EXPERTISE
Becky is a Managing Associate in the commercial disputes team, where she qualified in September 2018 after completing her training contract with the firm. Becky has a broad experience of commercial disputes, including advising clients on breach of contract claims, contract termination, business protection litigation and applications for urgent and injunctive relief (as applicant and respondent).
Becky is also part of the Competition Disputes practice and regularly advises on substantial multi-jurisdiction competition law disputes in follow-on claims and collective proceedings.
Becky also has experience of aviation disputes, including advising airlines on breach of services contracts and defective aircraft products.
- Experience
COMMERCIAL:
- Acting for a national retailer in its defence of a multi-million pound alleged breach of contract claim
- Advising a food manufacturer on related contractual disputes, including defending an injunction application
- Representing a company in a dispute with its CFO and successfully obtaining a without-notice injunction for preservation and delivery up of confidential information along with an affidavit as to use
COMPETITION LITIGATION:
- Representing the NKT group of companies on the defence of three separate follow-on damages cartel claims in the High Court and later the Competition Appeal Tribunal (one of which was amongst The Lawyer's Top 20 cases of 2020) arising out of the European Commission Power Cables infringement decision
- Acting for the Road Haulage Association (alongside Backhouse Jones) in proposed collective proceedings following the Trucks cartel
