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Well-known specialist, advising on/drafting a wide range of complex financial services/regulatory related matters for UK & overseas clients and foreign governments. Also company/commercial drafting. Sits as an arbitrator in financial disputes and commercial matters.

Notable cases: Needler Financial Services v Taber (pensions review test case); Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency v Dresdner Bank (equitable set-of against sovereign bank account); Eurosure Investment Services v FSA (whether exercise of FSA's own-initiative power 'proportionate'); FSA v Pace Microtechnology (breach of listing rules), FSA v Evolution Beeson Gregory (first market manipulation case); FSA v Anderson, Peacock & Pruthi (deposit-taking/colective investment scheme - £115m involved); R (Ya land & Wilding) Sec. State for Exiting EU (whether Parliamentary consent necessary for UK to leave EEA).

Called 1987. Initially practised at chambers of JJ Rowe QC, then worked as legal adviser at HM Treasury dealing with wide range of financial services issues and related areas (inter alia drafting legislation, negotiating and implementing EU directives). 1996: Returned to the Bar.

Publications of note: ‘Halsbury’s Laws: Corporations’ 4th ed, ‘Halsbury’s Laws: Money’ 4th ed, ‘Butterworths Practical Insolvency: Part VII Companies Act 1989’, ‘Tolley’s Company Law: Investor Protection, Companies and the FSMA 2000’. Contributor, ‘Annotated Companies Acts, OUP’, contributor to ‘Civil Appeals’ Sweet & Maxwell.

French.

Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR; Financial Services Lawyers Association; FCIArb and Chartered Arbitrator (CIArb); French Bar (Paris); Energy Arbitration Club; Franco-British Lawyers Association.

MA (Oxon), MA Law (City, Lond), Dip European Law (Kings, Lond)