Nadia Osborne

I have expertise in a wide range of complex commercial litigation, both domestic and cross-jurisdictional. As a multi-specialist, my work covers various practices and substantive areas, including director/shareholder disputes, civil fraud, cross border insolvency (representing creditors, debtors and insolvency practitioners), international arbitration and group actions. My experience spans cases that have gone to both court and arbitral trials (in England, the USA and Iceland) as well as applications for injunctive relief or other interlocutory relief. I have a particular interest in disputes involving an international element and working with foreign counsel and as a consequence, the majority of my caseload has an international dimension and I regularly work alongside and co-counsel with lawyers in other jurisdictions.

• Advising a New York listed entity on its D&O policy coverage in respect of a €60m fraud against a German subsidiary involving entities / persons based in the Far East.

• Advising five former directors on issuing protective claims in England against former professional advisors in the context of a €1.4bn claim being brought in Germany by an insolvency administrator.
  
• Acting for a Georgian national, who is one of five named defendants in two complex High Court claims for breach of contract and unlawful means conspiracy (CL-2020-000756 and BL-2023-000303), which includes challenges to jurisdiction and service.
  
• Advising joint administrators on, and securing recovery of, a debt owed to an insolvent entity.
  
• Acting in respect of a complex shareholder/director dispute in the context of a £20m property portfolio which involves a just and equitable winding up petition, a statutory demand and successfully resisting an application to set it aside and various related issues in dispute.
  
• Advising a Thai registered entity on a contracting entity’s insolvency and wrongful trading, in the context of $1.5m of losses, liaising with IPs and the Official Receiver.
  
• Advising joint liquidators in circumstances where their appointment in respect of a members’ voluntary liquidation was objected to by an individual claiming to be the actual owner and director of the company concerned and acting as mediator, alongside one of the joint liquidator, to reach an amicable resolution between the two opposing parties regarding the distribution of the remaining company assets.
  
• Advising directors of a multimillion pound business in the context of a family dispute on the terms of a share purchase agreement and a threatened s994 unfair prejudice claim.
  
• Acting for a non-Executive Director in respect of a £37.6 million claim for breach of directors’ duties (statutory and fiduciary) brought by Joint Liquidators.
• Representing a Bahamian bank on a jurisdictional challenge in the English courts.
• Acting on behalf of a subsidiary of a UK Listed energy company in relation to two complex and interlinked international arbitrations relating to an oil and gas concession.
• Advising on termination of aircraft leasing agreements and seeking ex parte interim arrest and possession injunctions for non-payment of lease fees.
• Acted for a financial services regulator in pursing recoveries in excess of £400 million in relation to a complex corporate structure of a failed property fund subject to jurisdictions of various Caribbean countries. Work done involved local and cross border insolvency issues and on-going management of claims both in and outside the UK including formal insolvency processes and civil litigation.