Commercial litigation and arbitration with particular emphasis on civil fraud and asset recovery; financial services and banking including CMBS and other securitisation disputes; insolvency and company law including proceedings under the Insolvency Act 1986, directors’ duties, unfair prejudice petitions and other shareholder disputes.

Commercial litigation and arbitration with particular emphasis on civil fraud and asset recovery; financial services and banking including CMBS and other securitisation disputes; insolvency and company law including proceedings under the Insolvency Act 1986, directors’ duties, and shareholder disputes. Recent cases include: Serco shareholder litigation (settled at trial in 2024) ;  Banca Generali v Sovereign Credit Opportunities [2024] EWCA Civ 866; Madison Pacific Trust v SquareTwo Capital [2023] EWHC 2605; Croxen v GEMA [2022] EWHC 2826; Re Bulb Energy [2021] EWHC 3735; GEHC v Gray [2021] EWCA Civ 123 and [2020] EWCA Civ 1668; Travelport v WEX [2020] EWHC 2670 (Comm); Stanford International Bank Plc v HSBC Bank Plc [2020] EWHC 2232; Deutsche Trustee Co Ltd v Duchess VI CLO BV [2020] EWCA Civ 521; Singularis Holdings Ltd v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Plc [2019] UKSC 50; Hosking v Apax Partners LLP [2019] 1 WLR 3347; Re Peak Hotels and Resorts Ltd [2019] 1 WLR 2145; Playboy Club London v BNL SA [2018] UKSC 43.

Publications: Contributor to OUP's 'Annotated Companies Acts'; Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Finance Law.

Queen Mother Scholar of Middle Temple. Called March 1998. Joined 4 Stone Buildings in October 1998. QC in 2019

French.

Commercial Bar Association, Chancery Bar Association (Main committee; Chair pro bono sub-committee).

Sherborne School, Sherborne; Magdalene College, Cambridge (MA).

Educated at Sherborne School, Dorset and Magdalene College, Cambridge (MA).

Sports, particularly cricket (including representing the Bar at the Lawyers’ Cricket World Cup).