Natalie is a senior dispute resolution lawyer with extensive experience advising on complex, high-value and multi-jurisdictional commercial and construction disputes. She represents businesses, investors and individuals in litigation, international arbitration, and regulatory matters, with a particular expertise in disputes involving cross-border assets, major projects and sensitive allegations.
Having trained and practised at DLA Piper in the UK and Middle East, worked in-house for a local authority, and previously been part of a start-up team, she understands the pressures clients face when disputes threaten their business, reputation or plans for the future.
Her experience includes contract disputes, franchise disputes, debt recovery, energy disputes and commercial fraud matters. Natalie advises clients across a multitude of sectors including advertising, education, hospitality, IT, retail and manufacturing. Natalie is known for providing clear, strategic advice in high-pressure situations, whether the aim is to achieve an early commercial settlement or pursue a claim through to a final hearing.
“I enjoy helping clients take control of difficult disputes by combining robust legal analysis with practical, results-driven advice. My focus is always on understanding what matters most to the client and finding the most effective route to achieve it.”
Natalie combines technical legal expertise with a pragmatic, commercially focused approach. She is a personable, motivated, organised and professional person.
Career highlights include:
- Acting for two prominent real estate entrepreneurs in a 1 billion USD LCIA India arbitration concerning major real estate projects in India and interests in companies incorporated in the UK, British Virgin Islands and Mauritius;
- Representing a prominent Indian real estate entrepreneur in a 530 million USD dispute involving parallel proceedings in the London Commercial Court and an LCIA arbitration seated in Singapore;
- Acting for a large African bank in 300 million USD debt recovery proceedings against a corporate guarantor;
- Representing a technology business in a Part 8 claim to recover funds held by a former contractor;
- Advising a franchisor on the enforcement of post-termination restrictive covenants against a former franchisee, following the commencement of proceedings and managing the next stages of the litigation;
- Representing a luxury apparel business in a claim against an independent manufacturer for repudiatory breach of contract, following a breakdown in a key production relationship.
Natalie is married with two children. Outside work, she enjoys cooking for friends and family and walking in the local Welsh hills with her Labrador, Honey.
