Rosie Wild

Partner

Tel: +44(0) 20 7148 7405

Email: rosie.wild@cyklaw.com

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“Recognised by The Legal 500 as a “star” who is “extremely smart” with “a great eye for strategy” and by Who’s Who Legal as a “Future Leader”, Rosie specialises in high-value, complex international commercial disputes with particular expertise in civil fraud and asset recovery. Rosie worked on the case in which CYK obtained England’s first worldwide freezing injunction of assets of ‘persons unknown’ ”.

Rosie has a wide range of experience of high value litigation and arbitration cases.  She has particular experience in civil fraud, shareholder disputes including unfair prejudice petitions, and issues of contractual interpretation.

Rosie has been involved on a number of ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, HKIAC and SIAC arbitrations and has experience of commercial arbitrations, particularly in the oil and gas sector, as well as a number of investment treaty arbitrations. Rosie also has significant experience dealing with financial complex products and has spent time on secondment to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA).

Background

Rosie read Law with Law Studies in Europe at Oxford University, obtained her Certificat Supérieur de Droit at Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas and was a scholar of Somerville College. Rosie obtained a distinction on her LPC. During her LPC, Rosie took part in the annual VIS International Arbitration moot where she was a quarter-finalist and received an individual award.

Rosie regularly takes part in pro bono work, focussing in particular on student mentoring and was a governor of a secondary school in Islington for four years.

What the directories say

Rosie is ranked by Chambers for Civil Fraud work in in their “Up and Coming” category

Rosie is recognised by Who’s Who Legal as a “Future Leader”

“Very friendly, professional, knowledgeable and has a great eye for strategy”, “a commendable practitioner with excellent credentials” and “a huge asset to the firm”, Chambers 2024

Rosie is recognised as a “key lawyer” for Civil Fraud, Banking Litigation, Commercial Litigation and Commodities Disputes by Legal500

“Rosie Wild is an extremely smart lawyer, who will never give up until a solution is found” and who “is intellectually immense industry leader who is hardworking and a fantastic to work with” and “absolutely a name to watch … She is an exceptional leader, with a wealth and depth of litigation expertise of a much more seasoned litigator’, Legal500 2024

Professional groups

Rosie currently holds a position on the Extended Bureau of the International Association for Young Lawyers (AIJA), having previously been the President of the Litigation Commission.

Her professional memberships include the Fraud Lawyers Association, Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association, the London Solicitors Litigation Association and the Law Society.

Speaking engagements

  • Panellist ‘The A-Z of Asset Recovery’, Thought Leaders 4 FIRE, Cambridge University (August 2024)
  • Panellist ‘Fraud lawyers’ power hour, London International Disputes Week (June 2024)
  • Panellist ‘Tracing digital assets – learn from the experts’, International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) (April 2024)
  • Panellist ‘Pursuing Fraudsters Internationally from England & Wales: Recent Developments’, Thought Leaders 4 FIRE, Dublin (February 2023)

Publications, articles and seminars

Languages

  • French (intermediate)
  • German (basic)

Recent articles

A Brief Guide to Anti-Suit Injunctions and Related Relief
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The burden of reimbursement for APP fraud
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A UK Fraud Mandatory Reimbursement Scheme: New Rules, Powers and Bank Burdens
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Cases of Note

  • Acting for Chinese and Chilean clients in relation to an alleged $1bn+ fraud claim.

  • Successfully obtaining an Anti-Suit, Anti-Anti-Suit and Anti-Enforcement injunction for a European bank against a Russian bank prohibiting proceedings in the Russian Courts brought in breach of an LCIA arbitration clause.

  • Advising clients in relation to a high profile contractual dispute named in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2022.

  • Successfully defending a foreign investment fund against multi-million pound bribery and corruption claims brought by a sovereign wealth fund, including a multi-day hearing for a successful jurisdiction challenge.

     

     

  • Blackstar Advisors v Cheyne Capital [2019] EWCA Civ 2210, successfully defending the fund against contractual claim for unpaid fees.

  • CMOC v Persons Unknown [2018], successful acting on a global asset recovery exercise for international commodities business subject to a sophisticated Business Email Compromise fraud. Obtained first-known reported worldwide freezing injunction against ‘Persons Unknown’.

  • Acting for a property company in claims of over £17m against RBS in which the company claims that RBS unilaterally altered the term of a £10.5m loan agreement without the company’s authority or permission. The case involved complex issues of restitution and subrogation.

  • Vald. Nielsen Holding A/S & Anor v Baldorino & Ors, [2017] EWHC 1033 (Comm): acting for the defendants in a £42 million Commercial Court claim including allegations of deceit, conspiracy to defraud and breach of fiduciary duty. Acting successfully on a number of interim applications including a security for costs application.

  • Acting for a company defending Part 8 proceedings for payment of the balance of an advisory fee that it was claimed was payable under the terms of an investment agreement. The overall net returns of the underlying transaction were £185.8 million for the claimant entity. The case involved complex issues of contractual interpretation.

  • Sir David Garrard v Alex Salter. Acting for the defendant in a Part 8 shareholder dispute; including successfully defending an application to expedite the proceedings.

  • Acting for the claimant in Wyatt v The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc 2015 EWHC 2150 (QB) in relation to defending an application to amend existing pleadings, to amend a cost budget, to strike out parts of pleadings and to allow supplemental witness evidence into the proceedings.

  • Advising Russian and Ukrainian clients on the English law aspects of a US$45 million LCIA arbitration concerning a dispute arising out of a joint venture in the agricultural sector.

  • Advising a large oil and gas company in a multi-million dollar UNCITRAL arbitration defending a claim against brought by a government.

  • Experience of dealing with statutory demands and insolvency related hearings from both the creditor and debtor side; including successfully defending the directors of a large group of companies in administration in respect of claims made under personal guarantees.