Ilka is an associate in the London Office of Milbank LLP and is a member of the firm’s Litigation & Arbitration Group.
Contact
London
Primary Focus & Experience
Ilka has experience of complex and high value regulatory, competition and commercial disputes in the English Courts, and has acted for clients from a broad range of industries. She has also advised clients in relation to expert determinations, as well as mediations and arbitrations under both LCIA and ICC rules.
Recent experience includes:
- Acting for Visa in multiple sets of proceedings in the High Court in relation to alleged infringements of competition law relating to the setting and implementation of multilateral interchange fees associated with the use of debit and credit cards. The trial of these matters was listed by the Lawyer as one of the Top 20 Trials of 2016.
- Acting for Rabobank in relation to regulatory investigations into the setting of LIBOR and EURIBOR benchmarks and settlements reached in 2013 with the UK Financial Conduct Authority, US Department of Justice and US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Dutch Central Bank, the Dutch Public Prosecutor, and the Japan Financial Services Agency.
- Advising a group of US funds on issues relating to the Lehman Brothers Waterfall Applications in the English Courts.
- Advising the co-ordinating committee of junior lenders in relation to the restructuring of the General Healthcare Group, a complex securitised private healthcare business in the UK with over £2bn of debt.
Additional Details
Education
- University of Oxford, M.A.
- BPP University Law School, L.P.C.
Admissions
- England and Wales