7 King's Bench Walk

Rebecca has a broad commercial practice, with a particular focus on insurance and reinsurance, jurisdiction and conflicts of laws, commodities, shipping, civil fraud, and general commercial disputes. She has appeared led in the Court of Appeal, Commercial Court, Chancery Division and in international arbitrations and unled in the Commercial Court, Queen’s Bench Division and County Court.

Current and recent instructions include:

• V Ships Limited v Luna [2025] EWHC 3329 (Comm): acted for successful claimant in an expedited Commercial Court trial for contempt of court concerning breach of an antisuit injunction.

• Transworld Shipping Lines Limited v Globwin For Forwarding Company: obtained (as sole counsel) an interim mandatory injunction before Henshaw J in the Commercial Court compelling the provision of security under a letter of indemnity. In a subsequent hearing, Dias J awarded Rebecca’s clients their costs.

• AerCap Ireland Ltd v AIG Europe SA & Ors (Russian Aircraft Lessor Policy Claims) [2025] EWHC 1430 (Comm): acted for a major insurer in three-month mega trial of claims under lessor policies arising out of aircraft stranded in Russia. Earlier in the proceedings, Rebecca’s client was successful in a joinder application (AerCap Ireland Limited v AIG and Others [2023] EWHC 96 (Comm)).

• Unipolsai v Covea; Markel v General Reinsurance AG [2024] EWHC 253 (Comm): appeared in the first Covid-19 reinsurance case before the Commercial Court, determining issues of major market importance concerning the application of standard CAT XL wording to Covid BI losses.

Tenant at 7KBW 2019-present

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