Expertise
Hannah is a commercial litigator who specialises in insolvency law and asset recovery.
Hannah acts for insolvency practitioners appointed as administrators, liquidators, administrative receivers, court appointed receivers and also as trustees in bankruptcy. Hannah also acts for creditors, large and small, from institutional to individual, specifically advising on asset investigations and enforcement.
Hannah also has experience in advising directors in relation to duties and personal liabilities in office. In addition Hannah has advised and acted for a number of directors facing disqualification proceedings from the Secretary of State for Trade & Industry (now Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform).
Key Experience and Clients
Hannah has recently successfully acted for:
- administrators in relation to heavily contested proceedings for assessment of the administrators' costs, where all costs claimed were recovered
- a director seeking leave to continue to act in relation to two companies following a disqualification undertaking
- a public agent in executing a search and freeze order in relation to assets placed outside of the jurisdiction, where substantial monies (£1m+) were repatriated
- a victim of property fraud, where Hannah successfully obtained an order for rectification from the Adjudicator to HM Land Registry and recovery of her client's costs from the Land Registry.
Professional Memberships
Young Fraud Lawyers' Association
Career History
| 2002 |
Qualified, Mishcon de Reya |
| 2000 |
Joined Mishcon de Reya |
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College of Law, London, LPC |
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City University, London, CPE/Post-Graduate Diploma in Law |
Languages
Non-Business French.
Personal Information
Watching sport, scuba diving and playing 'penny up the wall'!
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