Chrysanthi Bampali

  • Senior Associate
  • London
  • cbampali@hausfeld.com
  • +44 20 7123 4203
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrysanthi-bampali-53193139/
Chrysanthi Bampali

OVERVIEW

Chrysanthi’s practice focuses on commercial and financial services litigation.

Expertise

Since joining Hausfeld, Chrysa has played a pivotal role in multi-million-pound High Court actions involving complex financial services disputes, several of which have been featured in The Lawyer’s annual ‘Top 20 Cases’ litigation feature.

She regularly represents clients in disputes with well-known financial institutions and has advised on significant claims involving financial benchmark manipulation, banking fraud, and general commercial matters, often with cross-border elements. Notably, she has been a key member of the team working on FX Claim UK, a proposed collective action regarding FX spot trading cartels

Chrysanthi's international experience includes working at the Legal Service of the European Commission in Brussels, where she gained significant experience in European litigation before the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. She has also worked at a Greek law firm in Athens, focusing on civil and commercial law matters.

She is a triple-qualified lawyer, admitted to practice in England & Wales, New York (USA), and Athens (Greece). She speaks Greek and Italian.

EDUCATION

LLM, (Russell Baker Scholar), University of Chicago Law School
LLB, University of Athens Law School 
Erasmus Programme, University of Essex

BAR ADMISSIONS

Solicitor, England & Wales, 2021
Attorney at law, New York State Bar Association, 2014
Dikegóros (or Lawyer), Athens Bar Association, 2010

AFFILIATIONS

Member - American Bar Association (ABA)

NEWS

Legal 500 UK 2025 recognises 28 Hausfeld lawyers across 7 practice areas

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • Human Rights
  • United Kingdom
  • Oct 03 2024

GCR Awards 2024 nominate Hausfeld FX Claim UK

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Feb 15 2024

Green light for £2.7 billion FX Claim UK collective action against 6 banks on opt-out basis

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Jul 25 2023

Hausfeld announces six senior promotions globally

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • Human Rights
  • Technology & Data Breach
  • United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium
  • Jan 04 2023

EVENTS

PUBLICATIONS

PERSPECTIVES

Arbitration Act 2025 receives Royal Assent, strengthening UK arbitration

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Mar 07 2025

The Climate Cast - No combustion without extraction: the Supreme Court decision in Finch

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • Jul 23 2024

No combustion without extraction – a landmark decision on consideration of downstream emissions in Finch

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 21 2024

Time for consumer law reform in relation to online contracts

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Mar 26 2024

Landmark legal challenge may impact planning decisions for new fossil fuel projects

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 26 2023

Consumer win on crypto arbitration clause: dispute set for the English Courts?

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Oct 27 2022

COVID-19 - unforeseeable events may not constitute “force majeure”

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 10 2020

COVID-19 – temporary insolvency practice direction

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Apr 21 2020

Cryptocurrency – is it property? (Part IV)

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Feb 07 2020

Hausfeld’s 2019 review – commercial disputes

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Jan 07 2020

The Court Of Appeal offers clarity on test for contract rectification

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Aug 23 2019

WHAT OTHERS SAY

Legal 500 UK

Chrysanthi Bampali has been recognised as a key lawyer, ‘I worked with Chrysanthi Bampali at Hausfeld. She was brilliant. There were times when I needed to listen to their advice, which was given professionally, courteously and in a simple but effective way.’ - Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail, 2025

Experience

Commercial & Financial Disputes

Chrysa has worked on several multi-million pound commercial and financial services disputes in the High Court. At Hausfeld, Chrysanthi has been a pivotal member of the team working on FX Claim UK, a proposed collective action in respect of FX spot trading cartels. She was recently involved in a high profile commercial dispute, listed as one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2018, where it was alleged that one of the top high street banks, and one of the Big Four accounting firms, had conspired to force the administration and accelerated sale of the claimants’ business. The case settled shortly before trial, and was the first case where the issue of whether ATE insurance constitutes adequate security for costs was considered by the Court of Appeal.

Financial Services & Banking

Her experience includes:

  • claims in connection with LIBOR-rigging
  • mis-selling of interest rate hedging products 
  • legal actions brought against major financial institutions that had “artificially distressed” SMEs and had driven them into administration in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.  
  • Legal 500 UK, 2025

    I worked with Chrysanthi Bampali at Hausfeld. She was brilliant. There were times when I needed to listen to their advice, which was given professionally, courteously and in a simple but effective way.

What I think

Arbitration Act 2025 receives Royal Assent, strengthening UK arbitration

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Mar 07 2025

The Climate Cast - No combustion without extraction: the Supreme Court decision in Finch

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • Jul 23 2024

No combustion without extraction – a landmark decision on consideration of downstream emissions in Finch

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 21 2024

Time for consumer law reform in relation to online contracts

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Mar 26 2024

Landmark legal challenge may impact planning decisions for new fossil fuel projects

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 26 2023

Consumer win on crypto arbitration clause: dispute set for the English Courts?

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Oct 27 2022