Philippa Ellis

Position:
Senior Associate

Specialist Area:
Commercial fraud, Commercial litigation, Financial lines, Insolvency, Insurance & reinsurance

Office:
London

Phone:
020 7293 4659

Email:
pellis@dac.co.uk

Pippa has extensive commercial litigation and dispute resolution experience in both domestic and international markets. She is particularly experienced in: banking; financial services; corporate mergers and acquisitions; professional negligence; insurance; civil fraud and asset tracing.

Pippa joined Davies Arnold Cooper in 1999 having previously worked at Cameron Markby Hewitt and Berwin Leighton where she dealt with substantial commercial disputes involving the conduct of litigation in a number of jurisdictions including coordinating worldwide freezing orders/tracing/enforcement proceedings and in financial institutions related insurance.

Examples of the work undertaken include, advising in relation to the misappropriation of funds by company directors, shareholder disputes, alleged breaches of s151 of the Companies Act, and alleged breach of warranty claims; the obtaining of "Springboard" injunctions against former employees; obtaining injunctions against directors for breach of their fiduciary duty; advising on a successful application by an overseas bank for the stay of proceedings on the grounds of "forum non conveniens"; advising on professional negligence claims; advising Insurers on various claims made by financial institutions for indemnity under E & O policies including the collapse of a multi- million Mutual Fund in the Bahamas, monitoring claims on behalf of Insurers and advising on coverage disputes; advising on claims made by both Insurers and financial institutions under the Bankers Blanket Bond; advising Insurers on “special risk” situations.

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