Julia Purcell Senior Associate – Dispute Resolution
Julia specialises in the resolution of complex, high value commercial disputes, often with a cross-border element.
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Career Highlights
- Advising in a £300m+ claim for fraud, unjust enrichment and application for a worldwide freezing order against a former UBO of a Ukrainian bank (including proceedings and evidence for the High Court and Court of Appeal)
- Defending a professional trustee against personal and proprietary claims brought in the Commercial Court and seeking to trace the proceeds of the settlor’s historic fraud into the trust fund (based in Jersey);
- Leading a multi-million pound Commercial Court claim by a Russian software developer against an English hedge fund for breach of a software licence agreement regulating the use of the defendant’s trading strategy and breach of a related partnership agreement;
- Advising on a number of high-value claims arising out of a fraud by a former director and shareholder of the client company group which had been conducted over two decades;
- Advising on an LCIA arbitration with respect to certain loan notes issued by a Cayman Islands entity, involving allegations of fraud and duress by former owners of a failed bank.
- Advising on a large ICC arbitration over the Olympic development in Sochi;
- Advising on an LCIA dispute alleging a fraudulent sale of a Black Sea oil terminal at a significant undervalue in breach of the shareholders agreement.
- Acting for a private art collector in High Court proceedings against an international auction house successfully challenging the attribution of a painting to a particular artist.