Claire Hainsworth

Claire has developed a practice advising international financial services on high-value banking disputes, including claims involving cryptoassets and emerging digital technologies.  Her experience includes handling complex litigation often involving multi-jurisdictional elements.  She has a keen interest in the evolving legal landscape surrounding digital assets – see articles on case law developments in this area.  Claire’s work reflects an understanding of the intersection between traditional financial services and innovative technologies.

Claire has extensive experience advising major financial institutions on a wide spectrum of consumer-related disputes involving account misconduct, fraud, data protection and allegations of financial mis-selling.  Claire’s practice also includes pensions litigation, FOS complaints, and group litigation.

More recently, Claire has been involved in advising on UK, EU and US regulatory regimes.  Claire is following the emerging regulation of cryptoassets after the UK published draft legislation expanding its financial regulatory perimeter to include certain cryptoassets-related activities, and its proposals to integrate them into the existing financial services framework.