Deborah Horowitz

Practice Areas

Deborah Horowitz specialises in general commercial litigation, including aviation, insurance, banking and finance, regulatory investigations, international trade finance, company law, corporate crime and civil fraud. Recent instructions include: acting for the Financial Conduct Authority in the business interruption insurance test case litigation, which impacted some 370,000 policyholders; representing RBS in the litigation relating to its £12bn Rights Issue; and appearing for GECAS in its successful defence in the Court of Appeal in respect of a large-scale claim in relation to aircraft finance. She has a particular interest in cases dealing with aircraft leasing and finance, aviation operations (including regulation of airports and airlines), insurance coverage, cross-border fraud, transnational financial instruments such as letters of credit, performance bonds and guarantees, and AI and cybersecurity. She was previously a litigation solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. She is dual-qualified in England and Australia, and receives instructions from both jurisdictions, as well as from Singapore.

Career

Solicitor Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Melbourne, Australia, 2004-05; solicitor Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, 2007-10; barrister, Fountain Court Chambers, 2010 to date.

Publications

Sole author of Letters of Credit and Demand Guarantees: Defences to Payment (based on doctorate at Oxford); contributor to Law of Bank Payments; author of numerous articles in academic journals.

Personal

University of Melbourne (BA (Hons) English and French; LLB (Hons)); Merton College, University of Oxford (BCL Distinction; M Phil Distinction; D Phil in Law).

Fluent French speaker.