The Legal 500

Position

Practising across a broad range of commercial law, including: competition and EU; insurance and reinsurance; arbitration; energy; media and telecoms; financial services; civil fraud; and commercial judicial review. Significant cases include: Berezovsky v Abramovich (Commercial Court, ongoing) ; Competition Commission v BAA Ltd & Ryanair [2010] EWCA Civ 1097; Case T-321/05 AstraZeneca v Commission; Butters v BBC Worldwide Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 1160; R (Cityhook Ltd) v OFT [2009] EWHC (Admin); Yugraneft v Roman Abramovich [2008] EWHC 2613 (Comm); Case C-569/07 HSBC Holdings v HMRC; Attheraces v The British Horseracing Board Ltd [2007] EWCA (Civ) 38; Heath Lambert Ltd v Sociedad de Corretaje de Seguros [2005] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 597 (CA); Days Medical Aids Ltd v Pihsiang Machinery Manufacturing Co Ltd [2004] 1 All ER (Comm) 991; Case C-359/01 P British Sugar Plc v European Commission ; Getmapping v Ordnance Survey [2002] EWHC 1089 (Pat); Walkinshaw v Diniz [2002] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 165 (CA) Sphere Drake v Orion Insurance [2001] Lloyd’s Rep 1 (CA); The Indian Endurance (No 2) [1997] 4 All ER 380 (HL).

Career

Called 1995; pupil at One Essex Court (Chambers of Lord Grabiner QC) 1995-96; tenant at One Essex Court 1996-2005; tenant at Brick Court Chambers (Chambers of Jonathan Sumption QC and Jonathan Hirst QC) 2005-08. Admitted to the bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI); appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown (B panel).

Languages

French.

Member

Commercial Bar Association; Bar European Group.

Education

University College School; New College, Oxford (1991 BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics, First Class); Graduate School, Harvard University (1992 Frank Knox Scholar); City University, London (1993 CPE Dip Law); college of Europe, Bruges (1994 LLM).

Leisure

Tennis, skiing, chess.

Practice Areas

EU and competition; Litigation - commercial; Litigation - insurance/reinsurance