Experience

• • Defended an investment management firm against claims by a former executive asserting a perpetual interest in the business, securing a trial victory.
  • Defended a mining company in split trials on liability and damages arising from a commercial dispute with a business counterparty.
  • Advised a beneficiary of an offshore trust in litigation involving an attempt by a family member to revoke a $2 billion trust on grounds of undue influence and abuse of confidence, ending with settlement during the course of an eighteen months' trial.
  • Defended a global investment bank's trust business against allegations of grossly negligent breach of trust, resolving the matter during the course of a nine months' trial.
  • Defended a global asset manager against claims by investors alleging breach of contract and misrepresentation in connection with a real estate investment fund, securing summary dismissal of claims valued near £1 billion.
  • Defended a hedge fund firm against claims of mis-selling complex financial products, resolving the matter shortly before trial.
  • Advised an institutional trustee in connection with claims that trust assets were subject to an unwritten partnership, resulting in settlement.
  • Advised a trustee on unprecedented changes to a trust and its subsequent approval by an offshore court.
  • Defended a UK pharmaceutical company against claims of economic duress and intimidation brought by a US competitor, resolving the matter after a heavy trial lasting eight weeks.
  • Defended a private capital sponsor against claims under insolvency law alleging fraudulent conveyance, securing withdrawal of the claims with indemnity costs during trial.
  • Defended a corporate director and offshore trustees against claims for breach of fiduciary duty and knowing receipt relating to an offshore investment fund.
  • Advised directors of a global industrial business headquartered in the US in connection with a threatened derivative claim brought by minority shareholders, resulting in settlement.
  • Advised beneficiaries of high-value trusts in a US dispute over a sibling's beneficiary status, including questions of DNA testing, resolving the matter through settlement.
  • Advised a global freight forwarding business in relation to claims against the sellers of a UK business with inflated financial statements.
  • Advised a trustee and a high-net-worth individual in a shareholder dispute involving an emerging markets hedge fund business, securing a successful outcome at final arbitral hearing.
  • Advised a global bank seeking to enforce a debt in Mauritius and litigating the matter through the appeal courts to the Privy Council in London.
  • Advised directors in defending civil and criminal proceedings in Italy arising from a company's business collapse, securing successful outcomes at trial and on appeal.
  • Advised a telecommunications company in successfully defending claims for breach of duty of good faith and collusion, with the trial court's judgment upheld on appeal.
  • Advised a corporate client defending a double-derivative claim threatened by a minority shareholder but injuncted from proceeding with the claim by one of the offshore courts.
  • Advised a corporate client and its UBO in defending against claims both in the US and the UK for multiple breaches of a software licence brought by a global technology company.
  • Advised a high-net-worth individual in connection with his role as CEO of a global business and its ownership, management and control and the terms of sale of the business and sharing of net sale proceeds between him and other members of his family.
  • Advised a family in relation to their global pharmaceutical business interests in the face of multiple law suits in the US.
  • Advising a high-net-worth individual bringing claims for breach of trust against an offshore trust business.
  • Advising a bank trustee in relation to a complex trust restructuring.
  • Advising members of a board of directors defending claims for breach of fiduciary duty in the context of a minority shareholder's claims of unfair prejudice.