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Victoria Callicott
Partner
Victoria Callicott has extensive experience leading on high-value domestic and cross-border contractual, corporate and commercial disputes across multiple sectors. These disputes include breach of contract claims, supply chain disputes, product defect claims, outsourcing disputes, warranty claims, business protection cases and fraud claims.
Victoria also helps clients resolve disputes through alternative dispute resolution, such as mediation, and advises clients on risk management, with a view to avoiding disputes escalating.
She has particular experience in the industrials sector with a focus on manufacturing and engineering, aerospace and automotive disputes. She also has significant experience in utilities and water sector disputes, leading two of the first disputes involving the Wholesale Retail Code through the courts and arbitration.
With a deep understanding of her sectors of focus, Victoria has successfully navigated her clients through challenging legal landscapes, providing pragmatic strategic advice and securing favorable outcomes in both the English courts and arbitration. Her experience managing complex, strategic and high-value cases demonstrate her capability in handling technically and commercially demanding matters.
- Advising on a multimillion-pound contractual dispute concerning the provision and maintenance of engines in the defense sector.
- Advising on several high-value, cross-jurisdictional supply chain disputes and product durability claims in the aerospace sector.
- Advising on a multimillion-pound repudiatory breach of contract claim for a scrap metal company.
- Advising on a cross-jurisdictional product defect/recall in the construction and marine sector.
- Advising on a high-value product defect claim in the energy sector.
- Acting on the first arbitration to take place under the Wholesale Retail Code.
- Acting for a statutory undertaker on a long-running multimillion-pound claim and counterclaim dispute in the Technology & Construction Court arising from a corporate disposal.
- Advising on various high-value warranty claims, completion account and earn-out disputes.
- Advising on breach of restrictive covenant disputes and business protection cases concerning misuse of confidential data.
- Acting for an engineering company in the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry.
- Managing and settling liabilities in various jurisdictions, as well as dealing with compliance concerns and ABC risks as a secondee at an FTSE 100 plc.
Education
- College of Law, Birmingham, L.P.C., 2008
- University of Warwick, LL.B., 2007
Admissions
- England and Wales, 2012
Memberships & Affiliations
- Member and former director (2015 and 2022), Steering Committee, Midlands Fraud Forum
- Recognised as a Rising Star in The Legal 500 as an associate
- Recognised as an Acritas Star lawyer by Acritas
- Selected as a finalist in the legal category for the Birmingham Young Professional of the Year award (2019)