Elizabeth Weeks
Partner, Dispute Resolution
Elizabeth Weeks is a Partner in our Dispute Resolution team, and ranked as a Next Generation Partner in Legal 500 2025.
Elizabeth has extensive experience acting on a wide range of complex, high-value, multi-jurisdictional commercial dispute resolution matters, including litigation, arbitration, and adjudication. She acts in proceedings brought in various divisions of the High Court together with appellate proceedings in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Elizabeth acts and advises in proceedings governed by various arbitral institutional rules including the ICC, LCIA, LMAA and CIArb.
Elizabeth acts on matters relating to contractual disputes, commercial fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, asset recovery, jurisdiction challenges, enforcement of foreign Judgments, company, shareholder, partnership and family business disputes and professional negligence disputes. Her work often involves urgent Court applications and the application of foreign law.
Elizabeth’s private wealth experience has also seen her acting for clients in the arts and luxury assets sector.
Elizabeth acts for a variety of private and public sector clients on a full range of contentious and non-contentious construction matters from advice on procurement methods and the negotiation of construction contracts through to dispute avoidance and resolution.
Elizabeth is a member of the LSLA, the Society of Construction Law and The Association of Women in the Arts.
Recent experience:
- Acting for the Claimants in an ICC arbitration concerning breaches of contract and other equitable claims.
- Acting for approximately 27,000 individual Claimants and 479 Community Claimants affected by a significant oil spill in the Niger Delta in two sets of concurrently case managed TCC proceedings against an oil major. Proceedings have yielded 12 Judgments at first instance, 3 Court of Appeal Judgments and a Supreme Court Judgment.
- Acting for a Claimant against Blom Bank S.A.L in respect of the first claim to establish jurisdiction against a Lebanese bank before the English Courts in conjunction with other claims concerning USD deposited with the Defendant bank and not repaid to the Claimant. Bilal Khalifeh -v- Blom Bank S.A.L [2020] EWHC 2427 (QB), [2021] EWHC 1502 (QB), [2021] EWHC 3399 (QB).
- Acting for a Claimant in respect of the payment of success fees arising out a private equity transaction. Ardent Advisors Ltd -v- UK Web Media Ltd & Ors [2021] EWHC 63 (Comm).
- Acting for the Claimant in Part 8 proceedings regarding the remittance of funds from China in connection with a dispute concerning a vehicle engine production manufacturing plant, also in China.
- Acting for a Claimant in urgent injunctive proceedings concerning trademark infringements.
- Acting for a Claimant providing capital services for early stage and growth biotech companies in a CIArb administered arbitration.
- Acting for the Defendant in High Court proceedings concerning the termination of a joint venture partnership structured as a limited partnership, the subject of which was a multi-million-pound development site in the City of London. CitizenM LND St Paul’s Properties B.V. –v- Chil Limited and Ors [2016] EWCA Civ 771.*
- Acting for 19 Defendants in a high value LCIA arbitration concerning allegations of unfair prejudice and breaches of fiduciary duty in relation to the management of company assets in this jurisdiction, France, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia.*
- Acting for the liquidator of a Manx indirect subsidiary of the collapsed Icelandic bank, Kaupthing hf in multi- jurisdictional High Court proceedings concerning loans and transactions entered into in the lead up to the 2007/8 financial crisis. Claims totalling approximately £500 million to the company’s estate concerned, amongst others, the acquisition of Somerfield Plc (and its subsequent disposal) and Kaupthing’s lending relationship with the Tchenguiz brothers and their corporate structures. Isis Investments Ltd –v- Oscatello Investments Ltd & Ors [2013] EWHC 7 (Ch) Isis Investments Ltd –v- Oscatello Investments & Ors [2012] EWHC 745 (Ch).*
*Please note this experience relates to work done by Elizabeth before she joined Rosenblatt.
What our clients think about us:
“Elizabeth Weeks’ recent elevation to partnership could not be more deserved. Her legal skills, work ethic and integrity really do set her apart.” – Legal 500, 2025
“A great technical lawyer with strong commercial savvy. Partners and barristers trust her to make decisions on her own, because she always gets them right.” – Legal 500, 2024
