Nic is a Senior Associate in the Financial Services Disputes and Contentious Regulatory practice.
Nic is a Senior Associate with experience in commercial disputes, arbitration, contentious regulatory matters and internal investigations.
Nic has specific experience in relation to disputes involving the financial services sector and group actions. Nic has spent time on secondment to our Singapore office, a major European airline, a leading UK-based bank and a global investment and wholesale bank.
Nic is a member (and ex Co-Chair) of the firm's Multiculturalism Committee Network and involved in the firm's Diversity and Inclusion initiatives.
Nic has been ranked as a Rising Star/Leading Associate/Key Lawyer in the Banking Litigation practice by Legal 500 for 2023-2025.
Background
Nic graduated summa cum laude from Nazareth College with a Bachelor of Arts in History and completed the GDL and LPC at BPP University.
Nic is admitted to practise in England and Wales.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- a European investment bank in relation to a US$1.4 billion arbitration claim threatened against it by a prominent Saudi businessman in connection with a finance joint venture business
- an international wholesale bank in connection with its successful defence of a group claim involving several hundred claimants which relates to the activities of its former commercial banking business in the UK
- a commercial bank on its successful defence of a c.£100m claim involving allegations of breach of good faith, economic duress and misrepresentation, as part of which the bank was awarded indemnity costs and a substantial payment on account of costs
- a leading UK-based bank on a portfolio of large scale banking disputes, including a £400 million claim involving allegations of fraud
- an international foreign exchange broker on its defence of a c.£50m group claim brought by investors in a foreign exchange trading scheme involving allegations of dishonest assistance and knowing receipt which has involved parallel proceedings in the Federal Court in Colorado
- a mortgage servicing company on its defence of a potential group claim reported to involve over 15,000 claimants and be worth over £800 million and other related proceedings
- an international wholesale and trade finance bank in connection with its claim to recover approximately US$50 million against a defaulting borrower which has involved proceedings in the Eastern Caribbean and contemplated proceedings in other jurisdictions
- a global commercial and wholesale bank on its defence of a claim for breach of mandate for failing to pay distributions under various investment agreements, involving a novel challenge to the basis on which a suspicious activity report was filed
- a group of hedge funds in their challenge to the Court sanction of a scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006 involving a satellite communications business
- a global commercial and wholesale bank on various internal investigations arising from its private wealth business and associated regulatory production order requests
- a leading UK-based bank in relation to a voluntary remediation exercise and associated consequential loss review programme
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