Dorothy Cory-Wright is a highly experienced lawyer advising on complex commercial litigation, arbitration, alternative dispute resolution and contentious regulatory issues including monitorships. She works with her clients in regulatory and internal investigations, including advising on corporate self-governance programs. Her cases are frequently multi-jurisdictional, critical to her clients and often involve issues of market importance.
Ms. Cory-Wright's practice spans many sectors including financial services with clients across the panoply including banks, funds, private equity houses, insurers and reinsurers, also manufacturing, life sciences, energy and sport among others. She has particular experience in litigating disputes over new complex financial products and issues arising in restructuring and insolvencies. Having trained and practiced as a Barrister and now a Solicitor-Advocate, she regularly performs the advocacy in her matters. As well as her legal knowledge she employs her understanding of English High Court procedure and multiple arbitration society rules her commercial acumen and her focus on strategy to resolve her clients' problems successfully.
Ms. Cory-Wright has litigated and arbitrated in the United States and Bermuda. She writes and lectures both in the UK and overseas and takes arbitrator appointments. Who’s Who Legal describes her as a “brilliant lawyer” while Chambers UK states that she is “a skilled litigator, who provides clients with ‘very astute and intuitive advice’” and “…highly respected, Dorothy Cory-Wright is a former barrister with "great knowledge of the area."
Ms. Cory-Wright has been listed by The Legal 500 UK in its Hall of Fame for commercial litigation and insurance and reinsurance litigation (2022-2023), and as a Leading Individual for banking litigation, with clients stating that she is "tactically astute and very experienced" (2022). The Legal 500 UK 2023 lists her as a key lawyer for civil fraud and regulatory investigations and corporate crime. She has been consistently recognized as a Leading Individual for commercial litigation for the past decade, with clients stating that she "is very well connected, practical and commercial" (2021). She was also recommended for international arbitration, with clients describing her as "a big name and personality and very well respected."
In 2019, Ms. Cory-Wright was honored with an award for "Best in Litigation" at Euromoney's European Women in Business Law Awards. She was also recognized in Chambers UK 2017 and 2016 for litigation, with clients stating that she is "fantastic" and describe her as a "very detail-oriented, spirited and experienced lawyer."
Ms. Cory-Wright was part of the team awarded "Investigation Team of the Year" at the C5 Women in Compliance Awards 2020. She has been recommended for Insurance & Reinsurance by Who’s Who Legal 2024, and by Euromoney’s Insurance & Reinsurance and Women in Business Law Expert Guides 2019, lists of the world’s leading lawyers as chosen by their clients and peers. In addition, Ms. Cory-Wright has been included as a "Litigation Star" in the Benchmark Litigation United Kingdom and Europe guides (2019-2021) as well as the 2020-2024 editions of Best Lawyers for litigation and insurance. In 2017, for the third consecutive year, she was honoured as the "Best in Insurance & Reinsurance" at the Euromoney LMG Women in Business Law Awards.
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- University of London, LL.B., 1982
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- England and Wales, Solicitor-Advocate – Higher Courts – Civil Proceedings
- Solicitor, England and Wales
- Ireland
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- Member of ArbitralWomen – The International Network of Women in Dispute Resolution