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A broad practice covering the full range of commercial litigation and arbitration, with a focus on insolvency, civil fraud, company law, banking and financial services. Equally comfortable working as sole counsel or as part of a wider counsel team, Joseph is instructed in commercial disputes in the English courts and in arbitration and also offshore. Recent cases include:

•Giwa v JNFX [2025] EWCA Civ 961 & [2024] EWHC 735 (Ch) (foreign exchange; deceit) •Adie v Ingenuity [2024] EWHC 2902 (Ch) (share purchase; deferred consideration) •Power Projects v Star Assurance [2024] EWHC 2798 (Comm) (on-demand bonds) •Albert Court v Fetaimia [2024] EWHC 1307 (Ch) (abuse of process; bankruptcy) •Petropavlovsk Plc, Re [2023] EWHC 264 (Ch), [2022] EWHC 2097 (Ch) & [2022] EWHC 2074 (Ch) (sanctions; schemes of arrangement; administration) •Asher v Jaywing [2022] EWHC 893 (Ch) (earn-outs; NOV clauses) •Maud, Re [2020] EWHC 1469 (Ch), [2020] EWHC 974 (Ch), [2019] EWHC 398 (Ch), [2018] EWHC 1414 (Ch), [2016] EWHC 2175 (Ch) & (bankruptcy petitions; collateral purpose) •Deansgate v Workman [2019] EWHC 2 (Ch) (transactions at an undervalue; abuse of process) • Re Haus of Vanity [2017] EWHC 2615 (Ch) (just & equitable winding-up) •RPC v Khan [2016] BPIR 722 (bankruptcy; jurisdiction) •Butler v Butler [2016] EWHC 1793 (Ch) (personal property; co-ownership) •Global v Gray [2015] EWHC 2232 (Ch), [2015] EWHC 3275 (Ch) & [2012] EWHC 3703 (Ch) (fiduciary duty; account of profits)

Called 2010; DIFC registered advocate (first registered 2014); Attorney General’s B Panel (2025)

Combar; Chancery Bar Association; Insolvency Lawyers’ Association; Financial Services Lawyers’ Association; Commercial Fraud Lawyers’ Association

Oriel College, Oxford (MA); City University, London (GDL)