Hana Tawfik

Senior Associate
London

OVERVIEW

Hana focuses primarily on commercial disputes, with experience in international cross-border disputes.

Expertise

Since joining Hausfeld, she has worked on arbitral proceedings, commercial litigation and high value financial services disputes.

During her training with BLP, she also obtained experience in contentious and non-contentious work including antitrust and competition, real estate and corporate tax besides her work on general commercial disputes. Prior to undertaking her training contact, Hana worked in the litigation team in the General Counsel’s Organisation at American Express.

Hana is a founding member of our firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

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).
- A Ukrainian aviation business in insurance claims in respect of aircraft lost during the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
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.

At Hausfeld, Hana is part of the legal team which is:
- Representing the Environmental Law Foundation in an intervention in the Supreme Court between a water company operating in the Northwest of England (United Utilities) and the operators of the Manchester Shipping Canal in a crucial challenge aimed at increasing access to justice for those affected by the “sewage dumping” activities of water companies.
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.