Overview
Joanne has over 12 years of experience advising clients in international arbitration across a range of sectors, including energy, finance, shipping, construction, pharmaceuticals and post-M&A disputes. She has extensive experience acting in the most complex disputes under the rules of many arbitral institutions (including LCIA, ICC and SIAC) and in English Court proceedings in support of arbitration (including enforcement proceedings and challenges to arbitral awards).
Joanne also conducts advocacy and has substantial experience in public law matters including judicial review and advisory work. Joanne has previously undertaken secondments to the LCIA, the Premier League and to the Linklaters LAI teams in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Experience
Joanne’s recent matters include:
- Representing an international bank in an ICC arbitration in relation to thousands of post-M&A warranty and tax claims allegedly worth over US$59 billion, and in settling numerous related claims.
- Representing a national oil company in a high-profile ICC arbitration concerning pre-emption rights over an offshore oil field.
- Representing the Premier League in its proceedings against Everton FC for breaches of the Profitability and Sustainability Rules and advising on a variety of other issues.
- Representing the sellers of a gambling company in an LCIA arbitration on a post-M&A claim valued at US$1 billion.
- Representing an international company in an ICC arbitration seated in Geneva and valued at over $2 billion concerning a contract for Covid-19 vaccines.
- Representing a pharmaceutical company in a post-M&A ICC arbitration concerning an alleged breach of a best endeavours obligation.
- Representing an international oil trading company in two LCIA arbitrations relating to the sale and purchase of oil.
- Representing the Bank of New York Mellon in one of the first virtual trials in the Commercial Court in relation to the enforcement of a US$500m arbitral award (Republic of Kazakhstan & NBK v Stati Parties & ors [2020] EWHC 916).
- Representing a Pakistani energy producer in defending challenges to two arbitral awards in the Commercial Court under s.68 of the Arbitration Act 1996 (Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd v National Power Parks Management Company Private Ltd [2023] EWHC 316 Comm).
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