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Rebecca Loveridge

020 7583 3335 rjl@fountaincourt.co.uk View profile

Position

Rebecca specialises in commercial litigation and financial services regulation. Her practice spans a wide variety of disputes, including those related to aviation, banking and financial services, civil fraud and professional negligence. Her cases often have an international dimension and she is regularly instructed to advise on issues involving conflict of laws. She is also frequently instructed to act in regulatory investigations and related proceedings. Her recent cases include high value claims concerning disputed loan agreements, a dispute arising out of the impact of economic sanctions on an aircraft lease agreement and allegations of fraud in respect of the sale of financial products. She has also acted for the Financial Reporting Council in a number of high profile matters and appeared in some of the leading cases on legal professional privilege. In 2018 she was recognised by the Legal 500 as one of the “Top Ten under Eight Years’ Call” for Commercial Litigation.

Reported cases include: Watchstone Group v PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP [2023] EWHC 1133 (Comm); R (Donegan) v Financial Services Compensation Scheme [2021] EWHC 760 (Admin); Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited v Ambani [2020] EWHC 1403 (Comm), [2019] EWHC 3436 (Comm); PCP Capital Partners LLP v Barclays Bank Plc [2020] EWHC 1393 (Comm); Financial Reporting Council v Sports Direct International Plc [2020] 2 WLR 1256; A v B and Financial Reporting Council [2020] EWHC 1491 (Ch); Director of the SFO v Eurasian Natural Resources Corp Ltd [2019] 1 WLR 791; Dana Gas PJSC v Dana Gas Sukuk Limited [2018] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 177; Aldersgate Investments Limited v Lloyds Bank Plc [2018] EWHC 2601 (Comm).

Career

Called 2011, Inner Temple.

Contributor to Thanki (ed) The Law of Privilege (3rd edn); Contributor to Challenging Private Law: Lord Sumption on the Supreme Court; Co-author of chapter on UK Privilege in The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations; Co-author of the chapter on expert witnesses in Simpson (ed) Professional Negligence.

Memberships

COMBAR.

Education

St Peter’s College, Oxford University (BA Law First Class); Trinity College, Oxford University (BCL Distinction).