Anna is an Associate Director in Osborne Clarke's Restructuring & Insolvency Group. She qualified in 2009 and joined Osborne Clarke in March 2018.
Anna has a broad range of experience in domestic and cross-border insolvency and restructuring issues, in particular, consensual and non-consensual restructurings (including schemes of arrangement), liquidations, receiverships and security enforcement. She advises all key stakeholders in financially distressed circumstances including banks, funds, shareholders, directors and insolvency practitioners. She has particular expertise in assisting investors, creditors, managers and independent directors of distressed funds and has litigation experience in relation to fund, shareholder and financial services disputes.
Having spent time as a Knowledge Lawyer Director within Osborne Clarke's Financial Institutions Group, Anna has experience across a range of (regulated and unregulated) financial services clients including FinTechs, payment providers, asset managers, custodians, banks, investment platforms and consumer finance firms. In that role she has also developed expertise in designing and delivering training programs for clients, producing practical updates and briefing notes on key legal developments and implementing technology to give clients easy access to know-how and other resources. Anna has commented on developments within the sphere of payments, funds, consumer credit and financial services law and regulation, and has contributed to several industry publications and public consultations.
Anna trained at Clifford Chance LLP and qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2009. She was admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands in 2014.
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