Curriculum Vitae

Advising prospective founders, startups, scale-ups, and established legaltech providers internationally on AI product development, risk architecture, and practical implementation.

• Establishing reliable sourcing for legal research and analysis
• Contributing to product risk controls and AI output reliability
• Retrieval system design and protocol development
• Focus on local AI solutions for privacy and control

Developing full-stack local RAG platform for litigation document search, deployed in live High Court and CAT cases.

• Custom hallucination/verification protocols adopted by commercial AI partners
• Python/Streamlit/FAISS/Chroma automations integrating case data with public APIs
• Deep understanding of data privacy, regulatory requirements, GDPR
• Workshops and training for lawyers on AI deployment and workflow automation

Lead solicitor on high-profile group and commercial claims including civil fraud, competition litigation, asset tracing, and enforcement.

• Successfully defended CICC's funding structure through CAT, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court—ending a two-year challenge to litigation funding in collective proceedings
• Managing complex multi-party litigation with significant document volumes
• Litigation funding and ATE structuring expertise

Sensitive internal investigations for UHNW individuals and multinational companies, litigation and arbitration.

• Cross-border regulatory investigations
• Compliance advisory for major corporates
• High-stakes disputes with reputational sensitivity

Lead English solicitor on £100m+ international arbitration and investor-state disputes, High Court and DIFC litigation.

• Managed cross-border teams on energy, construction, and enforcement matters
• ICSID and UNCITRAL arbitration proceedings
• Complex enforcement across multiple jurisdictions

Built foundation in contentious insolvency, commercial disputes, investigations, and international arbitration.

• Joseph Hage Aaronson (2012–2014): Contentious insolvency, trusts, international arbitration
• Quinn Emanuel (2011–2012): Major commercial litigation
• Gibson Dunn (2010–2011): International disputes and investigations
• Trowers & Hamlins (2008–2010): Training contract