• Acting for a cryptocurrency mining company in dispute with its former IT supplier over the alleged failure to provide a system which would permit the owners of cryptocurrencies holders to spend their cryptocurrency in real world transactions using a debit card;

• Acting successfully for the promoter of a company sued for fraudulent misrepresentation while a parallel criminal investigation was ongoing: Barley v. Muir [2018] EWHC 619 (QB). Following the dismissal of the civil claim, criminal proceedings were abandoned;

• Acting for a claimant seeking damages for the repudiation of an option over 5% of the shareholding in a private bank in Luxembourg;

• Acting for four overseas defendants sued jointly for a £1 million placement fee said to be due following a fundraising;

• Acting for a Russian bank and a Bulgarian telecommunications company in a dispute with a UK bank over the distribution of €15 million held in escrow following a capital restructuring;

• Acting for the successful claimants in Bataillon v. Shone [2016] EWHC 1174 (QB) concerning the liability under Section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 of the estranged wife of a party in breach of contract to contribute towards a judgment against him by setting aside transactions in her favour – widely-reported and commented upon in a number of respects;

• Acting for the defendant in Porter Capital Corporation v. Masters at first instance (judgment in December 2013) and on appeal ([2016] EWCA Civ 5) concerning the construction of foreign law loan and guarantee documents and numerous technical accounting issues arising from those issues of construction;

• Acting for the successful claimant in Walsham Chalet Park Limited v. Tallington Lakes Limited [2015] EWHC 2083 (QB) – which featured a significant interim appeal ([2014] EWCA Civ 1607 – widely-reported and cited since) concerning the importance of the parties’ obligation to co-operate to bring a case to trial in the context of arguments concerning procedural default;

• Acting for a film production company in various disputes arising from delays in the production of a music promotional video;

• Advising on consolidated claims against former solicitors for negligent advice in relation to security documents for loans;

• Acting for an alleged partner in an investment scheme which it was claimed contravened the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

• Acting for a manufacturer in a claim brought in the Technology and Construction Court by the ultimate consumer of a fire protection system;

• Acting for a private equity placement agent in a dispute with another placement agent concerning fees;

• Acting on behalf of a partnership of general practitioners in a negligence claim against their former solicitors in relation to past, present and future funding arrangements for NHS practices;

• Acting as part of a team of litigators in forensic investigations required to recover over £4 million misappropriated funds in respect of a false invoicing scheme;

• Acting for a national package holiday company against a timeshare telemarketing operation and successfully preventing the defendant from using the claimant’s name without permission;

• Acting for the claimant in McKinnon & anor v E.Surv Limited [2003] EWHC 475 (Ch)

• MA (Hons), St John’s College, Oxford, 1992-1995

• CPE, City University, 1996-1997

• BVC, Inns of Court School of Law, 1997-1998

• QLTT, BPP Law School, 2003

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