About
Christine is a senior associate in the Firm’s Dispute Resolution practice. She advises on a wide range of commercial litigation, with a focus on multi-party actions and mass claims.
Christine’s practice focuses on complex, high-value commercial litigation. Christine has particular experience in the defence and co-ordination of complex multi-party and/or multi-jurisdictional litigation, including competition claims and follow-on claims, shareholder claims, and data mass claims. She also has advised on regulatory investigations following data related incidents. In addition, she has successfully defended a number of financial institutions in claims brought against them in the Commercial Court.
Christine has a keen interest in fintech, cyber security and data privacy.
Prior to joining Freshfields, Christine practised at a leading commercial law firm in Dublin, where her experience included working on multi-jurisdictional litigation arising from the Madoff fraud. Christine has also spent time on secondment to an international bank.
- Representing an OEM in relation to multi-jurisdictional claims arising from the Trucks infringement.
- Advising a large retailer on its response to a cyber incident and representing it in a mass claim arising from the incident.
- Advising a global apparel manufacturer on its response to a cyber incident.
- Advising a digital asset provider in relation to a dispute with a contractual counterparty over the development and issuance of a new token.
- Advising a major insurer in a High Court claim under the Contribution Act following mis-selling of insurance products by its agent.
- Successfully defending a global financial institution in a Commercial Court claim relating to alleged breaches of the Quincecare duty.
- Achieving a successful strikeout of a claim brought against an international bank relating to enforcement action taken against a customer.
- Representing a major corporate in a shareholder litigation in the High Court arising out of a profit overstatement.
- Advising a FTSE 100 retailer in its defence of claims brought by institutional shareholders under s.90A FSMA.
Christine Simpson
100 Bishopsgate