Elizabeth Fox

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Shareholder

  Firm Name

  Greenberg Traurig, LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Representative Matters: Represented the first
  main defendant in one of The Lawyer's top 20 cases for 2020,
  one of the largest disputes ever before the Commercial Court, involving alleged secret commissions in the Middle East
  Europe. The case raises important issues of jurisdiction, applicable law,
  Swiss banking secrecy.
  Acting for a HNW judgment creditor in respect of the multi-jurisdictional enforcement of a multimillion-dollar foreign judgment which included asset tracing in several jurisdictions with the use of disclosure orders including in Engl
  
  the United States followed by freezing
  attachment orders.
  Acting for a number of HNW individuals facing allegations of misuse of confidential information.
  Acting for a beneficiary of a trust in relation to beddoe proceedings in Jersey with parallel proceedings in Canada which had at the heart allegations of fraud.
  Acting for a beneficiary of a significant multi-jurisdictional, multimillion-dollar estate in respect of their entitlement under Sharia law.
  Acting in respect of letters of request under the Evidence (Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions) Act 1975 in respect of obtaining the provision of evidence in Engl
  for use in foreign proceedings.
  Acting in a number of confidential international arbitrations including in the ICC
  LCIA involving allegations of breach of contract in a number of different areas including shipping, metals, pharmaceutical
  distribution.
  Acting in a respect of confidential engagement regarding anti-doping breaches in sport.
  Acting for the Administrators of London Capital
  Finance plc wherein it was alleged that LCF acted as a Ponzi scheme
  that hundreds of millions of pounds were misappropriated.
  Acting for London Oil & Gas Limited (in Administration) in [2020] EWHC 35 (Ch) where the administrators' appointment was unsuccessfully challenged.
  Acting for the Applicants in the matter of AA v BB [2021] EWHC 1833 (Ch)which is the leading case regarding the effect of a proprietary freezing order on the payment of legal expenses.
  Acting for an UHNW client defending a claim for knowing receipt
  dishonest assistance with parallel foreign criminal proceedings. Obtained security for costs against a foreign state owned oil company.
  Acting for administrators of companies in proceedings involving a large-scale fraud
  involving the use of the administrators' statutory powers
  injunctive relief.
  Acting for HNW defendants
  their companies who were served with a worldwide freezing order in respect of a claim for secret commissions
  diversion of profits which was settled in the early stages of litigation namely prior to defences being filed.
  Assisting in acting for an UHNW individual in the defence of civil proceedings worth $380m, which resulted in the strike out of the claim
  discharge of a worldwide freezing order at first instance.
  Acting for a company to remove the Chairman of an arbitral tribunal based on an appearance of bias via the English Court.
  Acting for a former director
  company secretary in respect of a claim against them for approximately 50m for unpaid taxes
  NI. As a result of the work undertaken by the team, the claim was eventually struck out on the basis that, having obtained an Unless Order in respect of disclosure, the claimants failed to comply with that order.
  Acting for an employer to secure
  serve an order for the delivery-up of confidential information taken by a former employee
  computer imaging of that employee's electronic devices.
  Advising a number of clients, including in the recruitment sector
  estate agent industry, on claims against former employees
  /or competitors for the theft of business sensitive confidential information, including customer data
  financial information. These cases often include seeking search orders or delivery up orders to secure the return of this information
  restraining injunctions to prevent any further misuse of it.
  Obtained Norwich Pharmacal relief against a number of banks in order to trace into the proceeds of a fraud
  assets purchased with those proceeds.
  Advising a client, with assets in excess of $1 billion, on the resilience of their asset structure to litigation.
  The above representations were h
  led by Ms. Fox prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
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