Barrister specialising in corporate and shareholder disputes; banking and finance; fraud and asset tracing (including emergency injunctive relief); sale of goods and international trade; commodity disputes; commercial contractual disputes; equity and trusts; private international/conflicts of law issues; and international arbitration (in particular, under LCIA and ICC Rules). Extensive experience of CIS-related arbitration and litigation (including those involving issues of local substantive and procedural law).
Qualified 1989; Lincoln’s Inn.
Vice-Chairman of the International Committee of the Bar of England & Wales and its representative for Russia and the CIS; Secretary of the British-Russian and British-Kazakh Law Associations; LCIA (including appointments as arbitrator); and Consultant on legal projects across the CIS, including in relation to the reform of arbitration laws.
Merchant Taylors School, Northwood; Nottingham University (BA Law).
Football; cricket; tennis; running; reading (particular in relation to politics and international affairs).