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Elizabeth Pouget

Senior Associate

About

Elizabeth is a senior associate in Burges Salmon’s Dispute Resolution team, specialising in complex commercial and financial disputes. She acts for banks, lenders, investment funds and corporate clients, with particular experience in banking and finance litigation, professional negligence claims, contractual and corporate disputes, debt and security enforcement, and contentious financial services matters.

Elizabeth has significant experience of High Court litigation and alternative dispute resolution, including mediation. Her work frequently involves cross-border and international issues. She takes a commercial and strategic approach, focused on understanding her clients’ objectives and identifying the most effective route to resolution.

Alongside her core contentious practice, Elizabeth also regularly works with the firm’s banking and finance teams to advise financial institutions on the dispute resolution and enforcement aspects of high-value cross-border secured lending transactions, including jurisdiction, enforceability and enforcement options where parties and assets are located across multiple jurisdictions.

Elizabeth gained valuable in-house experience during a secondment to the Commercial Banking Litigation team at Lloyds Banking Group, giving her first-hand insight into the priorities of institutional clients and the importance of managing disputes in a proportionate and commercially focused way.

Elizabeth holds degrees and academic prizes from the University of Oxford, the University of Bristol and the University of Law.

Experience

Advising a Luxembourg-based private bank on a complex cross-border lending dispute involving approximately €4 million of lending, including enforcement options across multiple European jurisdictions, complex trust and security arrangements and settlement negotiations.
Acting for a US-based investment fund in a complex contractual dispute concerning funding arrangements involving a Cayman Islands fund and UK counterparties.
Acting for a specialist lender in substantial High Court proceedings concerning enforcement of personal guarantees given in connection with secured lending, including obtaining summary judgment and pursuing bankruptcy and corporate insolvency proceedings as part of the wider recovery strategy.
Acting for specialist lenders in significant professional negligence claims arising from secured development lending, including claims against professional advisers in connection with two substantial development projects and associated loan facilities.
Advising a corporate client in a complex shareholder dispute concerning the exercise of minority shareholder rights, corporate governance arrangements and the valuation and potential exit of a minority shareholding.
Advising an international corporate client on disputes arising from an M&A transaction, including claims under a sale and purchase agreement concerning alleged breaches of warranty and leakage, and related contractual and post-completion issues.