Rebecca Wales

Rebecca’s cases include some of the largest civil fraud disputes before the courts in recent years, including Privatbank v Kolomoisky, Mezhprombank v Pugachev, and BTA v Ablyazov. She has acted on several ground breaking applications in cases setting landmark legal precedents, and has significant experience of pre-emptive and interlocutory relief, including freezing orders, search orders, third party disclosure, pre- and post-judgment receiverships and committal orders for contempt of court.  

Rebecca's experience of international commercial litigation goes far beyond the English court. Many of the disputes she handles involve litigating and enforcing judgments across the globe, including in the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Cyprus and the Cayman Islands, the courts of several EU member states, CIS countries and the Middle East. 

She is a versatile litigator, who is as adept advising on contractual and joint venture disputes, shareholder and corporate litigation, banking fraud, and asset-tracing and recovery.  Over the last two decades she has acted for major financial institutions, liquidators, sovereigns and government agencies, ultra high net worth individuals, investors, and corporates in the energy, telecoms, automotive and food and beverage sectors.

Rebecca also co-heads the firm's award winning pro-bono programme for victims of crime in the UK, including victims of domestic abuse, human trafficking, forced labour and terrorism.