Charlotte Evenden

Charlotte is a proactive, and highly motivated solutions-driven litigator with extensive private practice and in-house experience. Having built a broad and varied practice, Charlotte is highly skilled in negotiation, and the resolution of complex commercial and corporate disputes.

Recommended as a Key Lawyer for Commercial Litigation in Legal 500 (2024), clients enjoy working with Charlotte because she provides commercially focused strategic advice. She seeks pragmatic solutions for her clients at the earliest opportunity, mitigating their exposure to potential litigation and reputational harm.

Charlotte is identified by clients as being “very good technically and commercially”, and “detailed and practical in her advice”. She is also cited as an “exceptionally diligent and hard-working” lawyer who “inspire[s] confidence” and is “an absolute pleasure to work with”.

As well as effective resolution of contractual disputes, Charlotte has specialist expertise in procurement challenges, having acted on behalf of contracting authorities, aggrieved bidders, and interested parties. Charlotte also enjoys providing contentious advisory and contract negotiation support to Corporate & Commercial colleagues throughout the lifecycle of corporate transactions.

Testimonials

“Very good technically and commercially. I have appreciated her clear and concise advice and pragmatic approach and her ability to work as part of a team.”

(Senior Legal Counsel - in-house client)

“I was fortunate enough to work with Charlotte on a difficult matter. Not only was she professional, detailed and practical in her advice, approach and recommendation, Charlotte managed the engagement in a manner which inspired confidence and returned some humanity to an otherwise unpleasant issue. Thank you for all your help.”

(Chief Technology Officer of an innovative self-storage facility in London )

“I worked with Charlotte on a high value breach of warranty claim involving one of the UK’s major insurers. Charlotte was exceptionally diligent and hard working.”

(Barrister, 3 Hare Court )

“It was an absolute pleasure to work with Charlotte; I look forward to doing so again and I would not hesitate to recommend her to lay clients as a great commercial litigator and strategist.”

( Barrister, 3 Hare Court)

Charlotte joined the firm in March 2024 from UK top 20 international law firm, Pinsent Masons. An experienced commercial litigator, Charlotte has extensive private practice and in-house experience, and comes recommended as a Key Lawyer for Commercial Litigation in the 2024 Legal 500.

Charlotte acts for a mixture of businesses, corporations and high-net-worth-individuals on a broad variety of commercial and corporate disputes including:

shareholder and partnership fall-outs
breach of contract and breach of warranty claims
breach of director duties, and unfair prejudice petitions
professional negligence, and
defamation, conspiracy and breach of confidentiality.

Charlotte is committed to finding pragmatic solutions for clients. This includes by negotiating favourable exit terms for early termination of high-value contracts and providing commercially focused advice and crisis management support at pre-action stage.

Charlotte is also skilled in conducting litigation due diligence, facilitating company restorations and providing advisory support in connection with acquisitions, re-financings, or group re-organisations to her Corporate & Commercial colleagues. This proves invaluable to clients, helping them to identify and mitigate the risk of potential litigation and reputational harm from the outset.

Charlotte recently acted for a European tax authority on a landmark fraud claim concerning a £1.5bn tax fraud alleged against 80+ defendants worldwide, in which she led the delivery of complex foreign law expert evidence at preliminary issue (Skatteforvvaltningen v Solo Capital Partners LLP & Ors [2023] EWHC 590 (Comm)) and main trial stage.

Charlotte has considerable experience in advising on procurement challenges. She has acted for contracting authorities, brought challenges on behalf of aggrieved bidders following tender award, and represented Interested Parties (including, notably, the successful tenderer for the HS2 Old Oak Common Station construction contract).

Outside of work, you can expect to find Charlotte either racking up the miles on Peloton or planning her next globe-trotting adventure. She is an avid traveller, having visited 48 countries and counting, from the likes of Bosnia to Belize.