The Lawyer Top 20 Cases 2024
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The Lawyer ‘s Top 20 Cases of 2024 have been released and feature two cases in which members of Atkin […]
9th Jan 2024
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Max has a busy practice which belies his year of call, acting at all stages of litigation, adjudication and arbitration. Max’s areas of practice include construction, engineering, professional negligence and energy, as well as general commercial and insolvency. Max is ranked as a Rising Star in Construction by The Legal 500.
As junior counsel, Max’s recent instructions include appearing in an international arbitration relating to a chemical plant (in which Max carried out some of the advocacy), acting in one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2022 (a multi-party TCC claim relating to a hospital), acting for two of the UK’s largest developers in disputes relating to cladding, and acting in a PFI dispute relating to street lighting. Other recent instructions include acting in two international arbitrations concerning airport and rail projects in the Middle East.
Max is regularly instructed as sole counsel. Recent instructions including appearing for his successful client against a leading silk in a Part 8 and adjudication enforcement hearing, and successfully representing Transport for London in a High Court strike out application relating to taxi licences.
Max placed 1st in the SCL Hudson Prize, has been published in the International Construction Law Review, and is co-editor of the TECBAR Review. Max ranked 1st in the country at law school, having graduated from Cambridge University with a starred double first.
