Corporate Disputes 2025 - 5th Annual Forum

Genevieve acts for corporate and individual clients in a broad range of commercial disputes. She frequently represents companies in the banking and finance, private equity, hospitality and leisure, retail, media and telecoms sectors. Her expertise spans pre-action strategic advice to directors, shareholders and company founders through to high value, multi-jurisdictional High Court litigation.

Genevieve has a leading banking and finance litigation practice as well as a specialism in competition private enforcement actions, and is currently representing over 1,000 companies in group claims against Visa and MasterCard. She is equally at ease acting for claimants and defendants, and frequently works with third party litigation funders.

Shona is a Partner in the Private Commercial Litigation team.

Shona is an experienced commercial litigator, with a background in corporate disputes and civil fraud. She is skilled in pursuing and defending complex, high value and multi-jurisdictional claims, which frequently involve alleged breaches of fiduciary duty. Her work often involves seeking or resisting injunctions.

Shona has particular expertise in corporate disputes, acting for companies and individual directors and shareholders in relation to M&A disputes (arising both pre- and post-acquisition), unfair prejudice of shareholders’ interests, breaches of directors’ duties, and breaches of shareholders’ agreements and joint venture agreements. Shona works closely with the corporate team advising on deal risk issues and disputes arising out of transactions. 

Charlotte is an experienced commercial litigator and has been awarded six ‘rising stars’ from The Legal 500 in the past three years. She is recognised as being ‘tenacious’, ‘a real force of nature’ and an ‘opponent-whisperer’, and is said to be ‘brilliant at case management and marshalling evidence’ with ‘a particular talent for sniffing out the best pieces of evidence in a case’.

She advises on a broad range of complex, high-value cross-border disputes across a number of commercial and business sectors, including financial services (having previously been on secondment at a large institutional bank), company disputes, corporate insolvency and civil fraud / asset tracing. She has specialist expertise in digital assets where she advises clients about cryptocurrencies and blockchain disputes, and she acted in one of the very few contested cryptocurrency disputes which resulted in a successful outcome for her client.

Charlotte sits on the Law Society Council on behalf of civil litigators (non-personal injury) and is a committee member of the London Solicitor Litigation Association, having formerly spent two years as the elected President of the Junior LSLA. She is also a committee member of the Cyber Insurance Association and a steering committee member of the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations

Roger Cooper leads Cleary’s securities and M&A litigation practice.

He has successfully litigated more than fifty shareholder, class action and derivative actions arising out of securities, M&A, corporate governance, and other commercial disputes.

Roger is internationally recognized as a leader in corporate litigation by ranking publications including The Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation, and Chambers USA. Client testimonials attest to Roger’s reputation as a “terrific strategist, with a vast knowledge of his field of expertise,” “very talented,” “really spectacular,” “excellent and smart attorney,” who is “very detail-oriented and conscientious,” and “really understands the facts and the case law in securities matters and we can rely on his judgment and assessments.” He is “client oriented,” demonstrates “great judgment,” “has great advice as to strategy and potential settlements,” is “a very, very thoughtful guy,” and “a pleasure to work with and a terrific litigator.” Roger’s clients value his representation for “professionalism and responsiveness in the highest degree” and rely on his “thoughtful and creative” advice. He leads a team that clients describe as “very responsive and easy to work with,” and “extremely professional and creative in their work, flexible in their implementation and cooperation.” Clients turn to Roger and his team for “a very international approach and a lot of experience in cross-border matters.” In sum, “they are first-rate in terms of intellectual and legal acumen. They’re first grade in securities.”