One Essex Court

Tim’s broad commercial practice sees him instructed in many of the most complex, high-value disputes before the English courts and in international arbitration. Tim has particular experience in technology, banking and finance, and M&A litigation and arbitration. Current and recent matters include representing Dr Craig Wright in the high-profile “Satoshi Nakamoto” Bitcoin litigation; defending TSB in the landmark Whistletree mortgage claims; acting for Deutsche Bank in the long-running Lehman “Waterfall” proceedings; acting for Motorola Airwave in litigation concerning the UK’s emergency-communications network; and appearing for the sellers in Travelport v WEX, the precedent-setting MAE dispute arising from the aborted sale of an online travel-payments business during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Called 2015 (Inner Temple)

German and Russian

BA Jurisprudence, New College, Oxford — First Class (2006–2009) LPC (Distinction), College of Law (2009–2010)