Nic is a Partner in the firm's award-winning Financial Services Disputes practice.
Nic is a Partner with significant experience in leading commercial disputes, arbitration, contentious regulatory matters and internal investigations.
Nic has deep experience in relation to disputes involving the financial services sector and group actions, and many of his matters have involved parallel proceedings/regulatory investigations.
Nic knows how international clients like to work having spent two years of his career on secondment to our Singapore office, a major European airline, a leading UK-based bank and a global investment and wholesale bank.
Nic has consistently been ranked in the leading legal directories.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- a European investment bank in relation to a US$1.4 billion arbitration claim threatened against it by a prominent Saudi businessman in connection with a finance joint venture business
- an international wholesale bank in connection with its successful defence of a group claim involving several hundred claimants which relates to the activities of its former commercial banking business in the UK
- a commercial bank on its successful defence of a c.£100m claim involving allegations of breach of good faith, economic duress and misrepresentation, as part of which the bank was awarded indemnity costs and a substantial payment on account of costs
- a leading UK-based bank on a portfolio of large scale banking disputes, including a £400 million claim involving allegations of fraud
- an international foreign exchange broker on its defence of a c.£50m group claim brought by investors in a foreign exchange trading scheme involving allegations of dishonest assistance and knowing receipt which has involved parallel proceedings in the Federal Court in Colorado
- a mortgage servicing company on its defence of a potential group claim reported to involve over 15,000 claimants and be worth over £800 million and other related proceedings
- an international wholesale and trade finance bank in connection with its claim to recover approximately US$50 million against a defaulting borrower which has involved proceedings in the Eastern Caribbean and contemplated proceedings in other jurisdictions
- a global commercial and wholesale bank on its defence of a claim for breach of mandate for failing to pay distributions under various investment agreements, involving a novel challenge to the basis on which a suspicious activity report was filed
- a group of hedge funds in their challenge to the Court sanction of a scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006 involving a satellite communications business
- a global commercial and wholesale bank on various internal investigations arising from its private wealth business and associated regulatory production order requests
- a leading UK-based bank in relation to a voluntary remediation exercise and associated consequential loss review programme
Sectors
Background
Nic graduated summa cum laude from Nazareth College with a Bachelor of Arts in History and completed the GDL and LPC at BPP University.
Nic is admitted to practise in England and Wales.
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