Alexandra Whelan

Practice Areas

Barrister specialising in commercial litigation, including aviation, banking, civil fraud, the regulation of financial and level services, and public law.

Recent notable led cases include: NMC Healthcare Ltd (in administration) (subject to a deed of company arrangement) and Ors v Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC and Ors [2023] ADGMCFI 0017; Dargamo Holdings Ltd v Avonwick Holdings Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 1149; and Mohamed Hassan El Haddad v Khulood Abdulla Hassan Al Rostamani [2021] EWHC 1892 (Ch).

Career

Called to the Bar of England and Wales 2016. Admitted to practice as an Australian lawyer 2011.

2017-Present: Barrister, Fountain Court Chambers

2016-2017: Pupil Barrister, Fountain Court Chambers

2013-2014: Associate (judicial assistant), Federal Court of Australia

2011-2013: Solicitor, King & Wood Mallesons (Melbourne, Australia)

Publications

Co-author (with Joshua Getzler), ‘Common Law and the Constraint of Financial Markets: Credit Rating Agencies as a Test Case’ in Kit Barker, Karen Fairweather, and Ross Grantham (eds), Private Law in the 21stCentury (Hart Publishing, 2017), ch 13.

Personal

2010 Bachelor of Law (First Class Honours); Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne

2015 Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction), Oxford University

2016 MPhil in Law (Distinction), Oxford University