Toby Starr

Practice Areas

Toby’s work includes financial markets and finance litigation, competition litigation and class actions and international arbitration, including particularly contract-based claims and defences in a range of sectors. He has extensive experience in cases involving complex damages issues and procedural issues under many systems of rules domestically and internationally, as well as in interim measures and enforcement. As a solicitor-advocate Toby has appeared in interim and final hearings in domestic and international arbitral and other tribunals and before the English High Court.

Career

Toby was a solicitor at Linklaters and Debevoise & Plimpton and founded Starr Legal in the City of London before joining HK in 2018.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

England & Wales

Work Highlights

Toby's representative matters include:

- Acting for the class representative in Ad Tech Collective Action LLP v Google.

- Acting for a large group of UK and Italian high street and online retailers in substantial, high-profile funded claims against Visa and MasterCard worth for the alleged overcharging of multilateral interchange fees in breach of competition law.

- Acting for UK food industry services business in extended litigation based on anti-compete and no-poach contract provisions, including obtaining interim injunctive relief and evidence as well as enforcement procedures.

- Acting for a high net-worth individual in complex multi-creditor litigation against European investor, including obtaining freezing injunction, specific performance order and carve-out in separate contested final charging order proceedings.

- Acting for, and appearing as advocate on behalf of, a Brazilian bank client against US bank in an English Commercial Court action concerning an ISDA derivatives contract.

- Acting for, and appearing as advocate on behalf of, an international consumer brand against a distributor in an English Commercial Court challenge on forum grounds.

- Appearing as advocate in an English High Court trial involving expectation damages.

- Appearing as lead advocate in an ad hoc arbitration in London over breach of an exclusive supply agreement.

- Acting for, and appearing as advocate on behalf of, a client in separate High Court and international arbitration matters against F1 teams, including emergency arbitration in London under Swiss Rules.

- Acting and appearing in a London arbitration challenge to a Nigerian distributor’s $350 million litigation.

- Advisory work on many board and senior executive terminations, contentious employment disputes and injunctions

Languages Spoken

English and basic German and Japanese.