Bio
Peter is a Disputes Partner.
Peter advises across the full range of commercial and corporate disputes, including litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution.
He specialises in corporate transactions, director and shareholder issues, and commercial fraud – with particular expertise in disputes involving issues of alleged defective performance, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), products and services, delay, wrongful termination, exclusion and limitation, quantum of damages, and commission entitlement.
Peter works with large and mid-sized domestic and multi-national corporates, SMEs, not-for-profit organisations, and high-net-worth individuals across a range of sectors including the telecommunications, digital, life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, engineering, automotive, and financial services sectors.
With a particular focus on supporting clients to achieve their commercial aims by dispute avoidance and early-stage resolution, he frequently provides in-house training to clients. He is also ranked as a leading individual by Legal 500 and Chambers.
Examples of Peter’s work include:
- Acting for a leading software company in the successful defence of a claim against it for alleged outstanding licence and commission payments.
- Acting for the vendor warrantors of a company on a claim for alleged breach of warranty and underlying claim for alleged defective product and delay – successfully resisting the claim, and achieving walkaway settlement at mediation.
- Successfully defending a clinical research organisation against a claim brought by a sub-contractor which had carried out defective and out of specification research work.
- Acting for defendants in a minority shareholder unfair prejudice claim – successfully settling at mediation.
- Acting for hardware distributor which was the victim of an identity theft fraud and had made a substantial transfer of funds to the fraudsters’ account, obtaining a freezing injunction overnight to prevent the funds being transferred out of the jurisdiction, and achieving full recovery.
- Acting for an investor against an investee based in eastern Europe and uccessfully pursuing expedited ICC arbitration claim in parallel with successful defence of court proceedings brought by the investee in its own jurisdiction.