Vanessa Whitman

Practice Areas

Vanessa Whitman is a Partner in the Finance Disputes team in London. Vanessa has over 15 years’ experience as a finance and insolvency litigator and works primarily on contentious matters for banks and insolvency professionals, advising clients on various aspects of contentious banking and insolvency law. She has a growing practice specialising in FinTech and Crypto disputes.

Vanessa also has significant experience advising clients how to deal with Serious Fraud Office cases and other fraud related matters, having advised on Britain’s largest mortgage fraud. Vanessa also successfully defended a £300m follow-on civil claim related to the same fraud at a 5-week Commercial Court trial.

Work Highlights

Defence of a GBP 300m reputation critical claim against a bank in the High Court (Commercial Court) resulting in indemnity costs orders in favour of our client.

Successful defence of abusive winding up proceedings.

Recovery of significant sums obtained by fraud, by way of multiple freezing injunctions and third-party disclosure orders.

Obtaining successful release of security over fleet of aircraft being held to ransom by corporate security holder outside of the jurisdiction.

Education