Donna has experience in a broad range of commercial disputes with a particular focus on banking, investment and finance disputes.

She has considerable experience of advising on complex, high value disputes often with an international element. Donna acts regularly both for and against banks and other financial institutions and is well versed in both High Court litigation and international arbitration.

Julian is an insolvency and dispute resolution specialist, with extensive experience of proceedings across a broad range of industries and sectors.

Julian’s insolvency practice covers both corporate and personal insolvency. He acts for insolvency practitioners, creditors, debtors and all other stakeholders in the insolvency process. Julian's particular focus is on court driven and contentious insolvency matters, including Insolvency Act applications; Court appointed receiverships; full-blown litigation; and other forms of dispute resolution. He is part of Stephenson Harwood’s Chambers-ranked Tier 1 personal insolvency practice, which revolves around insolvent individuals with multi-million pound debts and global assets.

Kate is listed as a leading mediator in the current editions of The Legal 500 (where she is ranked in Band 1), Chambers and Partners Directory (Band 1) and Who’s Who Legal (included in the 5 ‘Most Highly Regarded Individuals’ in England).

Qualified as a lawyer both in England & Wales and also in New York, Kate has been a CEDR accredited mediator since 2005 and has successfully mediated disputes in a variety of commercial sectors including banking, general commercial, insurance, intellectual property, employment, private client, public sector, real estate and professional negligence.

Kate is experienced in handling high value, high profile disputes and is able to understand new and complex cases quickly. Her clients have ranged from large public and international companies, where Kate is used to dealing at CEO and board level, to individuals with personal grievances.

Geoff Carton-Kelly is a partner and Licensed Insolvency Practitioner at FRP  in London. He has more than 35 years’ experience, and has been taking appointments since 1998. More recently his primary focus has been on contentious insolvency, international recovery projects, real estate, and charities. He advises boards and stakeholders, claimants, and government agencies on a range of asset tracing and recovery solutions including issuing proceedings against third parties in multiple jurisdictions.

Chris Ross is a litigator specialising in commercial, banking and finance and competition-related disputes, often with a multi-jurisdictional element.

He has acted in a variety of matters involving complex derivatives, structured products and other lending and finance arrangements. His clients include hedge funds, asset managers and sophisticated institutional investors.

Chris is a member of the firm's cross-practice Competition Litigation team. He has advised clients in both bringing and defending follow-on damages claims, in relation to competition law infringements at both domestic and EU level.

Prior to joining RPC, Chris lived and worked in Singapore and has experience of dispute resolution mechanisms across South East Asia.

He is a Solicitor Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience.

Chris has been recognised as Next Generation Partner for Banking Litigation by The Legal 500 UK (2021).