Clare Stothard

Since joining Matthew Arnold & Baldwin’s Dispute Resolution team, Clare has built an outstanding reputation as a commercial litigator particularly in acting for retail banks and financial institutions. She now heads up the Banking & Finance Litigation team.

As well as specialising in pre-emptive relief particularly in fraud related disputes, she has extensive experience of dealing with complex security issues and enforcement, breach of contract, fraud and misrepresentation, numerous O'Brien/Etridge cases and professional negligence actions against valuers, surveyors and solicitors.

She has defended a wide range of claims against banks including claims for breach of confidentiality, breach of mandate, misrepresentation, defamation, mismanagement of a share portfolio and sales of various types of property at an undervalue.

Her clients include Barclays Bank, Capstone, Woolwich, Ocean Finance, GE Money and many others. More about Clare...