Josie Greener

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.