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Charlotte Henschen

+44 20 3060 6000 charlotte.henschen@rpc.co.uk

Work Department

Commercial and Banking Litigation

Position

Charlotte is a Senior Associate in RPC’s Commercial and Banking Litigation Group. She has substantial experience in high value and complex banking and financial markets litigation, both domestically and internationally. Her practice includes handling investment and mis-selling disputes, fund management disputes, professional negligence claims, enforcement actions, asset recovery, claims relating to manipulation of LIBOR and civil fraud.  She regularly represents banks, hedge and investment funds, pension funds, asset managers, major corporates and high net worth individuals.

Recent experience includes:

• Rowe & Ors v Ingenious Media Holdings plc & Ors (listed in The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2018)
• Bank St Petersburg v Arkhangelsky (listed in The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of the year 2014 – judgment 2018)
• Acting for a family office in relation to claims arising out of fraudulent misrepresentations in relation to the sale of LIBOR linked swap instruments
• Acting for an Icelandic bank in relation to multi-million-pound claims against two investment banks relating to in relation to their involvement with allegedly self-referencing credit default swaps through a Tchenguiz trust entity.
• Acting for the general partner of a fund in a €160m claim brought on behalf of the fund’s limited partner investors against the manager of the fund for gross negligence.

Career

Ashurst 2009-2015, qualified 2011, 2013 secondment to RBS Group Litigation, RPC 2015, Senior Associate 2017.

Education

University of Bristol, (Law with study abroad, LLB); Université de Poitiers (Diplôme d’etudes Juridiques), College of Law, Guildford (LPC).