Joseph Martin

Senior Associate

Tel: +44 (0)20 7148 7401

Email: joseph.martin@cyklaw.com

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“Joseph is a Senior Associate specialising in complex, high value commercial disputes. His work regularly takes on an international element, and he has experience across a wide spectrum of matters, including commercial contracts, share and asset purchases, contentious insolvency, corporate / boardroom litigation, civil fraud, asset recovery and enforcement”

Joseph’s practice has seen him work with a broad range of clients, from global corporates and financial institutions, to high net worth individuals / family offices operating predominantly (but not exclusively) within the technology, energy and insurance sectors.

Joseph has extensive experience of litigation in England and Wales, international arbitration (commercial and investor state), mediation and various other forms of alternative dispute resolution.

In addition to his core disputes practice, Joseph has also spent over 18 months seconded to businesses operating within the technology and retail sectors, managing external legal suppliers in high value and business critical litigation.

Background

Joseph joined Cooke, Young & Keidan from the London dispute resolution practice at DWF Law LLP, where he trained and thereafter practiced for seven years.  Prior to this, Joseph obtained an LLB (Hons) degree from Durham University, before completing the Legal Practice Course at the University of Law.

Professional groups

Joseph is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales and the Young Fraud Lawyers Association.

Recent articles

Cases of Note

  • Acting for an African bank in large-scale asset recovery and international enforcement work concerning fixed income investments totalling in excess of US$700m.

  • Acting for a HNWI defending the enforcement of a c.£20m BVI judgment, with the enforcement principally concerning a charging order over high value London property.

  • Acting for a property investor defending the enforcement of a c.£30m U.A.E judgment (and worldwide freezing order), relating to the alleged purchase of plots in the “World Islands” artificial archipelago in Dubai.

  • Acting for two entrepreneurs defending a c.£30m claim (and worldwide freezing order) concerning the alleged sale of several businesses to Wirecard AG.

  • Acting for an investment bank as part of global efforts to enforce a €2.6m debt arising out of a personal guarantee underpinning a loan by a central-european bank to the debtor’s finance company.

  • Advising the owners and operators of a power plant in potential arbitral proceedings against a utility provider, seeking the recovery of an accumulated debt of over US$250m.

  • Acting for an IT consultancy in proceedings seeking the recovery of an eight figure (£) contractual ‘success fee’, owed in respect of the assessment and reduction of a customer’s under licensing exposure to a large software provider.

  • Acting for a global business in litigation arising from wrongly terminated, multi-million (£) FX option contracts.