Derval Walsh

Key Experience

• Acting for The ECU Group Plc in Commercial Court proceedings against various HSBC entities for unlawful foreign exchange trading practices, specifically front running and misuse of confidential client information.

• Acting for Duet Group Ltd in Commercial Court proceedings brought by Barthélemy Holdings LLC. These proceedings were part of a wider dispute, with claims in Luxembourg, France and the US, all arising in connection with complex loan arrangements put in place by Colony Capital.
• Acting for Spanish Public Company FCC SA in a dispute concerning rights and obligations under €450,000,000 unsecured convertible loan notes.
• Advising OJSC URALSIB BANK in High Court proceedings involving rights attaching to US$100 million in loan participation notes.
• Acting for various borrowers involved in property acquisition finance disputes.
• Acting for the collateral advisor and collateral manager of a SIV-lite investment fund in respect of English law governed proceedings brought in New York by mezzanine capital note holders in the fund.
• Acting for a Cypriot company in respect of a breach by a counterparty of the terms of an ISDA-governed option agreement.
• Acting for a leading investment bank in Commercial Court proceedings regarding a debt arising out of a transaction on the interbank money market.

Career History

Partner, Mishcon de Reya
Solicitor, White & Case
Qualified, Solicitor, Herbert Smith
BCL Masters Degree, Oxford University
LLB (1st class honours), Trinity College Dublin