Tim heads our financial services group. He specialises in complex financial disputes and regulatory issues. Recent instructions include advising an investment bank on its legal and regulatory exposures under various structured credit transactions involving tens and hundreds of millions of dollars, a leading private equity house on a €360m dispute with lenders over acquisition financing for a stake in a European bank, and a syndicate providing over US$3 billion of senior facilities in a dispute over covenant compliance with the borrowers. He has also advised banks, asset managers and hedge funds on disputes and regulatory complaints arising from the issue and promotion of financial products, and on a variety of disputes concerning hedging transactions and speculative derivatives trading. He is recommended for banking litigation by Chambers & Partners, 2010.

Tim takes a keen interest in the work of the International Bar Association. He is an officer of the International Litigation Committee and a member of the editorial board of the IBA publication Dispute Resolution International.