One Essex Court

Barrister practising in all areas of commercial dispute resolution (litigation and arbitration) with particular expertise in energy and natural resources; banking and financial services; shareholder disputes; civil fraud; freezing orders and jurisdictional disputes; and professional negligence. Recent matters include: MAC/MAE disputes in M&A acquisitions arising from COVID-19 travel disruption (Travelport v WEX); fraud and conspiracy claims in relation to sports licensing (SDIR v Rangers) and more generally (Hungry Panda); upstream production sharing disputes and downstream gas pricing disputes (North Sea and continental Europe); place of damage/branch agency jurisdictional disputes in international banking disputes (Kwok v UBS); and multiple pre-emption/tag-along/drag-along shareholder disputes.

Called to the Bar in 1995; tenancy with One Essex Court 1996; Silk 2013.

Bar of the Supreme Court of the Eastern Caribbean (BVI).

Gonville & Caius College) Cambridge (1992 BA (Hons) Natural Sciences); City University London (1994 CPE Diploma in Law).

Running, cycle touring, surfing.