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Guy Wilkes
Associate
Osborne Clarke
One London Wall
London
EC2Y 5EB
UK
t +44 20 71057324

Guy is a senior member of Osborne Clarke's dispute resolution group, specialising in commercial and banking litigation.

He has advised on a wide range of complex commercial disputes. He has particular experience of multi-jurisdictional fraud and breach of trust claims such as those involving fraudulent investment schemes, bribery and secret commissions, commodities fraud, false accounting and procurement fraud. Guy's work regularly involves cross border asset tracing, including obtaining and advising on world-wide freezing injunctions, search orders and committal orders.

Guy also has substantial experience of cross-border litigation involving Sovereign States often involving difficult jurisdictional issues. Other cases on which he has advised include complex contractual disputes, insurance and insolvency related matters and arbitration proceedings.

Guy has been instructed in a number of important cases heard in the High Court in London in recent years including the following:

  • Trustor v Smallbone (£40 million fraud - a leading case on piercing the corporate veil);
  • Shalson v Russo - (£20 million fraud - included obtaining a committal order for maximum 2 years imprisonment against the main defendant);
  • Walker v Republic of Congo (successfully enforcing against a sham company set up by the Republic);
  • Donegal v Republic of Zambia (obtaining freezing order against the Republic followed by lengthy jurisdiction challenge).

Guy qualified in 1997 at Allen & Overy where he subsequently spent 9 years in the litigation department prior to joining Osborne Clarke in 2006.

Guy is a licensed solicitor-advocate with rights of audience in all civil courts and regularly conducts advocacy in the High Court. He is frequently asked to speak at and chair conferences on topics related to fraud, commercial and trust litigation and is a member of the Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association and the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists.

specialisms

Banking disputes|
Commercial litigation|
Cross-border disputes|
Dispute resolution|
Litigation|


language(s)

English|
 
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