David Heaton

Practice Areas

David practises in commercial law, public law, international arbitration, and competition law. He has appeared in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court and County Court, as well as the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, and has assisted leading counsel before the Grand Court and Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands. He has worked on matters in sectors including banking and financial services (including funds management, cryptocurrencies and FX trading), energy and resources (including oil and gas and derivatives trading), telecommunications, shipping, online services, software and information technology, transport and government.

David is regularly instructed in heavyweight commercial litigation and arbitration (ICC, LCIA, ICSID, UNCITRAL and LMAA rules), as a member of large teams. He has been led by silks within and outside Brick Court, and has appeared unled in the Commercial Court and arbitral hearings. David’s commercial litigation experience includes claims for breach of contract, fiduciary duty and trust (including tracing), civil fraud and conspiracy, bribery, conversion, breach of confidence, fraudulent insurance claims, insolvency, agency, breaches of competition law and challenges to validity of corporate actions. He has acted in jurisdiction challenges, applications for interim and ex parte injunctions, Bankers Trust orders and State/investor and other international arbitrations.