Professional Bio:

Amita is a dedicated litigator and commercial chancery barrister, focusing on dispute resolution, domestic/cross-border insolvency, and general commercial work. She regularly represents a diverse range of clients (onshore and offshore), including insolvency professionals, companies, trustees, directors, asset-based lenders, and banks. Amita provides comprehensive legal support on issues such as insolvency, cross-border issues, company law, fraud title disputes, misrepresentation, and professional negligence. Her experience extends to advising on insolvency procedures, antecedent transactions, and directors’ disqualifications.

Clients turn to Amita for her strategic and diligent approach to complex insolvency matters, and banking and finance litigation. She has experience in navigating both domestic and cross-border asset tracing, disputes arising from insolvent mutual and private equity funds, asset, and security recovery in foreign jurisdictions (including BVI, Cayman, and the U.S.), and international fraud and financial crime cases.

Amita’s practical experience is bolstered by her previous offshore practice in Jersey (Channel Islands) and before that at a large global law firm headquartered in the US. Additionally, she has experience in complex and high-value commercial, insolvency, and trust litigation, both onshore and offshore. Amita’s active involvement in the global field of insolvency includes committee roles at INSOL and IWIRC, which underscore her dedication to the field of insolvency.

Amita’s active involvement in the global field of insolvency includes committee roles at INSOL and IWIRC, which underscore her dedication to the field of insolvency.

Representative Matters

• Acting for the joint liquidators of JJW Limited (registered in Guernsey, in liquidation) in an appeal arising out of the long-running BVI liquidation of MBI International & Partners. The Court of Appeal set aside the High Court’s order that equitable compensation of c.€67m be paid to the BVI liquidators by JJW Limited (and another appellant on a joint and several basis) and confirmed that a director remains subject to continuing fiduciary duties post liquidation (when transferring assets owned by that company) on the basis that the director is an “intermeddler.” The Court of Appeal’s decision bears wider significance as it was based on English authorities, though it concerned a BVI company (Mitchell v. Al Jaber [2024] EWCA Civ 423, [2024] BCC 934).
• Acting for a Ukrainian individual in English proceedings against Cyprus entities in a claim of approximately £1.1m relating to non-payment under a loan agreement (LM-2024-000194 – Pavlo Lavryk v. (1) Greatford Limited (2) ABH Ukraine Limited).