Praised as a ‘very strong commercial’ chambers, Erskine Chambers is a ’go-to set for complex company law and insolvency and restructuring matters’. Other areas of expertise for its members include corporate transactions and the financial services sector. Michael Todd KC is a notable silk at the set with expertise in company law mandates, as well as corporate finance, capital markets, and corporate insolvency disputes. Todd KC is acting for the defendant in Athene Ltd v Siddiqui, a case concerning allegations of misusing confidential information, which will be heard before the Supreme Court of Bermuda. For David Chivers KC BVI restructuring and insolvency form key areas of practice, while Edward Davies KC is also called to the Bar in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. Turning to the juniors, Andrew Blake is acting for Jardine Strategic Limited in a case surrounding a $5.5bn restructuring, in which more than 80 plaintiffs are seeking compensation. Anna Scharnetzky is another key junior in this case.
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Anna specialises in company law, corporate insolvency and corporate finance, as well as related areas of commercial law. Her practice is divided approximately equally between advisory work and litigation. She has a particular interest in work with a cross-border element. Anna undertakes a mixture of high value, complex led work alongside unled work. She regularly appears in the High Court and before the ICC Judges (formerly Registrars) in the Companies Court. Her matters often involve applications for interim relief, including injunctions and freezing orders.
Career
Called 2011(Gray’s Inn)
Languages
Anna is a bilingual German speaker and also qualified as a lawyer in Germany.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR.
Education
2006 – 2009 BA (Hons) in Law, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
James William Squire Scholarship (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge)
Avory Scholarship (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)
2009 – 2010 LLM (Distinction), University College London
2010 – 2011 BPTC (Very Competent), Kaplan Law School
The Bacon Award (Gray’s Inn)
Avory Studentship (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)
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- "Alex Calder is excellent. He is very helpful and provides timely responses which is important.'
- 'Alex Calder and Seamus Nixon have been extremely helpful and very user-friendly.'
- 'The clerks at Erskine chambers are an excellent team; quick to respond, helpful and pragmatic, and understanding of the challenges faced by instructing solicitors. They are polite, professional and hard working.'
- 'Erskine is a very strong commercial set which you feel confident approaching for important matters requiring counsel's involvement. Clerks provide timely responses and the barristers are excellent. Having seen some of their juniors, it is clear that they attract and train excellent barristers.'
- 'Erskine is the go-to set for complex company law and insolvency and restructuring matters. Their members are the brightest company law set, who are easy to work with and very available.'