Dispute Resolution

Joanne is an English law qualified solicitor with over fifteen years of dispute resolution experience, with a particular focus on international commercial arbitration and litigation, including disputes with a significant cross-border element.  

Joanne advises clients on a wide range of financial and commercial disputes, including complex joint venture and shareholder arrangements, with particular expertise in disputes emerging from large scale Middle Eastern projects and financial settlements, acting for major corporates, financial institutions and high net worth individuals.

Joanne is well experienced in managing disputes under all of the major arbitral institutional rules, including the DIAC, LCIA and ICC Rules, and regularly sits as an arbitrator.  Joanne is also experienced in managing cases before the Courts of England and Wales, the Courts of the Dubai International Financial Centre and the Dubai World Tribunal and is well experienced with coordinating strategies on matters arising before the UAE Courts. 

Joanne is consistently ranked by The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners Global Directories and praised for her work in International Arbitration and DIFC Litigation.  Joanne is listed in the Construction Week Power List, 2021.

Solicitor of England and Wales

UAE registered Legal Consultant

DIFC Registered Practitioner

Managing Partner – Dubai