Essex Court Chambers

Experienced and effective cross examiner with ‘an incredibly impressive style and approach’ who is ‘extremely able and approachable’. Specialises as an advocate in substantial and complex international and commercial disputes, leading teams of junior counsel and often appearing as co-counsel with overseas lawyers. Appears regularly at all levels in the courts in the UK as well as offshore and he has appeared in many international arbitrations both in London and worldwide. Has appeared on numerous occasions as advocate before the Privy Council. In recent years he has been engaged in an extremely heavy nine-month Chancery Division telecommunications/civil fraud trial, various injunction applications (including applications for injunctive relief under s44 of the Arbitration Act 1996, anti-suit injunctions and freezing injunctions), appeals to the Court of Appeal and several substantial international commercial arbitrations (eg ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, LMAA) in London and Malaysia. Sits as an arbitrator in international arbitrations and is also a CEDR-accredited mediator.

Essex Court Chambers; QC 2006.

Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR); London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association; London Court of International Arbitration; London Maritime Arbitrators Association.