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Peter Stewart
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- Work +44 20 7861 4000
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Work Department
Dispute resolution.
Position
Peter has been a partner since 1985. He is head of dispute resolution, and heads FFW’s market-leading travel practice. He also heads the firm’s corporate risk management group. He has a broad practice. Recent work includes successfully acting for a trade financing company involved in a significant dispute with Middle Eastern financiers. He is acting for various companies involved in high-profile health and safety issues and high-profile regulatory regulatory issues, as well as for Middle-Eastern clients subject to worldwide freezing and search and seizure orders where the claimant demanded security of US$330m. He has also negotiated a successful settlement for a US supplier to a major European aircraft manufacturer. He has continued to represent travel companies in a wide range of matters, including health and safety, and regulatory, issues.
Career
Articled Field Fisher Waterhouse; qualified 1982; partner 1985; regularly lectures at travel and other industry conferences; author ‘A Practical Guide to Package Holiday Law and Contracts’ (3rd edition); contributor to podcasts and Legal Network Television on health and safety, and corporate manslaughter.
Member
IFTTA; fellow ITT.
Education
Campbell College, Belfast; Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Leisure
Golf, tennis, music.
Practice Areas
Arbitration, ADR, mediation; Health and safety; Litigation - commercial
