Pallas Partners LLP

Duane leads Pallas’s New York practice. He represents clients in complex commercial litigation, with a particular focus on restructuring disputes, contested issues in bankruptcy, and cross-border litigation. An experienced trial lawyer, Duane is regularly called upon to provide courtroom leadership for creditors, institutional shareholders, and fund principals in cases where litigation drives recoveries. In the area of restructuring litigation, Duane has represented ad hoc groups of creditors in a number of significant corporate bankruptcies, including the Chapter 11 cases of Intelsat S.A. and LBI Media, in each case serving as trial counsel in multi-week hearings on contested plans of reorganisation. In cross-border disputes, Duane has helped recover billions of dollars for institutional investors, including through Section 1782 discovery proceedings that have led to precedent-setting decisions in district and appellate courts throughout the United States. Find out more: https://pallasllp.com/team/duane-l-loft

Focusing on litigation and broader disputes strategies, Fiona’s portfolio encompasses high-profile finance litigation, restructuring and insolvency-related litigation, commercial litigation, shareholder disputes and sovereign debt disputes. She frequently litigates both before the English Courts and other fora, in complex, multi-jurisdictional and novel situations. Fiona also has a strong advisory practice working with clients to understand litigation risk and develop litigation strategies ahead of time. Find out more: https://pallasllp.com/team/fiona-huntriss

Joshua Naftalis

An accomplished trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor, Josh represents companies, boards, and executives in white collar criminal defence, regulatory enforcement matters, internal investigations, high-stakes commercial disputes, and crisis management. From 2012 to 2023, Josh was an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), leading many of the government’s most significant white collar prosecutions and trials during his tenure. As a senior member of the SDNY’s Securities & Commodities Fraud Task Force for seven years, he handled high-profile matters involving insider trading, corporate and accounting fraud, market manipulation, obstruction of justice, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and cryptocurrency. Find out more: https://pallasllp.com/team/joshua-a-naftalis

Kimmie Fearnside

Dual qualified in both England and New York, Kimmie maintains a broad commercial and financial litigation practice focusing on high value Court disputes where she frequently litigates before the High Court and on appeals. Kimmie also has experience in complex international arbitration matters, with expertise of LCIA and ICC rules, as well as acting investor-side in an investment treaty challenge. Kimmie is adept in advising and acting in matters relating to allegations of fraud, misrepresentation and breach of warranty claims, and a range of corporate disputes including breaches of director duties, shareholder disputes, and securities-related actions. Find out more: https://pallasllp.com/team/kimmie-fearnside

A highly experienced practitioner, Matt’s practice focuses on corporate crime and fraud, including government and internal investigations, civil litigation and white collar defence. He has acted for clients across the board in anti-corruption and sanctions matters, including investigations, representations before prosecutors and regulators, defence in criminal and civil matters, and work for claimants. Matt also has a thriving civil litigation practice in fraud and complex data and privacy issues, along with “white-collar adjacent” civil litigations, where issues such as bribery, sanctions and asset freezing predominate. Find out more: https://pallasllp.com/team/matthew-getz/

Natasha Harrison

Founder and Managing Partner of the London and New York offices of Pallas, Natasha focuses on complex commercial litigation disputes in the English Courts, internationally and through arbitration. She is the go-to counsel for some of the most important global corporates and her experience lies in high profile, high-value cases for hedge funds, private equity funds, investment banks, corporations and governments. With a portfolio encompassing high-stakes business disputes, including distressed and sovereign debt investments, special situations, emerging markets, complex finance arrangements and restructurings, she has a reputation as being one of the leading litigators of the most important investor disputes of the last decade. Find out more: https://pallasllp.com/team/natasha-harrison/

Neil advises financial institutions and corporates on a broad range of domestic and international disputes involving debt or equity investments with a focus on special situations, restructuring and insolvency. He has particular experience, in that context, in banking and finance litigation, distressed investments, contentious restructuring and insolvency as well as in disputes involving financial transactions and products, high value investments and commercial arrangements and financial regulatory issues. Find out more: https://pallasllp.com/team/neil-pigott/

Nelson acts as counsel and advisor in complex international disputes, with a focus on commercial and investment arbitration. He has experience arbitrating under all major institutional rules. Nelson has particular experience in the finance and technology sectors. He regularly acts for financial institutions, hedge funds, and PE firms in finance-related arbitration, including shareholders’ disputes, funding disputes or broken deals. He has been involved in disputes arising from technology-related mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and disputes involving SAAS, cloud computing, online platforms and digital monetization contracts. Nelson is also familiar with issues concerning Artificial Intelligence (AI). In addition to technology disputes, he has particular experience in mining, joint-venture, energy and civil fraud disputes. Find out more: https://pallasllp.com/team/nelson-goh/

Nick has deep experience in acting for the highest profile asset managers, financial institutions and insolvency practitioners on complex financial disputes, sovereign debt matters, and contentious insolvencies. An experienced trial lawyer, he has led and advised on proceedings in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, and acted and appeared in bet-the-company ICC and LCIA arbitrations. Clients rely on Nick’s experience in investment structuring, investigations and commercial strategy, including on high-profile disputes in numerous EU states, the US, Hong Kong and Cayman. Find out more: https://pallasllp.com/team/nick-turvey

Shireen serves as a principal in a wide range of complex commercial litigation matters, with a particular focus on business disputes involving fiduciary duties and allegations of fraud or other misconduct. Although Shireen has represented companies and individuals across a wide range of industries, she also has particular experience in counselling life science and biotech companies in connection with commercial disputes relating to milestone payments, royalties, commercially reasonable and best efforts, and issues relating to supplier and manufacturing contracts. She has served as lead counsel for plaintiffs and defendants in litigation across the U.S. relating to M&A transactions, lending activities, securities and corporate governance issues, contractual disputes and contested restructuring matters. Shireen regularly appears in Delaware and other courts around the country where she has represented private equity funds, portfolio companies, issuers, directors and officers in class action and other high stakes litigation. Find out more: https://pallasllp.com/team/shireen-barday

Susana Cao Miranda

Susana’s practice is focussed on litigation, investigations and contentious regulatory matters for clients in heavily regulated sectors. She has a broad range of experience in litigation before the English Courts and other jurisdictions including proceedings involving general commercial litigation, finance litigation, mass tort and parent company liability claims, investment fraud and claims relating to breaches of competition law. Her investigations practice spans a range of sectors and regulatory frameworks including finance and banking, mining, natural resources, and energy. Find out more: https://pallasllp.com/team/susana-cao-miranda

Tracey Dovaston

Tracey is an experienced solicitor whose practice focuses on regulatory and internal investigations, regulatory compliance and complex banking, finance and commercial litigation. As a leading practitioner, she has successfully represented corporate clients including major financial institutions in some of the most significant investigations brought by the FCA, PRA and global authorities. She has been on the front-line handling disputes arising out of the 2008 financial crisis, in addition to leading investigations relating to financial crime, market abuse, cyber and data, tax and whistleblowing. Find out more: https://pallasllp.com/team/tracey-dovaston/