Mona Vaswani > Milbank > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Milbank
100 Liverpool Street
LONDON
EC2M 2AT
England
Mona Vaswani photo

Position

Partner, Litigation & Arbitration

Career

Mona Vaswani advises on a variety of complex, cross-border, disputes and investigations, with an emphasis on banking litigation, fraud and asset tracing claims as well as trust litigation. She has also conducted arbitrations in the LCIA.

Mona has acted for a number of leading international and investment banks on a wide range of banking and regulatory disputes and investigations in England. She also has substantial experience of advising banks and trustees in the conduct of trust litigation in several jurisdictions. Mona has litigated in many of the major offshore jurisdictions, including, Jersey, Guernsey, the Cayman Islands and the BVI.

Mona has acted in various claims in the High Court, in the finance sector, including those involving allegations of fraud, constructive trust and breach of fiduciary duty and has also acted in international arbitrations concerning derivatives disputes and has experience of conducting internal inquiries and investigations for a number of corporate and banking clients.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil

(Hall of Fame)

Mona VaswaniMilbank

Milbank is home to Mona Vaswani, a ‘market leading partner in fraud work‘ who serves as a key port of call for a number of international and investment banks. Found among her workload are fraud, asset tracing, trust and breach of fiduciary duty claims, among other proceedings.

London > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium

Milbank has a ‘growing team of commercial litigators, with a particular emphasis on fraud claims’, and are seen as ‘great at large team litigation’. The team’s strengths are exemplified by its work for Visa on significant interchange litigation over the last decade. Julian Stait does a ‘huge proportion of the work for Visa’ and leads the team that consists of ‘incisive, results-oriented’ Mona Vaswani and ‘future starConrad Marinkovic.

London > Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail

(Leading individuals)

Mona VaswaniMilbank

Milbank boasts a team that ‘leverages its unique abilities and insights’ to lead on high-profile and complex competition law disputes and investigations, with particular expertise in loan and bond-related transactional disputes. Julian Stait leads the team, notably representing Visa and Rabobank in relation to interchange litigation and Libor manipulation matters. ‘Superb banking specialistMona Vaswani is integral to the team, and is a ‘formidable and determined opponent’. Also highly active in the practice are Tom Canning, who provides ‘excellent, practical advice’ for clients, and Peter Edworthy.