I am a commercial disputes lawyer specialising in complex litigation with cross-jurisdictional elements. I assist clients in a number of sectors, including manufacturing, engineering, construction, aviation, energy and professional services.
My practice includes contractual disputes (including breaches of a variety of contracts including: bespoke and standard-form construction contracts, terms and conditions of sales and purchases in a wide range of sectors, insurance and reinsurance policies, warranty claims under SPAs, and breach of employees' post-termination restrictive covenants), professional negligence, breach of directors' duties, shareholder disputes and unfair prejudice claims, competition litigation, and regulatory law issues including damages claims under Article 1 Protocol 1 of the HRA 1998.
My work often involves a significant international element and spans territories worldwide: with my recent experience involving cases with elements in the USA, France, Belgium, Ukraine, India and the UAE.
I help clients achieve cost-effective and swift resolutions and prioritise finding pragmatic and commercial solutions as early as possible. I have experience in many forms of ADR including mediation, adjudication and expert determination. I have also provided advice on injunctive, bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings as alternative means to achieving clients' objectives.
My recent representative experience includes:
- Acting for an aircraft leasing company in the Commercial Court. The case involves highly complex case management, and significant expert and factual evidence on international geopolitical and jurisdictional matters in a claim worth approximately $700m. These cases were recently named by The Lawyer as one of the top 20 cases for 2024, and I was recognised by The Lawyer as one of the Associates making their names on those cases.
- Assisting a large toy manufacturer in its defence against a claim for engaging in alleged anti-competitive practices and breaches of regulatory law in a claim worth approximately £100m.
- Managing a CBD products manufacturer's claim against the Home Office, in High Court proceedings for damages under Article 1 of Protocol 1 of the European Convention (interference with possessions), following a successful claim for judicial review.
- Assisting a household-name manufacturer's subsidiary defend against multiple adjudications in a construction dispute including issues of interpretation of contracts and delay and programming.
