7 King's Bench Walk

Philip maintains a broad practice encompassing shipping, (re)insurance, civil fraud, and general commercial litigation. He has appeared as sole counsel in the Commercial Court and County Court, as well as being led in the Commercial Court and in arbitration. Current or recent instructions include (as junior counsel) a US$290 million shipbuilding arbitration, a Commercial Court civil fraud case, and a number of Covid-related insurance/reinsurance disputes, as well as instructions to act as sole counsel in several substantial LMAA shipping matters. Philip has also been extensively involved in advising on the impact, principally in the insurance and reinsurance context, of the sanctions imposed in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Philip has also spent time on secondment at a number of leading solicitors’ firms, where he worked on a wide range of commercial matters, including disputes over jurisdiction, conflict of laws and state immunity as well as an extensive regulatory review of a complex programme of international reinsurance arrangements.

Philip accepts instructions, led or unled, in any commercial dispute.