Stewarts Law LLP

Commercial Litigation

Senior Associate

Joe specialises in high-value commercial litigation, often involving banking and other financial services or complex contractual or tortious disputes. He advises both companies and individuals, including in group litigation, and often in matters involving cross-border issues.

Joe is experienced in complex and high-value commercial litigation and advising on contractual and other disputes, often involving complex financial products, issues of company law and international elements.

His clients have included large corporates, institutional asset managers, high net worth individuals and sovereign wealth funds.

Joe’s cases often have international elements, including matters involving the US, UAE, Channel Islands and multiple European jurisdictions. He regularly deals with the various issues that can arise in cross-border disputes, including instances where the law or rules of multiple jurisdictions may apply and it is necessary to work closely with lawyers in other jurisdictions.

Experience

• Acting for sovereign wealth funds, institutional asset managers and other claimants in s90 FSMA claims against Tesco and a large multinational mining company
• Acting for a state and its national bank in claims relating to a global custody agreement with an international bank
• Acting for 313 institutional investors in the first group securities litigation of its kind in England in a claim against RBS in relation to its 2008 rights issue prospectus
• Acting in a complex, cross border fraud dispute
• Acting in various property development and financing claims, including for a development in excess of £100m

Joe joined Stewarts in 2009, before qualifying in 2012 and being promoted to associate in 2016. Joe has a first-class degree in Law and a master’s degree.

Member of the London Solicitor Litigation Association (LSLA).

Outside of work, Joe enjoys football, exercise and spending time with his young children.