Anca Bunda
Call: Call: 2019; 2020 (New York Bar)
Practice Overview
Anca has a broad commercial practice spanning most of 3VB’s core practice areas, including banking, financial services and regulation, insolvency, cryptoassets, international arbitration, and general commercial disputes. She is often instructed as junior counsel in high-value cases and complex international arbitrations but is equally comfortable appearing as sole counsel. Before coming to the Bar, Anca was the Judicial Assistant to Sir Geoffrey Vos, in the Court of Appeal, where she gained experience in a broad range of civil disputes. Anca also assisted Sir Geoffrey Vos with his work on the Cryptoassets Taskforce report.
Anca is also a member of the New York Bar.
Arbitration and Related Court Applications
- Acting for an international commodities trader in an LCIA Arbitration relating to funding and offtake arrangements for a mining company, and in a related s.68 challenge in the English Commercial Court (led by Peter de Verneuil Smith QC and Dominic Kennelly).
- UNCITRAL arbitration between two major drinks manufacturers arising out of the termination of a cost-sharing agreement, including claims for compensation under the Commercial Agents Regulations (as a pupil, supervised by Christopher Bond)
- An LCIA arbitration of trade finance insurance disputes arising from Singapore/India commodities trades (as a pupil, supervised by Peter Ratcliffe)
- An ICSID Arbitration between Nova Group Investments BV and Romania (as a pupil, led by Christopher Harris QC and Kate Holderness)
Banking and Finance
- A series of claims brought by a public limited company against various investment banks for misuse of confidential information and market price manipulation (as a pupil, supervised by Farhaz Khan QC)
- An injunction granted to a FTSE 100 company prohibiting payment under a guarantee structure involving banks in London and the Middle East (as a pupil, supervised by Farhaz Khan QC)
- A claim by a consortium of Indian banks seeking repayment of 70 mil USD against a borrower and guarantor (as a pupil, supervised by Cleon Catsambis)
Civil Fraud and Asset Tracing
- Boettcher v Xio & Ors (Commercial Court, ongoing): acting for former global head of value creation in claim against a fund and its partners for alleged misrepresentations as to the nature of the fund and its investor base (led by William Day)
- A dispute in the UK Supreme Court between the Crown Prosecution Service and a company regarding the relationship between illegality and attribution (Crown Prosecution Service v Acquila Advisory Ltd (Respondent) UKSC 2019/0105) (as a pupil, with Andrew Sutcliffe QC and Anne Jeavons)
Commercial Dispute Resolution
- MCCF v British Polythene Industries (Commercial court, ongoing): acting for a major plastics manufacturer defending a claim brought by an introducer in relation to a “success fee” for the sale of British Polythene Industries in 2016 (led by Christopher Bond)
- Strategic Technologies v Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of China: representing the Ministry of National Defence of Taiwan in a High Court hearing related to enforcement proceedings
- Acting as sole counsel for a defendant in a claim under the Partnership Act 1890
- Acting for a claimant in an application to serve proceedings out of jurisdiction and by alternative means as part of a high-value commercial dispute (led by William Day)
- A claim for repudiatory breach arising during the Covid-19 pandemic (as a pupil, supervised by Cleon Catsambis)
- Acted for an international payment provider in a contractual dispute regarding an alleged breach of the provider’s terms and conditions (as sole counsel)
Conflict of Laws/Private International Law
- Boettcher v Xio & Ors (Commercial Court, ongoing): successfully defeated a jurisdiction challenge in a cross-border fraud claim (led by William Day)
- An application to contest jurisdiction of the English Court, brought by a Swiss Company under Articles 27-30 of the Lugano Convention (as a pupil, supervised by Farhaz Khan QC)
Cryptoassets
- Morton and others v Nexo (Commercial court, ongoing): acting for a digital asset financing platform in a dispute against three former investors (led by David Quest KC)
- Acting for a crypto-ATM provider in an FCA RDC hearing (involving issues of AML/CTF compliance) (led by Farhaz Khan QC)
- Acting for a crypto-ATM provider in an RDC hearing (involving issues of AML/CTF compliance) (led by Farhaz Khan QC)
Financial Services
- Acting in a large-scale inquiry by a regulator into non-financial misconduct by firms and individuals (led by Farhaz Khan KC and Chloë Bell)
Insolvency
- Advising the liquidators of an LLP regarding potential claims against former directors (led by William Day)
- Anca has appeared in Companies Court in winding up petitions
- Acting for the lenders in a claim for the enforcement of guarantees against property managers of two London real-estate developments (Commercial Court, ongoing, led by William Day)
Insurance & Reinsurance
- Advising an insurer in relation to claims under various title insurance policies
- An LCIA arbitration of trade finance insurance disputes arising from Singapore/India commodities trades (as a pupil, supervised by Peter Ratcliffe)
Languages
Romanian (native speaker)
Spanish (intermediate)
