After obtaining law degrees at University College London and Queens' College, Cambridge, I qualified as an English Solicitor in 1987 and spent 20 years at Clifford Chance until 2007, specialising in the field of maritime, commodities and international trade from a dispute resolution, transactional and advisory perspective.

After a short time at Holman Fenwick Willan, I spent 7 years in the investment bank of JPMorgan Chase & Co between 2008 and 2015, as Managing Director and Assistant General Counsel. Over that time, I headed the Europe, Middle East and Africa legal team of the global JPMorgan commodities business, covering the international commercial business, including physical commodities and chartering, financial commodity derivatives and inventory finance.

In 2013, I started accepting arbitration appointments.

Areas of expertise encompass: contracts of carriage (charters, bills of lading, COAs); containerised and liner trade (e.g. VSAs); sale of goods and ships; oil pollution; general average; insurance; shipbuilding; inventory financing and trade finance; warehousing and storage; derivatives and hedging; commodity derivative regulatory regimes; commodities futures exchanges (e.g. LME, LIFFE); disposals and acquisitions of commodities businesses (shares and assets); and multi general commercial matters (e.g. demurrage etc.).

I am Member of the Baltic Exchange, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, FOSFA, London Court of International Arbitration and ISDA Arbitration Working Group.

I have been admitted to the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights.

I became a Full Member of the LMAA in 2015.