Maggie Christiansen

Maggie is a Legal Director in the Commercial Litigation group, with extensive experience advising clients on disputes arising out of commercial contracts, mergers and acquisitions, fraud and misrepresentation actions as well as agency agreements and professional negligence claims.

She specialises in complex and often cross-jurisdictional commercial litigation across all sectors, but with a particular focus on civil aviation, transport and logistics, oil and gas and finance and banking.  

In addition to commercial litigation, Maggie helps lead the sanctions team at Mishcon de Reya, and has in-depth knowledge and experience of advising both corporate and individual clients on their sanctions compliance, obtaining specific licences from the appropriate authorities and contractual management of said risks, as well as the follow-on civil disputes which can arise as a result. Maggie has also spent considerable time seconded in-house with the compliance teams of major global engineering and logistics companies.

Maggie has been recognised as a "Future Leader in Litigation" by Who's Who Legal.

Key Experience

• Advising a global logistics and shipping entity in relation to the implications of sanctions being imposed on various commercial counterparties, and the various follow-on disputes which arose as a result.
• Acting on behalf of the administrators to a collapsed UK fund in relation to professional negligence claims against various professional advisors.
• Advising a global financial institution on its defence of claims brought by liquidators of Icelandic banks seeking rescission of historic bond trades in the lead up to financial crisis. This dispute took place in the Icelandic courts but concerned complex issues of English law on bond trading practices and insolvency clawback procedures.
• Acting for a leading UK passenger transport plc on its successful defence against alleged wrongful termination of an operator agreement.
• Advising a major global engineering plc on its termination of a large volume of third-party distribution agreements and managing the follow-on disputes that arose as a result (both arbitration and litigation).
• Advising a major UK alcoholic beverage plc in a share purchase agreement dispute which arose following the acquisition of another beverage entity.
• Advising high net worth individuals on claims involving agency agreements on the sale, design and build of private jets and superyachts.

Career History

Legal Director, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Managing Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Senior Associate, Hogan Lovells International LLP
BPP Law School, London, Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course
Durham University, BA in English Literature