Harriet Vidot
Senior associate
Services
Commercial dispute resolution
Sectors
Financial services
Harriet is a senior associate in the commercial dispute resolution team in London. She acts for corporates, from start-ups, scale-ups and VC-backed enterprises to large multi-nationals, as well as members’ organisations and individuals based in the UK and overseas.
She advises on a wide variety of commercial and financial services disputes, most of which have a multi-jurisdictional or international element. Harriet regularly deals with banking and financial litigation, contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, intellectual property, freezing injunctions, jurisdictional issues and overseas enforcement. She also brings her expertise to the firm’s corporate, commercial, employment, tax and private wealth teams.
I am a strategic, creative problem-solver, focused on helping clients to navigate difficult situations within the framework of the law, while managing risk, always with the client’s end goal in mind. I am frequently sought out for my ability to think ‘outside the box’ and provide swift, clear, pragmatic and commercially focussed advice.
The Legal 500 names Harriet as a ‘leading associate’, and as a recommended lawyer. Clients have praised Harriet for her ‘can do attitude’ and her ‘uniquely brilliant writing style, enabling her to provide first class legal advice’. She has also been described as a ‘superb lawyer’. Harriet qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and spent four years at a nearby City firm, before joining Penningtons Manches Cooper in 2016.
Recent work highlights
Overseas insurers’ tax appeal
Shareholder unfair prejudice
Breach of restrictive covenants
Grant funding negotiations
External recognition
What people are saying
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