• Loreley Financing v Credit Suisse (a claim in deceit and misrepresentation arising out of an allegedly fraudulent CDO transaction linked to a portfolio of residential mortgage backed securities in 2007)
• Federal Republic of Nigeria v JP Morgan (a claim alleging breach of the Quincecare duty of care, for in excess of $875 million (as a pupil with Roger Masefield QC, Richard Blakeley and Jonathan Scott). This is one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2019
• Stockoe Partnership Solicitors v Grayson & others (a claim for breach of confidence and unlawful conspiracy involving allegations of unlawful hacking of confidential information, as a pupil with Tim Lord QC, Gerard Rothschild and Frederick Wilmot-Smith)
• Amira c Foods International v IDBI Bank CA-004-2021 (an appeal before the Dubai Court of Appeal on the issue of abuse of process in relation to proceedings for the recovery of sums outstanding from a facilities agreement, as a pupil with Roger Masefield QC)
• PT Ventures v Vidatel (opposed application in the BVI to wind-up Vidatel to satisfy an arbitration award and court order in favour of PT Ventures in the value of over USD 390m, raising issues of abuse of process, as a pupil with Roger Masefield QC)
• An arbitration involving allegations of breach of contract and infringements of EU law seeking damages worth c.£150 million, as a pupil with Helen Davies QC and Gerard Rothschild.
• Advised a reinsurer in relation to the scope of coverage provided by several policies of excess loss reinsurance in relation to business interruption claims arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic, as a pupil with Roger Masefield QC.
• Xerox v FM Insurance (insurance claims for losses arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic, as a pupil with Roger Masefield QC).

• Michael O’Higgins FX Class Representative Ltd. v. Barclays & others (Mr O’Higgins’ application to the Competition Appeal Tribunal for a Collective Proceedings Order and the ensuing carriage dispute (the first of its kind in English law) seeking follow-on damages for the victims of foreign exchange cartels, as a pupil with Daniel Jowell QC and Gerard Rothschild).
• Facebook v CMA [2021] EWCA Civ 701 (Facebook’s appeal before the Court of Appeal in relation to a refusal by the CMA to grant derogations from an interim enforcement order in connection with Facebook’s acquisition of GIPHY Inc., as a pupil Robert O’Donoghue QC, Gerard Rothschild and Tom Pascoe).
• Advised a client in the electricity sector on alleged non-compliance with licence conditions, as a pupil with Gerard Rothschild.

• R (Bluebird Boats Ltd) v The Royal Parks Ltd [2020] EWHC 3647 (Admin) (application for permission for judicial review and interim relief challenging the decision to refuse Bluebird Boats permission to continue trading on the Serpentine, as a pupil with Maya Lester QC, Sarah Love and Richard Howell).
• Live Nation v The Royal Parks (a public procurement challenge of a tender exercise to award the Hyde Park Music Festival, as a pupil with Sarah Love).
• R (Medical Defence Union) v Secretary of State for Health (state aid challenge to the assumption by the State of GPs’ clinical negligence liabilities, with James Flynn QC and Sarah Love).
• Acting for Ofwat before the CMA (as a pupil with Jemima Stratford QC and Sarah Love)

Professional Experience

2019-20: Judicial Assistant to Lord Justice Patten, Court of Appeal

Education

2018-19: BPTC, City Law School

2017-18: GDL, City Law School

2015-17: DPhil, St Cross College, Oxford

2013-15: MPhil, Pembroke College, Oxford

2010-13: BA, Pembroke College, Oxford (First Class, top of year)

Prizes and Scholarships

• Bar European Group John and Sophie Laws Scholar

Lincoln’s Inn

• Lord Bowen Scholarship
• Denning Scholarship

City Law School

• City Law School Scholarship for BPTC
• City Law School Scholarship for GDL

Academic prizes at the University of Oxford

• AHRC Full Scholarship (funded DPhil)
• Pembroke College Graduate Scholarship (funded MPhil)
• Crewdson Trust Scholarship
• Gibbs Prize for top mark in Finals Examinations
• Domus Scholarship – Pembroke College