Christina Lewes
Christina Lewes advises clients on complex commercial litigation and international arbitration across a range of industries, including financial services, aviation, and life sciences. Christina is part of the firm’s global Insurance Recovery Group, advising clients on international and fast-moving insurance recovery matters, particularly in the aviation sector. Christina is involved with a number of market-leading claims under Section 90A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, advising institutional shareholders in UK-listed companies in complex securities litigation.
Christina has represented clients in commercial litigation arising out of some of the most high-profile issues in recent years, including acting for aviation lessor policyholders in relation to multibillion-dollar claims amid the Ukraine conflict.
- Won a major claim for Merx Aviation against insurers, valued at $184 million, regarding aircraft trapped in Russia as a result of the conflict in Ukraine
- Representing various clients in litigation in the Commercial Court in London against the various international reinsurers who participated in the reinsurance of interests in aircraft let to the Russian airlines, with the matters we are currently representing valued to be in excess of $4 billion total
- BPP Law School, 2020, LPC, with Distinction
- BPP Law School, 2019, GDL, with Distinction
- University of Exeter, England, 2017, B.A. Hons, First Class Honours
- England & Wales
