Hana Tawfik

Hana has acted on a variety of confidential matters including LMAA arbitrations and various commercial disputes resolved in the pre-action stages.

A selection of her experience includes:

• Ancillary applications including applications under section 236 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
• Cross-border commercial arbitration matter.
• Urgent injunction application to prevent the dissemination of confidential information (at BLP)
• Saga v Shokhin, a Russian debt recovery dispute: appeared before a Master in relation to an interim application in the High Court and assisted with subsequent trial preparation (at BLP).
• Bankruptcy hearing and appeal against bankruptcy order (at BLP).

Financial Services

• Ventra v BOS: high value financial services dispute in the Commercial Court. Part of the small legal team representing the joint liquidators in the Commercial Court in a successful s.236 application against the administrative receivers.
• Litigation related at consumer credit and consumer protection legislation (at American Express).

Hana has undertaken investigatory work in relation to theft of confidential information and cyber-security incidents.

She was also part of the legal team which filed a CPR 19.6 representative action in the High Court against Marriott International on behalf of Martin Bryant, representing millions of affected individuals concerning a major data breach involving the Starwood guest reservation database when unknown persons gained access to hundreds of millions of guest records between July 2014 and September 2018.

Hana has acted on a variety of environmental matters, including matters relating to climate change litigation.  

During her time at BLP, Hana supported the legal team working on the National Grid and Scottish Power “follow-on” damages action against members of the high voltage power cables cartel. She also obtained experience working on the renowned Trucks litigation. 

Further experience includes working on the FCA’s investigation into insurance brokers in the aviation sector.