Barrister practising across a wide range of areas of commercial law, with particular emphasis on insurance and reinsurance, aviation, professional negligence and civil fraud. Some highlights include:
Representing the reinsured in a number of Covid-19 business interruption reinsurance claims Representing trade credit insurers in a US$32 million arbitration claim in Singapore Representing Excess Insurers in a US$34 million Bermuda Form arbitration Dana Petroleum (E&P) Ltd v. Zurich Insurance PLC and Ors, representing the oil and gas company in its £30 million claims against its insurers Deslauriers v Guardian Asset Management Limited in the Privy Council, acting on behalf of the successful Respondent lender, in a case concerning the scope of a lender’s duty to advise borrowers Ardila Investment NV v ENRC NV, a US$285 million SPA dispute involving allegations of fraud Defending aviation liability insurers against a US$30 million claim AB Orlen Lietuva v Aon UK Ltd, a US$100 million professional negligence claim against the insurance brokersBA History and Modern Languages (First class, top in the year), Pembroke College, Oxford (2006)
Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction, second in the year), City University (2007)
BVC (Outstanding), Inns of Court School of Law (2008)
LL.M., Harvard (2009)