded off Sudan on deviation rights, indemnities and expiration of class certificate where circumstances onboard the vessel had become critical and inhumane (sole counsel).
- Acting for a Marshall Islands company in proceedings about the enforceability of a loan agreement (sole counsel).
- Acting for an oligarch in a dispute about breach of fiduciary duties after termination of an agency relationship (led by Duncan Matthews QC).
- Advising a provider of consumer video-streaming services on an injunction application (led by Henry Byam-Cook).
- Acting for a peer-to-peer lender in proceedings about the enforceability of a loan agreement (sole counsel).
- Acting for the lessee in a High Court dispute about an aircraft lease agreement and associated maintenance agreements (sole counsel).
