Humphries Kerstetter LLP

Commercial Litigation and arbitration

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.

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.

English and basic German and Japanese

1993: The College of Law, Chester.

1992: B.A. (Hons), Cambridge University (Trinity Hall).