Mannat is a senior associate in the firm's dispute resolution team.
Mannat has experience advising financial institutions on a wide range of contentious matters. She has specific experience in relation to group actions and disputes involving fraud / other wrongdoing, and has also spent time on secondment to a global investment bank.
Mannat also has experience in technology, media and telecommunications disputes, having spent time as a secondee with the Sky disputes team and the firm's competition, regulation and trade practice in Brussels.
Background
Mannat is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and as an advocate in India. Mannat holds a Bachelor of Arts and Law with Honours from the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, from where she graduated as a gold-medallist.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- Stagecoach Group in procurement proceedings regarding the award of UK rail franchises worth over £1 billion
- an international bank in relation to the successful settlement of a €130 million claim involving allegations of bribery and transactions outside of capacity
- RSA Insurance in its defence and resolution of securities claims brought under section 90A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
- Seoul Semiconductor in UK proceedings relating to the validity and infringement of a patent relating to 'white light LEDs' owned by General Electric
- an international bank in defending a claim brought for allegedly failing to pay sums due under on-demand bonds on the basis of EU and UK sanctions imposed on certain Russian / Russia-connected entities
- a UK group company in defending claims of unlawful distribution and unjust enrichment regarding surrendered tax losses
- a global bank in defending a securities class action brought under section 90 and section 90A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
Sectors
Services
