Commercial work, specialising in banking law both domestic and international, including drafting of banking documentation. Arbitration, business law, commercial fraud, company law, financial services, intellectual property, international trade, insolvency, insurance and reinsurance, private international law, professional negligence; cases: Lehman [2010]; Moulin (HK) [2010]; Wing Fai (HK) [2010]; HSBC v Esquire (HK) [2008]; Base Metals [2004]; Etridge [2001]; Dubai Aluminium [2001]; Polly Peck v Stoy Hayward [1998]; Grupo Torras [1998]; Re: BCCI SA [1996]; Ian Maxwell before the Select Committee (televised); Barclays Bank v O’Brien [1993]; Wadha Bank v Arab Bank [1993]; Arrows [1993].

Called 1970; QC 1989; deputy High Court judge; Recorder; chairman of the Commercial Bar Association 1995-97; co-author of ‘Lender Liability’ 1993; contributing author of ‘Banks, Liability and Risk’ (2nd edn 1995); international editor of ‘Journal of Banking and Finance – Law and Practice’; writer of several articles on banking law for the Journal of International Banking & Finance.

Cambridge University (MA).