Andrew Johnstone
Litigation, Insolvency and Restructuring
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James Kitching
James is a leading barrister with over 20 years of experience in civil, criminal, and regulatory proceedings, as well as complex commercial disputes across multiple jurisdictions. He has defended governments, central banks, and some of the world’s leading corporations and financial institutions in cases often involving disputes exceeding US$1 billion.
James is a seasoned advocate and regularly appears before the High Court (including the Commercial Court, Companies Court, King’s Bench, and Chancery Divisions), appellate courts, and arbitral tribunals.
James frequently serves as counsel in international arbitration proceedings under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and the Swiss Chambers’ Court of Arbitration.
James also focuses on white collar enforcement and internal investigations in connection with alleged bribery and corruption, money laundering, export control and sanctions violations. He has particular expertise in advising on cross-border matters and has conducted investigations for the World Bank. He represents clients across diverse sectors including financial services, private equity, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, telecoms and IT.
John O'Driscoll
John O'Driscoll is based in Walkers' London office where he is a member of the Global Insolvency and Corporate Recovery Group. John specialises in contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency matters. John advises on all forms of formal appointments of insolvency officeholders in the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Ireland and advises creditors, debtors, private equity and hedge funds and other stakeholders. He has worked on aspects of large international restructurings including MF Global, Lehman Brothers and Nortel and has significant experience in insolvency litigation having worked on multi-jurisdictional disputes. Prior to his move to the London office John also worked in the firm's Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands offices.
Natasha Guthrie
Natasha is an Associate Solicitor in the Commercial Litigation team in Sheffield, which undertakes a wide variety of commercial disputes. She has a particular specialism in claimant professional negligence claims and deals with a vast breadth of professional negligence cases as head of the professional negligence unit of the Sheffield team. In particular, she handles claims against solicitors, architects, surveyors, accountants, barristers, financial advisors and insurance brokers.