Amita Chohan

Amita is a dedicated litigator and commercial chancery barrister, focusing on dispute resolution, domestic/cross-border insolvency, and general commercial work. She regularly represents a diverse range of clients (onshore and offshore), including insolvency professionals, companies, trustees, directors, asset-based lenders, and banks. Amita provides comprehensive legal support on issues such as insolvency, cross-border issues, company law, fraud title disputes, misrepresentation, and professional negligence. Her experience extends to advising on insolvency procedures, antecedent transactions, and directors’ disqualifications.

Clients turn to Amita for her strategic and diligent approach to complex insolvency matters, and banking and finance litigation. She has experience in navigating both domestic and cross-border asset tracing, disputes arising from insolvent mutual and private equity funds, asset, and security recovery in foreign jurisdictions (including BVI, Cayman, and the U.S.), and international fraud and financial crime cases.

Amita’s practical experience is bolstered by her previous offshore practice in Jersey (Channel Islands) and before that at a large global law firm headquartered in the U.S. Additionally, she has experience in complex and high-value commercial, insolvency, and trust litigation, both onshore and offshore.

Amita holds leadership and committee positions within key international organizations in the global insolvency community including Co-Chair of IWIRC Europe and previously as Technical Co-Chair on the Organising Committee at INSOL International. Amita is also a member of the Organising Committee for IWIRC Europe’s 2026 Annual Congress, a member of IWIRC International’s Board for 2026 and a member of IWIRC International’s New Networks Committee. Through these positions, she helps shape strategic initiatives, contributes to thought leadership, and promotes cross-border collaboration across the insolvency and restructuring field. She is also a regular speaker at leading industry conferences, including INSOL, where she shares insights on insolvency and litigation trends.

• Acting for the joint liquidators of JJW Limited (registered in Guernsey, in liquidation) in an appeal arising out of the long-running BVI liquidation of MBI International & Partners. The Court of Appeal set aside the High Court’s order that equitable compensation of c.€67m be paid to the BVI liquidators by JJW Limited (and another appellant on a joint and several basis) and confirmed that a director remains subject to continuing fiduciary duties post liquidation (when transferring assets owned by that company) on the basis that the director is an “intermeddler.” The Court of Appeal’s decision bears wider significance as it was based on English authorities, though it concerned a BVI company (Mitchell v. Al Jaber [2024] EWCA Civ 423, [2024] BCC 934).
• Acting for the first and second defendants in Business and Property Courts proceedings arising out of a £5.75m unsecured trust investment into a UK student accommodation project. The claim involves allegations of deceit, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of trust and unlawful means conspiracy, and raises issues concerning trust administration, alleged conflicts of interest and the classification of a loan as “low risk”, in a multi-jurisdictional context (BL-2025-000163: APIC Trustees Limited & Anor v. Ranger & Ors).
• Acting for the defendants in English High Court litigation arising out of a dispute concerning phantom equity entitlements under a long-term incentive plan following a corporate transaction. The proceedings involve contested issues as to the construction of the plan and award documentation, the circumstances in which awards may be cancelled or forfeited, the determination of fair market value on a change of control, and the extent to which fiduciary duties constrain the exercise of discretion under incentive arrangements. (LM-2025-000039: Metzger v Blankfactor Group Holdings Limited and another).
• Acting for two partners in a renewable energy investment company in English court proceedings against two former partners for breaches of partnership and fiduciary duties.

• International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, Rising Star (2025)
• International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, Finalist, Rising Star (2024)
• The Women and Diversity in Law, Finalist, Rising Star (2024)