Her experience includes handling claims relating to M&A transactions, international sanctions, joint venture arrangements and customer, supplier and distributor relationships. She has experience across a wide range of sectors and industries including consumer and retail, aerospace and defence, private equity, sport, financial services, and telecoms.
Alice acts as a strategic adviser to clients in legal proceedings across the globe, assisting with and coordinating some of their most reputationally-sensitive matters. Her clients include FTSE companies and large international groups, as well as their senior management.
Alice is consistently recognised as a leading litigator by the legal directories where she is described as “phenomenal” and “an excellent technician and an imaginative lawyer who thinks outside the box." (Corporate & Commercial Litigation, Chambers UK 2023).
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Alice acts for corporates, financial institutions and individuals on complex and high stakes commercial disputes both in the English courts and internationally, regularly advising on multi-jurisdictional matters.
Expertise
Industries
Leadership Positions And Professional Affiliations
- Member, The Law Society of England and Wales
- Member, LCIA Young International Arbitration Group
Recognition
“Alice "is the smartest lawyer I have ever worked with", someone who "combines gravitas with practicality and commercial flexibility" and "is excellent. She is someone who is very strategic and really cares about her clients."”
Corporate & Commercial Litigation, Chambers UK 2022
“She is in a class of her own. Her mastery of the law and its advocacy is matched with an unrivalled human empathy that helps her identify and secure solutions that are durable”
Legal 500 UK, 2021
Qualifications
Admissions
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2003
Academic
BA (Hons), Economics and Politics, Durham University, 1998
Post Graduate Diploma, Law, 1999
LPC, 2000 (with Distinction)
Languages
English