Wallace LLP

Commercial Litigation & Banking and Financial Services Litigation

Partner,  Head of Commercial Litigation and Banking Litigation

Areas of Practice - High Value Commercial Litigation & Arbitration, Domestic & Multi-Jurisdictional Shareholder, Joint Venture and Company/Corporate disputes, Banking & Financial Services Litigation, including cases involving mis-selling, misconduct, misrepresentation, deceit, fraud, breach of duty, contractual interpretation and breach of transactional documentation, as well as various contentious restructurings and substantial group actions for consumers and retail investors against major institutions.

Significant expertise and an impressive track record in all forms of general commercial litigation and banking and financial services dispute resolution gained at leading City and US firms. Experience in advising clients on a range of regulatory investigations conducted by authorities in the UK and US, including the Financial Conduct Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission, and representing clients on anti-trust/competition matters in the Competition Appeal Tribunal, High Court and the Court of Appeal. Clients include private equity investors, hedge funds, corporate finance boutiques, family offices, HNWIs as well as listed and privately owned companies.

Positions Wallace, January 2014 to present | Partner Quinn Emanuel, May 2011 – December 2013 | Senior Associate Mayer Brown, October 2007 – April 2011 | Senior Associate Bird & Bird, September 2004 – September 2007 | Solicitor Herbert Smith, 2002 – 2004 | Trainee Solicitor

Law Society Solicitor Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience (Civil & Criminal)

Cambridge University, 1997 – 2000 MA (Cantab), History