Quillon Law LLP

Commercial Litigation

Partner

Nicola is a litigator with over 20 years’ experience, specialising in complex commercial and cross-jurisdictional litigation, particularly fraud and technology disputes. She is has acted on some of the most high-profile, high-value recent cases involving worldwide freezing orders and other injunctive relief.

Nicola started her practice as a tenacious criminal defence barrister, quickly developing a commercial practice advising individuals and businesses in crisis, and appearing in the Crown Courts, Chancery and Commercial Courts, Employment Appeals Tribunal and the Privy Council. She joined a leading boutique litigation firm over a decade ago, and retains advocacy rights in the higher courts. She has drawn on her multi-disciplinary background when working on the most complex cases, particularly where there are co-existing criminal and civil disputes with potentially competing strategies, coordinated legal and media attacks, and multiple proceedings ongoing in several jurisdictions.

Nicola regularly works with clients in the digital and technology sector, including crypto companies and entrepreneurs, and led the team which represented the successful claimaint in one of the leading crypto fraud cases in the English courts. Most of Nicola’s cases are international, and she has acted for and against foreign governments and government institutions, including where political motivation, reputation and human rights issues are engaged. Many of her clients are high net worth individuals (and their businesses), who know her as a trusted advisor who will go the extra mile, and who will work with them towards commercial, as well as legal, goals.

Nicola is a triple national (British-Bahamian-Swiss), and retains close ties to all three countries. She is called to the Bar in The Bahamas, has advised in relation to Bahamian law, and has acted in Bahamian Privy Council appeal cases. Nicola is also on the editorial committee of the Tech Disputes Network.

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (AB, Government; 1999)

London School of Economics and Political Science (MSc, Theory and History of International Relations; 2001)

Queen Mary, University of London (LLB, fast track; 2003)

The College of Law, London (Bar Vocational Course; 2004)