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Elizabeth Fox has experience as a commercial litigator with a focus on civil fraud and contentious insolvency often as part of complex multi-jurisdictional disputes. She handles matters involving allegations of fraud or misconduct including diversion of business opportunities, secret commissions, bribery, conspiracy, data theft, misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of confidence, and/or breach of contract.
Elizabeth represents a wide range of clients including high net-worth individuals and many of her cases are international in scope Recently, her cases have involved Jersey, Singapore, Switzerland, Dubai, Japan, US, Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Jordan, China, Hong Kong, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbuda, Liechtenstein, Ireland, Israel and Mexico. Her experience includes injunctive relief on both the claimant and defendant side such as search orders; freezing and asset preservation orders; delivery-up orders; computer imaging orders; third Party disclosure orders; and other asset recovery techniques.
She has been identified by Chambers UK Guide as Up and Coming in the Fraud: Civil category. Chambers UK Guide 2023 also refers to Elizabeth as “a master of detail” and “simply fantastic. She understands the most complex situations very quickly, and incorporates the legal and procedural principles of other jurisdictions into her analysis with disconcerting ease”, whilst the Legal 500 UK 2024 refers to Elizabeth as an “expert in the field of asset recovery. She is extremely responsive, always displays an excellent understanding of our legal options and is relentless at driving workstreams forward.” Elizabeth is also ranked as a Top Recommended lawyer in the Corporate Lawyers, Litigation and Dispute Resolution index in Spear’s 500 2024, and recognised in the Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Litigators directory. Additionally, Elizabeth is ranked as Recommended in Asset Recovery by Who’s Who Legal 2024.
Kompetencje
Doświadczenie
- Represented the first and main defendant in one of The Lawyer’s top 20 cases for 2020, and one of the largest disputes ever before the Commercial Court, involving alleged secret commissions in the Middle East and Europe. The case raises important issues of jurisdiction, applicable law, and Swiss banking secrecy.
- Acting for a HNW judgment creditor in respect of the multi-jurisdictional enforcement of a multimillion-dollar foreign judgment which included asset tracing in several jurisdictions with the use of disclosure orders including in England and the United States followed by freezing and attachment orders.
- Acting for a number of HNW individuals facing allegations of misuse of confidential information.
- Acting for a beneficiary of a trust in relation to beddoe proceedings in Jersey with parallel proceedings in Canada which had at the heart allegations of fraud.
- Acting for a beneficiary of a significant multi-jurisdictional, multimillion-dollar estate in respect of their entitlement under Sharia law.
- Acting in respect of letters of request under the Evidence (Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions) Act 1975 in respect of obtaining the provision of evidence in England for use in foreign proceedings.
- Acting in a number of confidential international arbitrations including in the ICC and LCIA involving allegations of breach of contract in a number of different areas including shipping, metals, pharmaceutical and distribution.
- Acting in a respect of confidential engagement regarding anti-doping breaches in sport.
- Acting for the Administrators of London Capital and Finance plc wherein it was alleged that LCF acted as a Ponzi scheme and that hundreds of millions of pounds were misappropriated.°
- Acting for London Oil & Gas Limited (in Administration) in [2020] EWHC 35 (Ch) where the administrators’ appointment was unsuccessfully challenged.°
- Acting for the Applicants in the matter of AA v BB [2021] EWHC 1833 (Ch)which is the leading case regarding the effect of a proprietary freezing order on the payment of legal expenses.°
- Acting for an UHNW client defending a claim for knowing receipt and dishonest assistance with parallel foreign criminal proceedings. Obtained security for costs against a foreign state owned oil company.°
- Acting for administrators of companies in proceedings involving a large-scale fraud and involving the use of the administrators’ statutory powers and injunctive relief.°
- Acting for HNW defendants and their companies who were served with a worldwide freezing order in respect of a claim for secret commissions and diversion of profits which was settled in the early stages of litigation namely prior to defences being filed.°
- Assisting in acting for an UHNW individual in the defence of civil proceedings worth $380m, which resulted in the strike out of the claim and discharge of a worldwide freezing order at first instance.°
- Acting for a company to remove the Chairman of an arbitral tribunal based on an appearance of bias via the English Court.°
- Acting for a former director and company secretary in respect of a claim against them for approximately £50m for unpaid taxes and NI. As a result of the work undertaken by the team, the claim was eventually struck out on the basis that, having obtained an Unless Order in respect of disclosure, the claimants failed to comply with that order.°
- Acting for an employer to secure and serve an order for the delivery-up of confidential information taken by a former employee and computer imaging of that employee's electronic devices.°
- Advising a number of clients, including in the recruitment sector and estate agent industry, on claims against former employees and/or competitors for the theft of business sensitive confidential information, including customer data and financial information. These cases often include seeking search orders or delivery up orders to secure the return of this information and restraining injunctions to prevent any further misuse of it.°
- Obtained Norwich Pharmacal relief against a number of banks in order to trace into the proceeds of a fraud and assets purchased with those proceeds.°
- Advising a client, with assets in excess of $1 billion, on the resilience of their asset structure to litigation.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Fox prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Sukcesy i wyróżnienia
- Certificate of Thanks, City of London, for exemplary voluntary role and invaluable contributions to serving the community throughout the coronavirus pandemic
- Listed, Chambers UK Guide, Fraud: Civil, 2023-2025
- Listed, The Legal 500 United Kingdom, 2023-2024
- "Fraud: Civil," 2023
- "Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail," 2024
- Listed, Lawdragon, "500 Leading Global Litigators," 2023-2024
- Listed, Spear's 500, "Top Recommended," Litigation, 2023
- Listed, Who’s Who Legal, “Recommended, Asset Recovery,” 2024
- Member, Fraud Women's Network
- Member, International Bar Association
Kwalifikacje
- Legal Practice Course (LPC), College of Law
- B.A., McGill University
- LL.B., University of Birmingham
- Anglia i Walia