Christa Band

Partner, litigation and arbitration

London

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christa.band@herbertsmith.com
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+44 20 7466 2158

Christa Band

Christa's practice covers a wide variety of general commercial litigation with a particular emphasis on banking and financial services litigation including advice and litigation in relation to the contractual and other duties of banks, bond issues, derivatives, enforcement of security, constructive trust and asset recovery claims..
 
She has acted for those subject to DTI, SFA, PIA, Stock Exchange, Bank of England and FSA investigations, contested disciplinary proceedings and appeals, advising on judicial review of the regulators’ decisions and the professional negligence, d&o and e&o insurance policy issues which arise in such claims. She has been involved in advising the SIB, the SEC and the London Stock Exchange.

Christa has considerable experience of corporate fraud litigation (from the civil perspective) including professional negligence, breach of trust, constructive trust and breach of statutory duty claims together with asset tracing and recovery. She has been involved in litigation relating to Maxwell, BCCI, Polly Peck, Enron, Barings and Parmalat

Christa was temporary lecturer in law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and is qualified as a Solicitor Advocate with full rights of audience in the higher Courts.

Credentials

  • Goldman Sachs in respect of injunction proceedings from Mannesmann seeking to prevent Goldman Sachs acting for Vodafone in any potential hostile takeover of Mannesmann
  • Price Waterhouse in relation to the litigation brought by the BCCI Liquidators, initially involving a claim against Price Waterhouse of approximately US$11 billion
  • BAT plc: Philip Morris Products Inc v. Rothmans International Enterprises Ltd
  • Securities & Investment Board: review of the responsibilities on senior management

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