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

• Successfully represented 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.
• Acting for a Middle Eastern power company in relation to disputes being brought against a national electricity and water supplier. The disputes are in the process of being referred for expert determination under a power and water purchase agreement.
• Acting for a UK steel producer in a mediation being brought against its gas supplier for failure to supply gas.
• Acting for an energy major in ongoing High Court litigation proceedings against an individual for the illegal tapping of UK oil pipelines.
• Advising a national oil and gas group in Southern Africa in relation to its offshore subsidiaries and vessels.
• Advising on third party access to infrastructure disputes in the UKCS, including under the Energy Act 2011.

• 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