Maria is an experienced solicitor, with a background in commercial disputes, litigation and insolvency.
Maria’s expertise includes advising financial institutions such as banks and asset-based lenders on debtor and guarantor actions, advising on contractual disputes, conducting large-scale investigations for financial institutions in relation to sanctions, AML and compliance regulations including those with an international aspect, applications for freezing injunctions and Norwich Pharmacal Orders and bankruptcy and winding up proceedings. Maria also has extensive experience in all types of enforcement action including possession claims, charging orders, third party debt orders, orders to attend court for questioning and enforcement of foreign judgments and Arbitration Awards.
Maria’s experience includes:
- Acting for a client bringing a claim against its former accountant in a multimillion-pound fraud, obtaining judgment and committal for contempt.
- Successfully enforcing a multimillion-pound High Court judgment, obtaining orders for possession and sale in respect of a defendant’s substantial property portfolio.
- Obtaining charging orders over a large portfolio of properties of the Defendant in a £6.5 million mortgage fraud claim.
- Successfully obtaining £550,000 summary judgment in a claim involving the wrongful dissipation of Estate monies by an Administrator of the Estate and the subsequent enforcement of the judgment.
- Acting for an asset-based lender on a large multimillion-pound debt collection, successfully recovering all of the lenders book debt.
- Acting for a client in a claim involving procurement fraud. The claim was successfully settled following applications for a Norwich Pharmacal Order and Freezing Injunction.
Maria qualified as a solicitor in 2013 in England and Wales and joined Brecher in 2025 as a Senior Associate in Banking Litigation.
