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Withers LLP Offices
20 Old Bailey
LONDON
EC4M 7AN
England
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Joshua Swift
Work Department
Litigation and arbitration
Position
Joshua is experienced in dealing with complex and high-value international and domestic disputes. His practice is wide-ranging, which gives him a good perspective from which to provide commercial advice to his clients. He has substantial experience in professional negligence matters, acting for the Bar Mutual and its insureds in relation to negligence claims against barristers, including top QCs. He also acts regularly for Claimants in professional negligence claims primarily against solicitors in a wide-variety of scenarios including negligent trust drafting, lost litigation claims, negligent property advice and negligent commercial advice/contract drafting.
He also has extensive experience in banking and financial litigation claims. He has acted against all the major high-street banks on derivative misselling claims, including complex FX instruments. He also advises some of Withers’ institutional clients in pursuing and defending similar claims.
His experience also includes tax litigation, having litigated against HMRC in the First and Upper Tier Tax Tribunals and the Court of Appeal.
Career
Senior Associate
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Professional negligence
Withers LLP has a strong record of delivering both claimants and defendants ‘consistently high quality, commercially savvy advice.’ The firm is particularly active in professional negligence cases against insured parties, including legal, financial, and real estate professionals. Eleni Polycarpou has experience in advising complex, high profile, sensitive matters for both claimants and defendants, and jointly leads the team alongside Caroline Thompson, who specialises in actions against legal professionals, particularly concerning tax and finance. Senior associate Joshua Swift is experienced in both domestic and international matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Court of protection
- Private client > Family
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Employment > Senior executives
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Private client > Family: mediation
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Real estate > Residential property
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Public sector > Education: schools
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Immigration
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)