Laura is a barrister at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer with extensive experience of managing complex multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes focusing on financial services matters. 

Laura teaches Contract Law at the University of Oxford alongside professional practice. She has received Associate Membership of the University of Oxford Faculty of Law, Affiliate Membership of the Oxford University Cybersecurity Centre and was formerly a Visiting Professor at King’s College London.

She was recognised by the International Chamber of Commerce UK (ICC) as a rising star within the finance sector and is a member of the ICC UK Banking Committee and former Chair of the ICC Young Finance Forum. Ms Feldman was also appointed by the Panel of Recognised International Market Experts in Finance (P.R.I.M.E Finance) as a Special Rapporteur and member of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s (ISDA) Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Committee, the Financial Markets Law Committee Banking Scoping Group, the Commercial Court, Financial List and London Circuit User Committees and the Law Society Civil Justice Committee.

She has published widely in established legal texts, including the including the Butterworth Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, the Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation and the Law Quarterly Review. Laura is also an editor of the commentary to the Civil Procedural Rules (i.e. the White Book), contributor to Chitty on Contracts and Bullen, Leake and Jacob’s Precedents for Pleadings (Hong Kong editions), and member of the Editorial Board of Butterworth’s Journal of International Banking and Finance Law.

Ms Feldman received a BA (Honours) in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and was presented with several awards and prizes during my academic studies. She received the prestigious Middle Temple Astbury Scholarship to complete the Bar Vocational Course and subsequently the Fox Scholarship to study for a LLM specialising in Commercial Law at the University of Toronto, in turn receiving a distinction and Fellowship from the University.