Rebecca Burton

About me

Rebecca is a Counsel in the Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations team in London. She works in cross-practice and cross-border teams to advise multinational clients from a range of sectors including financial services and commodities. She assists clients on various contentious and advisory matters including commercial litigation, ESG litigation, competition litigation, shareholder disputes and financial regulatory investigations.

In addition to working in the firm’s London office, Rebecca has spent time working in the firm’s Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations teams in Singapore and Hong Kong and has completed client secondments with a global investment bank and a multinational oil and gas company. Rebecca is part of the firm’s ESG Disputes working group.

Work highlights

Rebecca’s experience includes:

• Acting for a multinational telecommunications company in its defence of competition litigation proceedings brought by the administrators of Phones4U alleging collusion between multiple UK-based network operators and their European parent entities to cease supplying Phones4U.
• Advising the subsidiary of a global bank in connection with a dispute arising from a high value securitised loan.
• Acting for an overseas subsidiary and its UK holding company in defending English civil litigation proceedings brought on behalf of 22 Peruvian nationals in connection with alleged human rights abuses.
• Advising a global financial institution on emerging ESG litigation and enforcement risks.
• Advising a consumer goods company on the defence of securities litigation brought in connection with historical investigations of anti-competitive practices.
• Advising a commodity trading company on potential English civil proceedings relating to unfair prejudice and conspiracy claims.
• Acting for a global financial institution on its defence of large group litigation relating to alleged competition law breaches concerning FX trading.