Stewarts Law LLP

Commercial Litigation and Fraud 

Partner in the Competition Litigation, Fraud and Securities Litigation departments.

Marc specialises in high-value commercial and financial disputes, often involving complex financial products and foreign/offshore jurisdictions.

Marc acts for financial institutions, public and private companies, states and state-entities, and high net worth individuals in complex commercial and financial disputes. His key practice areas include securities litigation, company and shareholder disputes, professional negligence, fraud claims, asset tracing and related injunctions such as freezing orders.

Marc has been the lead partner in a number of ground-breaking cases, including:

• Successfully recovering £1 million worth of bitcoin for the claimant in Robertson v Persons Unknown, in which the High Court considered whether cryptocurrencies are legal property.
• Acting for US investors in claims for US$650 million concerning a failed Islamic bond (sukuk), in which the High Court found in favour of the claimants and held for the first time that an arranging bank owed a duty of care to the secondary bond market.
• Acting for European investors in the first UK claim against a rating agency and major bank seeking over £100 million in damages for alleged fraudulent and negligent rating and marketing of complex financial products.

Marc read law as an undergraduate and postgraduate at Oxford University and qualified as a solicitor at Ashurst in 1999. He joined Stewarts in December 2009 and has been a partner since May 2013.

Basic French.

International Bar Association London Solicitors Litigation Association Association International Jeunesse Avocat

University of Oxford (1991-95, BA, law; BCL, law); Inns of Court School of Law (1995-96).