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Lauren is an associate in the commercial dispute resolution team in London. She works with businesses, individuals and charities across a range of commercial, financial, regulatory and public law matters. She enjoys getting to know her clients to find out what matters to them, so that she can provide tailored advice and practical solutions to support their needs and objectives.

Her practice includes advising on commercial contracts, shareholder and banking disputes, international and cross border matters, debt recovery, tax disputes and a variety of other matters. She has experience representing clients in both High Court and Court of Appeal proceedings.

Lauren joined Penningtons Manches Cooper in May 2022 from another London law firm where she trained, and where she qualified in 2019. Prior to training as a solicitor, Lauren worked at the Financial Ombudsman Service, resolving disputes between consumers and financial businesses and gaining experience of retail banking disputes and financial mis-selling claims. Lauren studied law with Spanish at the University of Sheffield. Her degree included one year studying Spanish law at the University of Valencia.

Recent work highlights

  • Successfully recovering funds on behalf of a corporate client who had been the victim of a third party authorised push payment fraud (APP fraud).
  • Advising policyholders on business interruption insurance disputes in light of the Supreme Court judgment in the FCA test case.
  • Advising and representing banking and wealth management clients in relation to complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service regarding alleged mis-selling and breaches of COB rules.
  • Acting for claimants and defendants in judicial review cases in the Administrative Court.
  • Advising companies and individuals in complex commercial contractual disputes, including resolving such matters via negotiated settlement.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC311575 and is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority under number 419867.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP