Essex Court Chambers

Barrister specialising in commercial litigation and international arbitration - most matters involve a cross-border element, often including choice of law and jurisdictional issues. In terms of substantive law, recent cases have involved: a wide range of contractual issues; financial transactions and instruments; joint venture/shareholder disputes; economic torts; and fraud. Some have also included treaty interpretation and other questions of public international law.

2018 Chair of the Young Bar of England & Wales

2017 Vice Chair of the Young Bar of England & Wales

2013-14 Pupillage at Essex Court Chambers (with Edmund King QC)

2013 Called to the Bar, Lincoln’s Inn

2012-13 Research Assistant to Prof Ben McFarlane, focusing on Proprietary Estoppel

2010 Research Assistant to Prof Johannes Köndgen, focusing on European Banking Regulation

2009 Research Intern, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, as part of the ADR Project Team

English (Native)German (Fluent)

Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR)

2012-13 BPTC, City Law School (Very Competent)

2011-2012 BCL, Brasenose College, Oxford (Distinction)

2011 Directed Studies in Public International Law, Hague Academy of International Law

2009-10 ERASMUS Programme, University of Bonn

2007-11 BA in Jurisprudence with Law Studies in Europe, Brasenose College, Oxford (1st Class Hons)