Mr Toby Starr > Humphries Kerstetter LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Humphries Kerstetter LLP Offices
St Bartholomew House
92 Fleet Street
EC4Y 1DH
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Mr Toby Starr
Work Department
Commercial Litigation and arbitration
Position
Toby Starr is a partner and solicitor-advocate at HK with 30 years’ experience in difficult commercial disputes, noted in the Legal 500 as “knowledgeable, experienced and incisive”. Following a career focussed predominantly on contract-based disputes and damages issues, Toby’s commercial disputes practice now extends to the expanding procedural and substantive regimes making up England’s growing ‘class action’ jurisdiction, including work in the Competition Appeal Tribunal and High Court.
Career
Toby was a solicitor at Linklaters and Debevoise & Plimpton and founded Starr Legal in the City of London before joining HK in 2018.
Toby’s work includes financial markets and finance litigation, competition litigation and class actions and international arbitration, including particularly contract-based claims and defences in a range of sectors. He has extensive experience in cases involving complex damages issues and procedural issues under many systems of rules domestically and internationally, as well as in interim measures and enforcement. Toby has appeared in interim and final hearings in domestic and international arbitral and other tribunals and before the English High Court.
Languages
English and basic German and Japanese
Education
1993: The College of Law, Chester.
1992: B.A. (Hons), Cambridge University (Trinity Hall).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Dispute resolution > Group litigation: Claimant
Litigation boutique Humphries Kerstetter LLP acts on complex commercial disputes, with significant experience in the class action space. Competition group litigation is a key strength of the team, having notably acted in the high-profile MasterCard and Visa interchange fees proceedings. Solicitor-advocate Toby Starr leads the team, with specific expertise in financial misselling and fraud claims. Key to the practice are consultant Mark Humphries, who co-founded the firm in 2009 after a long career at Linklaters LLP, and managing partner James Russell.
London > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
City litigation boutique Humphries Kerstetter LLP consistently acts in sizeable commercial disputes, on behalf of clients from a range of industry sectors, such as financial services, energy, defence, insurance, and IT. The practice also acts in commercial litigation involving international trade, Pharma, telecoms, media, construction, and extractive projects. Managing partner James Russell‘s experience encompasses commercial and financial disputes that frequently comprise trust and company law issues; senior partner Kristopher Kerstetter’s recent work includes High Court proceedings to enforce an arbitration award; Joanna Pearson is ‘definitely someone clients want on their side‘; Toby Starr has extensive experience in cases involving complex damages issues; and Robert Javin-Fisher acts for both claimants and defendants in major claims. Founder and former senior partner Mark Humphries, who routinely advises on complex cases, is a consultant since April 2022; and Chris Louth, a January 2023 recruit from Rosenblatt, and Harriet Bush are experienced managing associates.
Lawyer Rankings
- Commercial litigation: mid-market London > Dispute resolution
- Group litigation: Claimant London > Dispute resolution