Joanna Bailey Announced as Finalist for the 2025 Inspirational Women in Law Awards

Giambrone and Partners is delighted to announce that Joanna Bailey, a Partner, has been nominated as a Finalist for Cilex Lawyer of the Year, 2025 by Inspirational Women in Law by Next 100 Years for the second year running.

Next 100 Years, an organisation that recognises women who are driving positive change and championing gender equality across the legal profession.  Baroness Hale is their Patron, the first woman to serve on the Law Commission.
 
The Inspirational Women in Law Awards celebrate women in law who inspire others through their leadership. Being named a finalist for the second year is a testament to Joanna’s outstanding contribution to eliminating financial fraud. Joanna’s work had a lasting impact on her clients.
The winners of the 2025 Inspirational Women in Law Awards will be announced at the awards ceremony in November 2025.
 
Joanna frequently leads the litigation against financial institutions involved in cryptocurrency trading disputes, as well as Forex investment issues and regulatory investigations and has some considerable success in retrieving our clients' funds lost in fraud.

She has developed a range of strategies both to find the assets of the individuals perpetrating the fraudulent schemes and restore the funds to our clients. As well as recognising culpability in the organisations facilitating (but not associated with the fraud), by failing to undertake adequate due diligence.

Joanna led the first case in Europe where proceedings were served on Persons Unknown connected with two digital wallets over the blockchain by non-fungible token or ‘NFT’ in a cryptocurrency fraud. Following this ground-breaking case Joanna was named as Lawyer of the Week in the Financial Times.

Joanna is highly experienced in high-value out-of-court settlement negotiations and has in-depth knowledge of the Civil Procedure Rules as well as English common law