Call: 2025
Elena Casale practises across the full span of commercial disputes, including technology, construction, competition, civil fraud, shipping, sanctions, financial services, cryptocurrency, insurance, and reinsurance.
Before coming to the Bar, Elena was a judicial assistant to Lord Justice Dingemans in the Court of Appeal. Elena worked on and observed a number of significant appeals, spanning public, commercial, competition, and shipping law cases, including BSV Claims v Bittylicious, a collective proceedings appeal against major crypto exchanges said to be worth up to £9 billion. While working at the Court of Appeal, Elena was awarded a Ministry of Justice Reward and Recognition Award for exceptional personal achievement in assisting the Court of Appeal judges. Prior to pupillage, Elena also worked on a variety of commercial matters as a paralegal at a disputes-only law firm.
Elena has a longstanding specialism in the law relating to emerging technologies, having worked for a Westminster civil society organisation on data protection and civil liberties issues, and taught on a Master’s course on Internet Technologies and Regulation at the University of Oxford. Elena has published on the subject of emerging technologies, including as part of a research group for Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
Elena holds a first-class honours degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford; a distinction in the law conversion course at BPP Law School; and a Bar Course diploma from the Inns of Court College of Advocacy, for which she was awarded the Lord Mansfield scholarship (the top scholarship offered by Lincoln’s Inn for the bar course).
Elena has experience in:
Elena has experience across a range of complex multi-jurisdictional and high value commercial claims in the Commercial Court, DIFC Court, and the Technology and Construction Court:
Elena has experience of arbitration under the ICC Rules. She also has (unled) experience seeking a stay in favour of arbitration, and has experience seeking anti-suit and anti-anti-suit injunctions in aid of arbitral proceedings:
Elena has experience of construction disputes in both litigation and arbitration, including High Court proceedings concerning fire-safety and building defects and a large-scale ICC arbitration arising out of an energy infrastructure project.
Elena has experience in disputes arising out of technology, including claims concerning the performance of AI systems, data protection, payments technology, privacy and IP disputes involving AI-generated content. Elena has a particular interest in disputes arising out of technology and has explored the interaction between law and emerging technologies through teaching, policy work, and publications, including at the Oxford Internet Institute and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center.
Elena has experience in competition law and has assisted on a number of high-value collective claims:
Elena has experience of disputes arising out of sanctions regimes, both in relation to challenges to designation and in commercial proceedings shaped by the effect of sanctions on cross-border enforcement:
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