Christina has over 20 years of experience
in advising on complex cross border,
offshore and domestic High Court
litigation and international arbitration.
Christina also has experience in the
Appeal Courts and advises on all forms of
major commercial, corporate and technology
disputes, often with an international
element. She is results driven and is
known for her commercial and procedural
strategy to ensure the best possible
outcome for clients, either through
dispute resolution, or the court/arbitral
process.
Christina acts for major corporates,
private equity houses, technology
companies, pension funds, financial
institutions, government departments,
entrepreneurs and high-net worth
individuals, with a broad range of
experience across technology,
manufacturing, sport, real estate and
consumer goods. Her cases involve disputes
relating to contractual interpretation,
M&A disputes (warranties, indemnities
and earn-outs), Companies Act matters,
shareholder, partnership and JV disputes,
and often involve serious issues of fraud
and the need for urgent interim injunctive
relief.
Christina also co-leads the UK Technology
Disputes team, having advised both
suppliers and customers on disputes
arising across a range of technology
related issues, including software, cloud
and hosting services, IT consultancy, AI,
IT implementation and transformation and
IT infrastructure. Her advice to clients
in this sector covers the full lifecycle
of a contractual commercial relationship
and involves risk prevention advice in
relation to contract management issues,
change controls and variations; as well as
acting on major disputes relating to the
design, development and implementation of
IT solutions and the termination of IT
supply contracts.
Christina is a committed advocate for
DE&I and is proud to lead AKD
Partners’s UK Leadership Alliance
for Women (LAW), as well as being a member
of AKD Partners’s International LAW
Committee. She is also AKD
Partners’s Gender Pillar Head for
the General Counsel for Diversity &
Inclusion and co-leads our global Women in
Sport initiative and our Women in Tech
initiative.
