7 King's Bench Walk

Year of Call: 2017

Henry has a broad commercial practice, encompassing a variety of practice areas including shipping, insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence and civil fraud.

Henry is regularly instructed in a variety of domestic and international commercial matters, both as sole counsel and as a junior. He has completed secondments at several leading City law firms and has appeared as sole counsel in arbitration, the High Court and the County Court and as a junior in the Commercial Court.

Examples of recent instructions include:

• Acting as junior counsel in a number of major professional negligence disputes against auditors and solicitors;
• Acting as junior counsel in a $50 million Bermuda Form insurance arbitration;
• Acting as junior counsel in a €50m international arbitration concerning repayment of a loan;
• Acting as junior counsel in a s9 Arbitration Act 1996 hearing in the Commercial Court;
• Kyla Shipping Co Ltd and another v Freight Trading Ltd and others [2022] EWHC 1625 (Comm): junior counsel in a lengthy Commercial Court trial concerning fraudulent trading of forward freight agreements (FFAs);
• Acting as sole counsel in a collision claim in the Admiralty Court."