Allison Wu

Commercial

• Confidential: Acting for the respondent in a nine-figure LCIA arbitration concerning a gas field (led by Stephen Brown)
• Assisting Alice Hawker in advising on the merits of a potential group claim for breach of contract and breach of consumer protection regulations (during pupillage)
• Assisting Tim Matthewson in a dispute concerning the alleged termination of a consultancy agreement (during pupillage)

Property

• Acting in a dispute concerning the enforcement of a mortgage over a £45 million property, involving issues such as the beneficial ownership of the property, regulated mortgage contracts and penalty clauses (led by Alice Hawker)
• Acted as sole counsel for the defendant in a one-day trial concerning a claim for statutory compensation and a defence of set-off against rent arrears, including cross-examination
• Acted as sole counsel for the debtor in a mortgage possession claim involving a loan facility worth £1.2 million
• Acted as sole counsel in a one-day hearing in the First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) concerning a dispute over service charges, including cross-examination
• Assisting Alice Hawker in a six-day trial to enforce a £50 million mortgage facility involving issues of collateral contract and promissory estoppel, and a counterclaim for £5 million arising from allegations of unjust enrichment (during pupillage)

Insolvency

• Successfully acted as sole counsel for the debtor in an application to set aside a statutory demand, raising an issue concerning the release of joint and several liability

Trusts, probate, and estates

• Assisting James Goodwin in a multibillion-dollar commercial trusts dispute concerning a contested distribution of trust assets to the settlor-beneficiary (during pupillage)
• Assisting James Goodwin in resisting a proprietary injunction in a dispute over the beneficial ownership of three properties (during pupillage)

Civil Fraud

• Assisting James Goodwin in a multi-jurisdictional fraud dispute involving allegations of deceit, forgery, and misappropriation of assets (during pupillage)
• Assisting Alice Hawker in advising on the merits of a claim for deceit in respect of a supply agreement worth c £14 million (during pupillage)
• Drafting pleadings in a fraud claim involving claims for fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of trust, unjust enrichment, knowing receipt and dishonest assistance (during pupillage, with Tim Matthewson)
• Drafting pleadings in a mortgage fraud claim against conveyancing solicitors for negligence, breach of trust, and breach of undertaking (during pupillage, with Alice Hawker)

Professional liability

• Drafting pleadings for a claim for loss of chance damages arising out of negligent advice given in respect of an option agreement (with Emer Murphy, during pupillage)

Pensions

• Assisting James McCreath in advising on the validity of a deed of amendment to a pension scheme (during pupillage)