Janine Alexander

Expertise Experience Highlights Career History

Partner

Dispute Resolution

+44 (0)7584248121

Expertise

Janine has over 20 years’ experience of complex commercial and banking disputes acting primarily for investors, borrower, lenders, property developers, property investors, HNW / UHNW individuals and family offices, corporates, SMEs, professionals/insurers and litigation funders. Janine works with clients as early as possible to attempt to resolve issues satisfactorily without the for proceedings but provides robust representation in both litigation and arbitration where necessary to achieve an acceptable outcome.

Janine’s work covers a broad range of sectors including finance, property development and investment, constructions and engineering, infrastructure, shipping, insurance, hospitality, retail, manufacturing and local and central government.

Janine has been recognised in the Legal 500 over the years for both her commercial disputes and banking / financial services disputes work as a lawyer with a “ferocious intellect” who is “tactically very astute” and who is “terrier like in pursuit of her clients’ interest” whilst also being “very easy to deal with” from a client perspective.

Experience includes:

  • Joint venture disputes
  • Shareholder and partnership disputes
  • Property Finance disputes and other secured lending
  • Professional Negligence claims (Claimant and Defendant)
  • Guarantees and bonds (corporate and personal guarantees – cost over-run, interest shortfall, capital).
  • Contract disputes
  • Derivatives disputes (including interest rate, FX, commodities and credit derivatives)
  • Structured finance and asset backed securities (RMBS, CMBS, CDO’s)
  • Benchmark manipulation (LIBOR, ISDAFix, FX)
  • Financial mis-selling claims
  • Funds disputes
  • Financial Ombudsman Service and BBRS claims and judicial review of FOS and FCA decisions
  • Group actions including Shareholder actions under FSMA s90 and s90a
  • Construction disputes
  • Construction contracts
  • Insurance disputes (primarily acting for policyholders)
  • Commercial Judicial review
  • Injunction applications (freezing and disclosure orders, search and seize orders, and antisuit injunctions)
  • Disputes about litigation funding and ATE insurance arrangements

Janine is a strong advocate of mediation and has acted for parties in achieving successful resolution of disputes in many mediations involving several jurisdictions and multiple parties.

Janine also provides advisory services in relation to complex property finance agreements.

Experience Highlights

  • Acting for UHNW individuals and their businesses in respect of a claim for c. £350m relating to benchmark manipulation
  • Acting for a local authority in a claim for >£500m for misrepresentation relating to benchmark manipulation
  • Acting for a European Private Bank in respect of claims against 2 high profile retail and investment banks regarding credit linked notes referencing RMBS
  • Acting for a South Asian pharmaceutical company in respect of a dispute about margin calls totalling c. £21m in respect of currency derivatives
  • Acting for engineers defending a claim for c. £45m in respects of defects in a major motorway structure
  • Acting for an Eastern European entity enforcing an arbitration award in England including applying for a freezing order in respect of funds passing through European clearing system and co-ordination of enforcement efforts in other jurisdictions
  • Acting for numerous corporates and SMEs in disputes with retail banks regarding interest rate derivatives (swaps, collars and caps) ranging from c. £1m to £100m+
  • Acting for numerous entities regarding personal and corporate guarantees given in respect of property investment and development funding in Ireland in the wake of the global financial crisis and in respect of the sale of those loans as part of the portfolios to non-lender entities
  • Acting for an importation business challenging margins calls made in respect of complex currency derivatives as a result of market volatility arising from Brexit
  • Acting for a litigation funder defending an application by a defendant bank for security for costs in the amount of c. £20m
  • Acting for a stockbroker regarding judicial review of FOS decisions regarding alleged regulatory breaches and associated s166 investigation/report
  • Acting for an Indian company seeking an anti-suit injunction to restrain proceedings brought by a European Bank regarding currency derivatives in favour of proceedings in India
  • Acting for a partner in a Joint Venture relating to ABS restructuring and claims management in a multi-jurisdictional dispute with another partner regarding the ability to terminate the relevant agreements
  • Acting for a shareholder / partner and connected entities seeking an anti-suit injunction to restrain proceedings in England in favour of courts in various US jurisdictions in respect of a joint venture dispute regarding a European private hospital
  • Advising a multinational hospitality group regarding an internal investigation into senior management conduct

Career History

Previous Law Firms

  • Collyer Bristow LLP, Partner
  • Beale and Company
  • DJ Freeman

Education

  • University of Durham

Expertise

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Janine has over 20 years’ experience of complex commercial and banking disputes acting primarily for investors, borrower, lenders, property developers, property investors, HNW / UHNW individuals and family offices, corporates, SMEs, professionals/insurers and litigation funders. Janine works with clients as early as possible to attempt to resolve issues satisfactorily without the for proceedings but provides robust representation in both litigation and arbitration where necessary to achieve an acceptable outcome.

Janine’s work covers a broad range of sectors including finance, property development and investment, constructions and engineering, infrastructure, shipping, insurance, hospitality, retail, manufacturing and local and central government.

Janine has been recognised in the Legal 500 over the years for both her commercial disputes and banking / financial services disputes work as a lawyer with a “ferocious intellect” who is “tactically very astute” and who is “terrier like in pursuit of her clients’ interest” whilst also being “very easy to deal with” from a client perspective.

Experience includes:

  • Joint venture disputes
  • Shareholder and partnership disputes
  • Property Finance disputes and other secured lending
  • Professional Negligence claims (Claimant and Defendant)
  • Guarantees and bonds (corporate and personal guarantees – cost over-run, interest shortfall, capital).
  • Contract disputes
  • Derivatives disputes (including interest rate, FX, commodities and credit derivatives)
  • Structured finance and asset backed securities (RMBS, CMBS, CDO’s)
  • Benchmark manipulation (LIBOR, ISDAFix, FX)
  • Financial mis-selling claims
  • Funds disputes
  • Financial Ombudsman Service and BBRS claims and judicial review of FOS and FCA decisions
  • Group actions including Shareholder actions under FSMA s90 and s90a
  • Construction disputes
  • Construction contracts
  • Insurance disputes (primarily acting for policyholders)
  • Commercial Judicial review
  • Injunction applications (freezing and disclosure orders, search and seize orders, and antisuit injunctions)
  • Disputes about litigation funding and ATE insurance arrangements

Janine is a strong advocate of mediation and has acted for parties in achieving successful resolution of disputes in many mediations involving several jurisdictions and multiple parties.

Janine also provides advisory services in relation to complex property finance agreements.

Experience Highlights

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  • Acting for UHNW individuals and their businesses in respect of a claim for c. £350m relating to benchmark manipulation
  • Acting for a local authority in a claim for >£500m for misrepresentation relating to benchmark manipulation
  • Acting for a European Private Bank in respect of claims against 2 high profile retail and investment banks regarding credit linked notes referencing RMBS
  • Acting for a South Asian pharmaceutical company in respect of a dispute about margin calls totalling c. £21m in respect of currency derivatives
  • Acting for engineers defending a claim for c. £45m in respects of defects in a major motorway structure
  • Acting for an Eastern European entity enforcing an arbitration award in England including applying for a freezing order in respect of funds passing through European clearing system and co-ordination of enforcement efforts in other jurisdictions
  • Acting for numerous corporates and SMEs in disputes with retail banks regarding interest rate derivatives (swaps, collars and caps) ranging from c. £1m to £100m+
  • Acting for numerous entities regarding personal and corporate guarantees given in respect of property investment and development funding in Ireland in the wake of the global financial crisis and in respect of the sale of those loans as part of the portfolios to non-lender entities
  • Acting for an importation business challenging margins calls made in respect of complex currency derivatives as a result of market volatility arising from Brexit
  • Acting for a litigation funder defending an application by a defendant bank for security for costs in the amount of c. £20m
  • Acting for a stockbroker regarding judicial review of FOS decisions regarding alleged regulatory breaches and associated s166 investigation/report
  • Acting for an Indian company seeking an anti-suit injunction to restrain proceedings brought by a European Bank regarding currency derivatives in favour of proceedings in India
  • Acting for a partner in a Joint Venture relating to ABS restructuring and claims management in a multi-jurisdictional dispute with another partner regarding the ability to terminate the relevant agreements
  • Acting for a shareholder / partner and connected entities seeking an anti-suit injunction to restrain proceedings in England in favour of courts in various US jurisdictions in respect of a joint venture dispute regarding a European private hospital
  • Advising a multinational hospitality group regarding an internal investigation into senior management conduct

Career History

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Previous Law Firms

  • Collyer Bristow LLP, Partner
  • Beale and Company
  • DJ Freeman

Education

  • University of Durham