Description text goes hereTwenty-five years of dispute resolution at every level — negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation up to the Court of Appeal, three supreme courts and the Privy Council.

A $240m trust dispute, one of the largest ever heard in Jersey, led for the bank through the Privy Council and six years of enforcement across nine jurisdictions — with a worldwide search for assets that turned up Impressionist paintings in vaults in Miami and Geneva. Then twelve months of negotiation with the family, led personally, that settled all 36 strands.

A recovery of up to $1.5bn from a Gulf family fraud, through litigation and arbitration across multiple jurisdictions; an arbitration for a syndicate of banks against a Russian oligarch's company; a $1.4bn claim struck out as a fraud; seven years on one of the leading mis-selling cases in English litigation; commercial contract, joint venture, IT, IP and software disputes.

Settled by mediation or direct negotiation: a multi-million euro mis-selling claim by a European housing authority; a derivatives action by a European regional government; a claim by secondary investors in an Islamic bond, resolved before the Court of Appeal ruling.

Built the bank's UK disputes function, arriving just before Lehman Bros collapsed, and led through the ensuing financial crisis.

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Fourteen years running multi-jurisdictional investigations for a global bank — into individuals' conduct, and into systems and controls across the organisation.

UK lead on the global LIBOR, FX, CDS and ISDAFIX investigations, working with teams across jurisdictions and with the FCA, DoJ, CFTC and Fed. The LIBOR investigation, led by the UK regulator, ended with no sanction; the CDS case went to full trial before the EU Competition Commission and ended in acquittal.

In senior legal leadership when the bank paid $8.9bn to the US authorities — the largest criminal penalty in US history at the time.

Headed a long-running SFO criminal investigation into alleged money-laundering breaches — extensive document review, numerous witness interviews — that ended without charge, and the FCA's follow-on inquiry, which ended without action.

A bank-wide inquiry, under the home regulator, into a whistleblower's allegations against the UK compliance function; whistleblowing investigations into AML reporting and into front-office controls, with allegations being leaked to the press as the work went on.

Ran an independent investigation into a sensitive parental complaint at an independent school, appointed by the chair of governors.

Chaired separate disciplinary panels for a national sports governing body — one involving a leading Olympic coach, one an Olympic programme athlete.

Sat on a global bank's disciplinary panels for employees facing misconduct or appealing redundancy, and as a member of its Whistleblowing Committee oversaw every report for the UK.

Handled: a serial whistleblower's allegations being leaked to the press and reported to the regulator mid-investigation; a confession of historical fraud and theft from a client account; private investigatory work into a senior employee found to have an undisclosed conviction; recommendations for disciplinary action against 15 traders involved in a global industry investigation.

Ten years at the SDT chairing panels and deciding sanctions for professional misconduct, including strike-offs.