Lucy Caton

Lucy is an Associate in the Finance & Banking Disputes team and a member of the Commercial Litigation group. She specialises in financial services and civil fraud disputes.

Lucy has a broad range of commercial litigation experience in high-value, multijurisdictional complex English Court proceedings across a wide variety of sectors, including cases in the Commercial Court, Insolvency and Companies Court, and Court of Appeal, acting for both individual and corporate clients. Lucy's practice includes pre-action dispute resolution for individuals on de-banking matters.

Lucy is a member of the Young Fraud Lawyers Association and the London Solicitors Litigation Association.  Lucy is a member of the Firm's Steering Committee on Gender and contributes to Firm pro-bono initiatives.

Key Experience

• Successfully defended a director in multimillion pound claim brought by a litigation funder, including securing a significant security for costs order against the claimant.
• Acting for claimant company in multi-million pound breach of directors duties dispute, involving allegations of dishonesty, conspiracy and multiple applications for injunctive relief.
• Acting for transport company in multijurisdictional breach of contract claim.
• Representing multiple HNW individuals in relation to confidential dispute resolution regarding the withdrawal of banking facilities.
• Successfully defending a Luxembourg entity in a multi-million pound share sale dispute including navigating complex sanctions issues and the enforcement of costs orders.
• Acted for the Administrators of London Capital & Finance PLC (assisting the Administrators investigate the collapse of LCF in circumstances where it owes creditors in excess of £230million)
• Acted for claimant in cross border £35 million breach of contract claim, including service and enforcement in multiple jurisdictions.
• Acted for global company in unlawful means conspiracy dispute where millions of pounds were misappropriated and successfully obtaining freezing orders, search orders, and imaging orders.
• Acted for financial services firm in relation to disputed margin calls against a prime brokerage company.
• Acted for Turkish mining company in a dispute relating to English company law claims.
• Acted for film production and finance companies in dispute against actor relating to the collapse of a sci-fi film.

Career History

Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Trainee, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Paralegal, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Legal Assistant, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP
BPP University Law School, Legal Practice Course
University of Bristol, LLB Law with Study in Continental Europe
Université de Poitiers, Diplôme Universitaire d’Études Juridiques Françaises (Erasmus)

Articles and Publications

• A juicy agreement: The implication of pricing terms in commercial contracts
• Claimants, beware! ATE Policies may not save you if there is reason to believe you are not able to meet an adverse costs order