OVERVIEW
Josie is our In-House Counsel, advising the firm on a range of risk and compliance, regulatory and other legal issues. She provides support across the business including to the firm’s management and operations teams.
Josie first joined Hausfeld as a dispute resolution lawyer specialising in commercial litigation and was promoted to Senior Associate in January 2022. In 2024, she transitioned into her current role.
Expertise
Josie trained and qualified at international law firm King & Wood Mallesons where she acted on a wide range of contentious and advisory matters including breach of warranty and other contractual claims, shareholder and private equity disputes, follow-on damages actions. Alongside her commercial dispute resolution practice, Josie has experience in EU competition and regulatory, banking and finance, and general contract, commerce and technology work.
Prior to joining Hausfeld, Josie practiced in the complex litigation group at Arnold & Porter for several years. She has acted for clients in proceedings in the County Court, High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
Clients
Josie has worked with a wide range of clients, from high net worth individuals to international corporations, across a variety of sectors including financial services, private equity and asset management, insurance, technology, advertising and media, hospitality, shipping and construction.
EDUCATION
Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School
BA (Hons) Law with French and French Law, University of Nottingham
Licence (L1/L2) Droit, Université de Toulouse I Capitole
BAR ADMISSIONS
Solicitor, England and Wales, 2016
EVENTS
Experience
Commercial & Financial Disputes
Josie’s experience includes:
- Acting for petitioners in high value Section 994 proceedings relating to the affairs of the holding company of the well-known Radisson Edwardian hotel chain in the London High Court. The team successfully obtained a buyout order against majority holders. (Estera Trust (Jersey) Limited & Anor v Singh & Ors [2018] EWHC 1715 (Ch); [2019] EWHC 873 (Ch); [2019] EWHC 2039 (Ch).)
- Acting for a large heavy equipment manufacturer making and defending corresponding applications to the Commercial Court, with a combined value of USD 700 million, for leave to appeal under Section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996.
- Acting for a high-net-worth individual defending proceedings brought by a Kazakhstan state-owned corporate involving allegations of breach of contract, dishonesty and fraud.
- Acting for Bluewaters Communications Holdings at the pre-action stage and in issuing a claim against Bernie Ecclestone, Bayerische Landesbank and others related to the sale of a controlling stake in Formula One.
- Acting for private equity house claimant in proceedings against a consortium of underwriters relating to the terms of a buyer-side warranty and indemnity insurance policy.
- Acting for a high net worth individual in a claim against the Bank of Scotland PLC for damages of more than £1 billion in respect of alleged misrepresentations relating to the manipulation of LIBOR.
- Advising individual clients in the private equity and asset management sectors at the pre-action stages of disputes relating to partnership terms and non-payment of carried interest and profit share.
- Acting for a UK-based jewellery wholesale distributor to successfully recover commercial debts from non-paying customers in the US.
Technology & Data Breach
Josie was part of the Hausfeld 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.
- Filed a CPR 19.6 representative action in the High Court against Facebook Inc. As part of its business model Facebook allowed third parties to access users’ personal info without their knowledge or consent, opening it up to potential abuse by the likes of Cambridge Analytica and others.
Antitrust/Competition
- Worked as part of a team acting for a consortium of claimants in the lead up to trial in a complex multi-party follow-on damages action.
Human Rights
Josie's human rights and pro bono experience includes:
- Work in conjunction with Kids in Need of Defence (UK) representing undocumented minors and their families.
- Acting on a third party intervention in judicial review proceedings before the Supreme Court R (on the application of C) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Respondent) [2017] UKSC 72.
- Acting on a third party intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in a hate-speech case against Armenia (59180/15 Lili Minasyan and Ors v Armenia).
- Work with the London Commercial Litigators’ Forum for the National Pro Bono Centre.
- Volunteer with the Citizens Advice Bureau, Royal Courts of Justice.
