Karen has a wide variety of experience in the international trade and commodities sector, covering trading, the sale of goods, transportation, financing and warehousing of many physical commodities. Karen acts on all types of disputes, including some of the Energy and Natural Resources Group's largest international arbitrations and English Court litigation. Karen also acts on transactional matters involving drafting and advising on contracts relating to a broad spectrum of commodities from metals to grain, to oils. 

Karen has completed in-house secondments in the legal departments at one of the world's largest international commodities trading houses and at an oil major. While on secondment, Karen dealt with both contentious and non-contentious issues. She advised on a wide variety of issues relating to oil and oil products, including under standard terms such as BP 2007 and BP 2015 GTCs. She also advised on issues related to nonferrous metals, iron ore, and coal. Karen dealt with live, time sensitive disputes and advised on international warehousing agreements, as well as commercial agreements, including parent company guarantees, agency agreements and payment mechanisms, such as standby and documentary letters of credit. Karen has also acted on construction disputes and international construction arbitrations.

Karen is recognised as a Rising Star by the London Super Lawyers List for Energy and Natural Resources and is ‘recommended’ for commodities disputes by Legal 500 UK for the past two years.