Senior Associate
Vanessa is a senior associate in the Financial Services Disputes and Investigations team and joined TLT in 2009.
She has extensive experience acting for financial services organisations including clearing banks, title insurers and lenders, advising on a range of complex and high value banking litigation matters.
Vanessa has been on secondment to the legal department of a major high street bank and uses this experience to help drive commercial outcomes for clients.
Vanessa has experience of managing remediation projects for major financial institutions. Her work also involves disputes arising out of personal and corporate lending, professional negligence claims arising out of commercial and residential property transactions, breach and enforcement of contracts, financial crime and fraud, complex recovery issues, Consumer Credit Act claims and mis-selling of financial investments.
She regularly advises clients on challenges to their terms and conditions and matters that carry sensitive, reputational and portfolio risk.
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
Experience
Related sectors
Financial Services
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Dispute Resolution
Financial services litigation
Professional negligence
Insights & events
FCA consults on overhaul of consumer credit financial promotion rules
SFO secures £10m DPA – what this means for corporates
Crime and Policing Act 2026: Expansion of senior manager criminal liability
FCA Synthetic Data and Anti-Money Laundering project report: Key points for financial services firms
Contract management from a litigation perspective: Preparing for when things go wrong
SM&CR reform: HM Treasury announces Senior Managers and Certification Regime reforms
FCA's findings on Customer Due Diligence processes and controls: Good and poor practices
FCA and PRA publish final rules on operational incident reporting: firms have to ready by 18 March 2027
FCA finalises Phase 1 SM&CR reforms: what firms need to do now
PRA publishes Phase 1 SM&CR reforms: What firms need to know now
FCA puts inactive appointed representatives under the microscope
SFO publishes business plan for 2025-26: Geared for the future
FCA sets expectations for stronger outcome‑focused governance in Year 3 Consumer Duty board reporting
FCA's guidance on targeted support in consumer segment design: considerations for firms
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European Access Plan: Your gateway to business in the EU
Important changes to insolvency law and creditor enforcement
Guide to the UK Government proposed reforms to the corporate insolvency regime
How competitors can work together to protect the economy and consumers from the coronavirus crisis
TLT acts for Pollen Street Capital on acquisition of Leonard Curtis
TLT continues growth of financial services regulatory team with appointment of new partner
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TLT highly commended for Litigation Team of the Year at The Lawyer Awards 2024
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Ainslie Benzie named Finance Rising Star of the Year at The Legal 500 Scotland Awards
TLT expands commercial dispute resolution team in Scotland
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The Future Fund - one month on | Scale-up insights episode eight
Scale-up Insights episode six - Employee incentives
When good tax decisions go wrong: Governance, filing positions and HMRC scrutiny - Webinar
International Fintech Case Study: Brexit Contract Migration | TLT
Preparing for the Procurement Act 2023 - construction industry focus
Document automation for in-house legal teams | Contract management
