Anca Bunda

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

Romanian (native speaker)

Spanish (intermediate)