Megan Betts is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s London office. She joined the firm in 2020, having previously trained at a Magic Circle law firm before practising in the International Dispute Resolution team at an international law firm. Her practice spans complex commercial litigation, arbitration and competition litigation, with an emphasis on contractual and shareholder disputes.
Megan acts mostly for corporations in arbitrations and litigation under a range of applicable laws and across major arbitral institutions (including SIAC, ICC, LCIA and HKIAC). Her experience includes high value arbitrations in the energy sector, acting both claimant and defence side in shareholder disputes, and more recently taking a lead role in the team pursuing a £2.2bn collective action against Meta before the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
- University of Nottingham
(LL.M., Public International Law, with merit, 2016) - University of Law Bloomsbury, London
(L.P.C., with Distinction, 2015) - St Peter’s College, University of Oxford
(Jurisprudence, 2014)
- Solicitor, England & Wales
- Recognized as a Recommended Individual in Competition Litigation by Legal 500 UK, 2024.
- The Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Third Party Funding and Security for Costs in International Arbitration, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, July 2020
- Securing Witness Evidence: English Courts to the Rescue of Foreign Arbitrations, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, May 2020
- New Balance and Fellaini… have you signed on the dotted line?, Allen & Overy Compact Contract Blog, May 2018
- Devil’s in the detail: is your notice of breach good enough?, Allen & Overy Compact Contract Blog, Jan 2018
- Implied terms and umbrella agreements don’t shelter clients from CFAs, Allen & Overy Compact Contract Blog, August 2017
- Judicial Review of financial ombudsman decisions – Wednesbury unreasonableness, Allen & Overy Litigation Review, April 2017