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Current highlights of Max’s practice include his work in large group litigation. Max is currently instructed on a number of such cases, for example, the Fundão Dam Litigation, the largest (by number of Claimants) group litigation in England and Wales, where Max acts for the defendant, BHP in the 14 week trial commencing in October 2024.

Other recent highlights  include: Virgin Enterprises Limited v Brightline Holdings LLC [2023] EWHC 2240 (Comm), a ca. US$115m claim in the Commercial Court arising out of the early termination by Brightline of a 20+ year licensing agreement.  Max acted for Virgin in the three-week Commercial Court trial of this matter in July 2023. And SKAT v Solo Capital Partners, a multi-billion claim in the Commercial Court against over 100 defendants arising out of a fraud on SKAT, the Danish revenue authority. Max acted for SKAT in the recent four-week Commercial Court trial of preliminary issues [2023] EWHC 590 (Comm).

Max also has considerable experience in the energy sector (e.g., an ICC Arbitration concerning a major gas pipeline infrastructure project (2019), and an LCIA Arbitration concerning a major energy construction project (2017-2019); and in the banking/finance sector, for example, the RBS Rights Issue Litigation; Dana Gas PJSC v Dana Gas Sukuk Limited; and his work in three Madoff-related cases (each in the Privy Council, e.g., Pearson v Primeo Fund (No 2) [2020] UKPC 3.

Called 2013; Inner Temple. Maximilian worked as a research assistant at the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation in 2010 before joining Slaughter and May. He transferred to the Bar in 2012.

Publication of note: ‘The Principle of Effectiveness and Restitution of Overpaid Tax’ in S Elliott (et al) (eds.), Restitution of Overpaid Tax (Hart Publishing, 2013).

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University of Cambridge, Christ’s College (2008 BA Law (Hons) Starred First); University of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall (2009 BCL (Distinction)).

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