Personal bio
Raini Zambelli is a corporate and commercial law barrister. She has acted for large financial institutions, governments, and government agencies, corporate entities of all size, directors, joint ventures and partnerships. Raini specialises in complex insolvency, financial and cross-border disputes and has over 20 years' arbitration and litigation experience in Australia and across multiple European jurisdictions, the Middle East, Asia, Russia and the Americas. Before coming to the Bar, Raini practised as a solicitor in Melbourne and in London. She holds a Masters of Law majoring in contentious insolvency and international arbitration and is also admitted to the English Bar as a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Raini is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrtors (FCiArb) and is qualified as a mediator in Australia and in the United Kingdom (NMAS and ADR Group). In addition to her arbitration and litigation practice, Raini also has extensive experience in the financial services sector, having spent two years seconded as in-house counsel to Royal Sun Alliance and to the Royal Bank of Scotland in London.