Chairs the firm’s fraud group. Has acted in eleven of the twenty largest asset-tracing claims heard in the Commercial Court since 2015, usually where the money has already moved three times and the defendant has stopped answering letters. Sits on the civil committee of the Fraud Advisory Panel.

Sits as an arbitrator in LCIA and SIAC references and appears as counsel in energy and construction disputes across three continents. Has run twelve hearings under the 1996 Act and set aside two awards on jurisdiction. Reads the arbitration agreement before anything else, and says early when it will not bear the weight being put on it.

Handles shareholder and joint-venture disputes, usually where the relationship has broken down entirely and the parties still have to trade with each other. Has taken four unfair-prejudice petitions to judgment and settled a good many more at the door of the court. Will tell you when a buy-out at a fair price beats a finding in your favour.

Freezing orders, search orders, and the unglamorous work of enforcing them in jurisdictions that would rather you did not. Obtained worldwide relief on eight hours’ notice twice in the last two years. Spends as long on the cross-undertaking in damages as on the application itself, because that is where the real exposure sits.

Acts for lenders and borrowers in facility disputes, derivatives close-outs, and the regulatory investigations that tend to follow them. Appeared in three of the reported ISDA close-out valuation cases. Comfortable with the models, which shortens the argument about what the numbers actually show.

Advises office-holders and creditors, and litigates the claims that survive a restructuring rather than the ones that die with it. Has run wrongful-trading and transaction-avoidance claims to trial, and defended directors against both. Knows which claims are worth funding, and says so before the costs are committed.