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Vanessa Whitman is a London-based Partner in CMS’ leading Finance Disputes team, with 20 years’ experience navigating complex finance and insolvency disputes, including advising her clients on how best to avoid or mitigate them. She advises banks, payment services providers, and insolvency professionals on a wide range of contentious matters and has a growing practice at the forefront of FinTech and crypto disputes.
Vanessa also has significant experience advising clients on Serious Fraud Office investigations and other fraud-related matters. As a junior lawyer, Vanessa assisted a bank client uncover, and recover from, Britain’s largest mortgage fraud. In recent years, she went on to successfully defend a £300m follow-on civil claim for the same client arising from the same fraud, at a five-week Commercial Court trial.
Vanessa is a committed advocate for diversity and inclusion, as well as mental health and wellbeing, both within the legal profession and beyond.
