TL4 FIRE Starters x CRS & GT: E-Discovery & AI in Action

Caroline is a Partner in the commercial disputes and fraud team, who has substantial experience in complex, high profile and multijurisdictional disputes, and financial crime investigations.  The disputes she acts on typically involve breaches of contract and  misrepresentations, tortious / wrongful acts, civil fraud and asset tracing, and / or allegations of bribery and corruption; and regularly involve the need for injunctive relief which she has great experience in obtaining.

Caroline successfully defended John Mason in the recent high profile case of SFO v GPT, Cook & Mason, in which Mr Mason defeated allegations of international bribery and corruption following a 10 year investigation and prosecution. She defended corporate clients in the $9 billion AHAB / SAAD fraud litigation in which she was granted limited admission to the Cayman bar and which featured the Cayman Islands’ longest ever fraud trial. She successfully defended a former employee of a multi-national oil company from high-profile allegations of bribery and corruption in Nigeria before the Milan Court of Appeal. And she brought proceedings on behalf of liquidators of various companies against a bank for fraudulent trading in assisting a VAT carousel fraud in the carbon credit market.

Caroline is also one of the founding members of the network of fraud and asset recovering practitioners, ACROSS Fraud, and is a regular conference speaker and thought leadership author on issues of fraud, asset recovery, bribery and corruption

Stephanie is a commercial litigation and dispute resolution specialist, advising individual and corporate clients on a broad range of complex, high-value commercial disputes, often with an international element.

Her particular areas of practice include breaches of contract, shareholder and partnership disputes, civil fraud and asset tracing, international freezing and debt recovery, multi-jurisdictional banking litigation, judicial review, international bribery and corruption, and warranty claims. She has experience of litigating through the Courts, both domestically and internationally, as well as resolving disputes through alternative means such as arbitration, mediation and negotiated settlement.

Rajan Shergill is a Senior Consultant in the Cyber & Digital Investigations (CDI) team at Grant Thornton UK, having over 7 years of experience in the eDiscovery sector and qualifying as both a Relativity Master & Certified Trainer.

Rajan has managed and supported various large-scale reviews for high profile cases, involving multiple government regulators alongside major public and private sector companies. His focus is on providing consultative services to the clients based on their case needs. He assists the clients with choosing the most feasible platforms to facilitate management of their review.

He manages a wide portfolio of projects using advanced AI functionality on various platforms which cover document review, data processing & manipulation, early case assessment and analytics.

His academic background is in Mathematics coming from an Ofsted "Outstanding" graded grammar school before graduating from a Russell Group university.