Clifford Chance
Claire Freeman advises a broad range of clients on complex commercial, financial and civil fraud litigation matters. She also has experience of third party litigation funding and arbitration.
Claire has significant trial experience and specialises in cross-border litigation.
- Advising an aircraft manufacturer in relation to a number of disputes and commercial issues arising from the supply of aircraft
- Advising lessors on disputes in the aviation sector, often arising in the context of troubled airlines and including, for example, cross-border enforcement and recovery issues
- Advising a newspaper publisher in the phone hacking litigation, which is managed litigation in the English Chancery Division
- Advising corporate clients on a range of post-closing disputes, including breach of warranty claims and completion accounting disputes
- Represented a major European private equity firm in an English Commercial Court claim regarding the collapse of a Greek telecommunications operator
- Represented a sovereign wealth fund in relation to an arbitration and investigations in multiple jurisdictions associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds
- Advised a private equity firm in relation to a major shareholder dispute. The matter involved litigation across multiple jurisdictions and multiple arbitrations
- Represented a pharmaceutical company in relation to claims brought by a large generic medicines business in the English High Court for breach of contract, economic duress, the tort of intimidation and conspiracy in relation to the manufacture of a drug
- Represented an aircraft finance company in an English Court of Appeal case relating to the duties of a mortgagee
- Represented a hedge fund in relation to a dispute brought by a wealthy individual in the Commercial Court. The case concerned the alleged misselling of a derivative product
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Contact details
- Clifford Chance, London
- +442070064685
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- Practice area Litigation, dispute resolution & risk management
- Sector Aerospace & defence, Banks, Funds & investment management
Career and qualifications
- University of Sheffield (BA Law) 2004
- Joined Clifford Chance 2006
- Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2008
- Partner since 2020