Clare Stanley

International & Offshore CV

Much of Clare's work is foreign litigation in offshore jurisdictions and her cases are almost always high-value. 

Isis Investments Ltd v Investec Trust (Guernsey) Ltd & others [current] (anti-suit injunction; claims in England and in BVI arising out of £1 billion secured lending by Kaupthing Bank HF and its subsidiaries to offshore entities in complex holding structure; £180 million claim damages for breach of contract arising out of sale of Somerfield Supermarket chain.  Several related claims concerning loan and equity syndication.

Re Weissfisch [2004-9] (long-running, multi-party hostile trust litigation in Bahamas; anti-suit injunction).

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi v Baskan Gida and others [2009] EWHC 1276 (Ch) (six month trial before Briggs J. €25 mill misrepresentation, conspiracy and tracing claims against Ferrero and others in connection with pre-export revolving trade finance facility granted to Turkish hazelnut exporter).

Kensington v Montrow (British Virgin Islands) [2007 - 2008] (claim was that a Jersey/BVI loan securitization trust structure owning Congolese oil concession was a sham to defeat creditors.)

A v B [2007] 1 Lloyd's Rep 237 (Colman J) (conflict of laws, jurisdiction - choice between Bahamian trust proceedings, Swiss arbitration and English fraud proceedings relating to US$100 mill commodities trading business).

Attorney General of Zambia Meer Care & Desai & Others [2007] EWHC 952 (Ch) (four and a half month trial before Peter Smith J.  US$60 million conspiracy and tracing claim by Zambian Government against former President and others).

Macdoel v Federal Republic of Brazil [2007] (Petition to Privy Council; Norwich Pharmacal order to get bank documents to trace assets).

Weissfisch v Julius [2006] 1 Lloyds LR 716 Court of Appeal (principles on which court will grant injunction restraining foreign arbitration).