Julian Stait > Milbank > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Milbank is noted for its expertise in technology-related disputes, applying its knowledge of the IT industry. Practice leader Julian Stait specialises in the resolution of high-stakes business and regulatory disputes, in addition to representing clients in investigations, with extensive experience of litigation before the English Courts. Tom Canning,  who is well-versed in the field of IT litigation and arbitration, is another key contact in the group.

‘Massively experienced in international arbitration‘, Milbank‘s London group is routinely mandated by corporations, financial institutions, and state and federal governments for highly complex arbitration proceedings. International arbitration leader Tom Canning acts in arbitrations under all the major arbitral rules, while Julian Stait specialises in the resolution of large business disputes. Within the firm’s associate pool, Peter Edworthy focuses on cases involving energy, construction, infrastructure and telecoms projects-related disputes, and Vasiliki Katsarou is ‘an excellent, hardworking and talented lawyer‘.

Milbank draws on its established strength in the contentious space to represent key players from the global financial services community in their interactions with the regulators. The firm’s transatlantic presence ensures that it is particularly well positioned to handle mandates with ramifications in both the UK and US. Julian Stait heads up the litigation and arbitration practice, with William Charles regularly leading on regulatory investigations work.

Milbank has a ‘growing team of commercial litigators, with a particular emphasis on fraud claims’, and are seen as ‘great at large team litigation’. The team’s strengths are exemplified by its work for Visa on significant interchange litigation over the last decade. Julian Stait does a ‘huge proportion of the work for Visa’ and leads the team that consists of ‘incisive, results-oriented’ Mona Vaswani and ‘future star’ Conrad Marinkovic.

Milbank houses an ‘absolutely wonderful’ team, which often appears in matters before the Commercial Court and the Court of Appeal. Practice head Julian Stait is ‘extremely knowledgeable‘ of cross-border investigations and CPO applications. Special counsel Emma Hogwood frequently acts for clients in claims concerning fraud and abuse of dominance; and special counsel Cormac Alexander is particularly adept at handling regulatory investigations and arbitrations.

Milbank boasts a team that ‘leverages its unique abilities and insights’ to lead on high-profile and complex competition law disputes and investigations, with particular expertise in loan and bond-related transactional disputes. Julian Stait leads the team, notably representing Visa and Rabobank in relation to interchange litigation and Libor manipulation matters. ‘Superb banking specialist’ Mona Vaswani is integral to the team, and is a ‘formidable and determined opponent’. Also highly active in the practice are Tom Canning, who provides ‘excellent, practical advice’ for clients, and Peter Edworthy.