Gary is a senior associate in our disputes practice based in London.
Gary has experience of working with clients on a broad range of commercial disputes, encompassing litigation, arbitration, mediation, settlement negotiations and advisory work. This includes advising on complex contractual disputes, fraud and conspiracy, economic torts, freezing injunctions and disclosure orders, and jurisdiction and choice of law issues.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- Hipgnosis Song Management Limited and Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited in defending High Court proceedings involving allegations of dishonest assistance and knowing receipt regarding alleged breaches of directors’ duties
- Binance in defending High Court proceedings involving proprietary and unjust enrichment claims regarding the alleged tracing of the proceeds of a cryptocurrency fraud to the Binance exchange
- Binance in the first reported case in England in which a freezing injunction was fully and successfully contested by a cryptocurrency exchange on the return date
- Westpac Banking Corporation in successfully opposing a Bankers Trust disclosure order and challenging the jurisdiction of the English High Court in relation to proprietary, knowing receipt and unjust enrichment claims
- ICBC Standard Bank Plc in connection with High Court proceedings relating to Cuban sovereign debt
- Cowen International Limited, a prime brokerage, in defending High Court proceedings in relation to alleged breaches of contract regarding the issuing of margin calls to one of its clients
- a private equity firm in relation to various breach of warranty claims pursuant to share purchase agreements, including proceedings in the English High Court against insurers under a warranty and indemnity insurance policy
- a leading insurance broker in relation to various high-profile team moves to competitor brokers
Background
Gary studied law at the University of Cambridge, Downing College. He joined the firm as a trainee in September 2012 and was admitted as a solicitor in September 2014.
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