Legal professional qualifications

• Legal Practice Course (2016)
• Graduate Diploma in Law (2014), Gold Award

Academic qualifications

Durham University

• MA in English Literature (2013) - Distinction, Floreat Scholarship
• BA in English Literature (2012) - First Class Honours, Baxter Prize

• Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales

• Assisting an NOC in LCIA arbitration for disputed variation claims exceeding US$80m brought by a drilling contractor for a drilling campaign offshore West Africa.
• Assisting an IOC in LCIA arbitration for post M&A breach of warranty and indemnity claims exceeding US$130m following the sale of its onshore business in a West African state.
• Successfully representing a dual-listed ‎gold mining company and its subsidiary in a multi-million dollar London seated arbitration claim brought against it by its earthworks and civils contractor in connection with a gold mine in West Africa. The mine owner was also awarded a substantial counterclaim and its legal costs.
• Assisting a Middle Eastern power company in relation to a claim against a national electricity and water company.
• Assisting an operator of an onshore licence with a claim brought in the Technology and Construction Court (TCC) for unpaid invoices against one of the JOA partners.
• Advising a joint venture between Urbaser and Balfour Beatty on a claim brought in the TCC by Essex County Council under a PFI contract for the construction and operation of a mechanical and biological waste treatment plant in Essex which produces solid recovered fuel for energy generation.
• Acting for an IOC in High Court litigation proceedings in relation to the illegal tapping of UK oil pipelines. Advocated at a successful application hearing for a charging order over the defendant's property.
• Advising an NOC in relation to its offshore subsidiaries and vessels.
• Acting for a UK steel producer in a potential claim against its gas supplier for failure to supply gas.

• Lexology - Getting the Deal Through, Introduction and UK Chapter 2020, 2021
• Case Updater: PCP v Barclays Bank Plc, November 2020 - https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/inside-disputes-and-investigations/blog/case-updater-pcp-v-barclays-waiver-of-privilege
• Case Updater: Apache North Sea Limited v INEOS FPS Limited, September 2020 - https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/2613056a/case-updater-apache-north-sea-limited-v-ineos-fps-limited
• Third-party funding in investor-state arbitration, July 2018 - https://www.insideafricalaw.com/blog/third-party-funding-in-investor-state-arbitration
• To seat or not to seat? That was the question in Atlas Power decision, June 2018 - http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/knowledge/publications/168720/to-seat-or-not-to-seat-that-was-the-question-in-atlas-power-decision
• West Tankers stays on course in recent anti-suit decision, December 2018 - http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/knowledge/publications/171645/west-tankers-stays-on-course-in-recent-anti-suit-decision