Edward is developing a broad commercial practice spanning the range of Chambers’ expertise, including civil fraud, international arbitration, banking and finance, company, insolvency, energy, commodities and shipping. Edward has experience acting as part of counsel teams of different sizes, in both the Commercial Court and Chancery Division and before a range of arbitral tribunals. He has appeared as sole counsel in the High Court and County Court.
From January to April 2020, Edward worked as a Judicial Assistant in the Commercial Court to Andrew Baker J and Foxton J. He worked on a variety of interlocutory and injunctive hearings as well as applications under the Arbitration Act and a full trial.
Edward has also spent six months on secondment at a leading City litigation firm, specialising in civil fraud where he worked and advised on a range of fraud-related matters including disclosure and freezing injunction applications, sovereign immunity and jurisdiction challenges, derivative claims and insolvency proceedings.
Prior to joining Twenty Essex, Edward read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at New College, Oxford graduating with a first class degree.
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Example cases
Recent and ongoing instructions include:
- Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse and others: (ongoing) acting for the Republic in Commercial Court claims worth over US$2 billion concerning the enforceability of sovereign guarantees and damages for conspiracy, bribery, deceit, dishonest assistance and knowing receipt
- LCIA Arbitration: (ongoing) acting for buyers in US$40 million claim for undelivered quantities of crude oil
- (ongoing) instructed as sole counsel in Commercial Court claim worth over US$1.8million in respect of unpaid sums under a commercial loan
- SCMA Arbitration: US$27 million claim for wrongful termination of a bareboat charter
Civil fraud and asset tracing
- Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse and others: (ongoing) acting for the Republic in Commercial Court claims worth over US$2 billion concerning the enforceability of sovereign guarantees and damages for conspiracy, bribery, deceit, dishonest assistance and knowing receipt
- Settled particulars of claim in breach of confidence dispute between former business partners in the hotel industry
- Advised on issues of privilege and disclosure in a major ‘oligarch’ dispute involving claims in contract and conspiracy worth over US$350 million
- Advised on and drafted the settlement agreement for a complex multi-million-pound dispute involving seven parties and four separate proceedings involving claims in contract, for breaches of fiduciary and directors’ duties and common intention constructive trust
- Assisted in pre-action disclosure application under CPR 31.16 and the Bankers Trust and Norwich Pharmacal jurisdictions
- Assisted (during pupillage) in Commercial Court application seeking an inquiry into damages following the successful discharge of a US$3 billion worldwide freezing and proprietary injunction.
- Assisted (during pupillage) in LCIA-MIAC arbitration acting on behalf of a number of African private equity funds in a dispute raising issues of fraud and partnership law.
International arbitration
- LCIA Arbitration: (ongoing) acting for buyers in US$40 million claim for undelivered quantities of crude oil.
- SCMA Arbitration: US$27 million claim for wrongful termination of a bareboat charter.
- Assisted (during pupillage) in dispute concerning the enforcement of a £100 million BIT arbitration award against a state raising issues of public policy, issue estoppel and state immunity, as well as the application of the CJEU’s significant decision in Slovak Republic v Achmea BV (Case C-284/16).
Banking and financial services
- Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse and others: (ongoing) acting for the Republic in Commercial Court claims worth over US$2 billion concerning the enforceability of sovereign guarantees and damages for conspiracy, bribery, deceit, dishonest assistance and knowing receipt.
- (ongoing) Acting on behalf of Citigroup defending various County Court consumer claims over alleged PPI mis-selling, including issues concerning deliberate concealment and reliance on section 32 of the Limitation Act 1980.
- Assisted (during pupillage) in High Court dispute concerning an allegedly fraudulent alteration of loan and interest-rate swap transaction documents.
Jurisdiction, conflicts and enforcement
- Ongoing Commercial Court dispute concerning the enforcement of a £100 million BIT arbitration award against a state raising issues of public policy, issue estoppel and state immunity, as well as consideration of the CJEU’s recent decision in Slovak Republic v Achmea BV (Case C-284/16).
- Ongoing action concerning the enforcement of a US$79 million US judgment for treble damages, raising issues of public policy, abuse of process and the proper application of the Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980.
- Ongoing Commercial Court dispute concerning enforcement of £300 million BIT award against a European state raising issues of state immunity, public policy and issue estoppel.
- Advice on enforcement of US judgment against a Middle Eastern state raising issues of limitation, state immunity and the proper application of s. 31 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982.
- Commercial Court application obtaining a worldwide freezing order in aid of enforcing an arbitral award and in subsequently obtaining an order for committal for failure to comply with the disclosure obligations in the freezing order.
- Commercial Court hearing seeking an inquiry into damages following the successful discharge of a US$3 billion worldwide freezing and proprietary injunction.
Shipping
Edward has experience advising and acting in a variety of charterparty, bill of lading and cargo disputes. Notable recent experience includes:
- SCMA Arbitration: US$27 million claim for wrongful termination of a bareboat charter.
- Assisted (during pupillage) in Commercial Court dispute concerning breach by charterers of a Mackay v Dick implied term in a charterparty subject to suppliers’ approval.
