Experience

A disputes lawyer who builds.

I began my training contract in 2008 and qualified in 2010. My work covers commercial litigation, civil fraud, group actions and international arbitration, in London and Dubai. Since spring 2025, I have also been building and testing software. How that work developed →

Jurisdictions

Where the work has taken me.

England and WalesCommercial Court, Competition Appeal Tribunal, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Solicitor advocate with higher rights of audience.

United Arab EmiratesPractised in Dubai, then handled DIFC and Gulf matters from London, including construction disputes and arbitral enforcement.

East AfricaICSID and UNCITRAL arbitrations involving Tanzania and Uganda, in energy and natural resources.

Former CISA challenge to a Kazakh arbitration award under section 67 of the Arbitration Act; a £3bn shareholder dispute in the High Court.

South AmericaEnforcement proceedings against Venezuela in the High Court.

IndiaA long-running internal fraud investigation for an Indian multinational.

Legal practice

Career.

2020 – 2026

Senior Associate

Harcus Parker, London

Lead solicitor on group and commercial claims involving civil fraud, competition, asset tracing and enforcement.

Defended the funding structure in a collective action through a two-year challenge involving the Competition Appeal Tribunal, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
Co-ordinated groups of claimant law firms acting under common-interest arrangements, aligning strategy, evidence, disclosure and advocacy across firms.
A 46-party multi-jurisdictional civil fraud claim for a litigation funder: asset tracing and enforcement.
Collective proceedings against Mastercard and Visa in the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

2018 – 2020

Associate

King & Spalding, London

Sensitive internal investigations for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and multinationals; litigation and international arbitration; criminal and regulatory defence.

2014 – 2017

Associate

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, London

Lead English-qualified solicitor on £100m-plus international and investor-state arbitrations and on High Court and DIFC litigation, managing cross-border teams on energy, construction and enforcement matters.

A £100m ICSID expropriation claim concerning Tanzania's state electricity company.
A £350m UNCITRAL tax and natural resources claim involving Uganda.
A section 67 Arbitration Act challenge concerning Kazakhstan.
High Court enforcement proceedings against Venezuela.

2012 – 2014

Associate

Joseph Hage Aaronson, London

Contentious insolvency, trusts, international arbitration, commercial disputes and investigations.

2008 – 2012

Earlier roles

Quinn Emanuel · Gibson Dunn · Trowers & Hamlins

Major commercial litigation at Quinn Emanuel (2011–12); international disputes and investigations at Gibson Dunn (2010–11); training contract at Trowers & Hamlins in London and Dubai (2008–10).

Legal engineering

Software, training and advisory work.

I have built around forty systems informed by legal practice. My work includes skills released in the LegalQuants plugins for OpenAI's Astra for Law, pre-release consultancy on Anthropic's Claude for Legal, and agent design and output checking for a production litigation AI platform.

From November 2026

Programme Director, LegalQuants AI Residency

Cohort 4

LegalQuants' four-week programme in which lawyers build a tool for their practice with a mentor. I mentored on Cohorts 2 and 3 and am programme director for Cohort 4, assisting Jamie Tso, who runs the Residency. About the LegalQuants AI Residency →

September 2026

Two skills for OpenAI's Astra for Law

LegalQuants plugins

I built pressuretest and timenarratives over the summer of 2026. They were released at the Astra for Law launch in the LegalQuants Litigation plugin. How the skills work →

August 2026

Claude Certified Architect

Anthropic

May 2026

Pre-release consultant, Claude for Legal

Anthropic, with LegalQuants

Consulted to Anthropic before the release of Claude for Legal.

Ongoing

Founder, LQuorum and The Spire

Community platform

I founded, built and operate a platform for a private community of 150+ lawyers across 17 jurisdictions. It includes encrypted chat, reviewed resources, connections for members' agents and isolated environments for demonstrating tools.

Ongoing

Training and advisory

Law firms, in-house teams, legal technology companies

Workshops and mentoring on using and building AI tools, including programmes teaching in-house legal, tax and compliance teams to build Microsoft 365 Copilot agents. Advice to legal technology companies on sources, risk controls and checking outputs.

Ongoing

Legal software projects

Around forty projects

A local retrieval platform used in High Court and Competition Appeal Tribunal matters, citation verifiers, litigation analytics, and the infrastructure that runs them. Selected projects →

Recognition Legal 500, 2025: "Exceptionally bright – a really good lawyer." Law Society Gazette, Lawyer in the News, July 2025.

Education BPP Law School, GDL and LPC, 2005–2008. University of Edinburgh, MA (Hons) History of Art and Italian, 2001–2005, Erasmus Scholar at the University of Udine.

Languages and beyond Italian and French, both advanced. Former Chair and mentor of the Old Westminster Lawyers' Society. Former national and international rower; cyclist and triathlete.