Ed Davis is a leading commercial litigator with more than 20 years of experience resolving a wide range of domestic and cross-border disputes. His practice focuses on complex and high value litigation and investigations, with a focus on financial services disputes covering a variety of markets and products, including derivatives, asset backed securities, swaps, and bond issues.
Ed represents financial institutions, funds, corporations, commodities traders, accountants, trustees, and individuals.
Clients turn to Ed for guidance on the full range of commercial disputes including fraud and injunctions, commercial contract disputes, and joint venture and shareholder disputes. Ed also advises on international and cross-border litigation strategies and manages litigation in different jurisdictions.
Ed also advises clients in connection with various commodities and trade finance matters and regulatory issues.
In addition to acting in High Court disputes, Ed represents clients in contentious insolvency matters and in international arbitrations.
Edward has a keen mind, great strategic thinking and technical skills. He is the type of lawyer you want on your side in complex matters; He is scarily clever and cuts through the matter very easily.
Chambers Client Feedback, Banking Litigation, 2024
Representative Matters
- Acted for the successful claimant in a US $35 million Commercial Court claim arising out of a warehouse receipt fraud.
- Acted for a global telecommunications company in a high value claim for breach of tax and other warranties in connection with the purchase of another telecommunications business.
- Represented a bank defending a US $55 million Commercial Court claim brought by a Swiss trader relating to the assignment of an agreement for the sale and purchase of a cargo of oil.
- Acted in a high value dispute between two banks regarding the interpretation of three credit default swaps referencing public utility boards.
- Acting for a corporate services provider in claims alleging the misappropriation and laundering of US $1.1 billion of loans.
- Represented a defendant commodities trader in a High Court claim alleging fraud in relation to various titanium traders.
- Advised a European bank in connection with its more than £500 million exposure to the Madoff fraud, including coordinating lawyers and proceedings in different jurisdictions and advising the bank on its world-wide litigation and recovery strategy.
Credentials
Service / Recognition
Overview
Ed Davis is a leading commercial litigator with more than 20 years of experience resolving a wide range of domestic and cross-border disputes. His practice focuses on complex and high value litigation and investigations, with a focus on financial services disputes covering a variety of markets and products, including derivatives, asset backed securities, swaps, and bond issues.
Ed represents financial institutions, funds, corporations, commodities traders, accountants, trustees, and individuals.
Clients turn to Ed for guidance on the full range of commercial disputes including fraud and injunctions, commercial contract disputes, and joint venture and shareholder disputes. Ed also advises on international and cross-border litigation strategies and manages litigation in different jurisdictions.
Ed also advises clients in connection with various commodities and trade finance matters and regulatory issues.
In addition to acting in High Court disputes, Ed represents clients in contentious insolvency matters and in international arbitrations.
Edward has a keen mind, great strategic thinking and technical skills. He is the type of lawyer you want on your side in complex matters; He is scarily clever and cuts through the matter very easily.
Chambers Client Feedback, Banking Litigation, 2024
Representative Matters
- Acted for the successful claimant in a US $35 million Commercial Court claim arising out of a warehouse receipt fraud.
- Acted for a global telecommunications company in a high value claim for breach of tax and other warranties in connection with the purchase of another telecommunications business.
- Represented a bank defending a US $55 million Commercial Court claim brought by a Swiss trader relating to the assignment of an agreement for the sale and purchase of a cargo of oil.
- Acted in a high value dispute between two banks regarding the interpretation of three credit default swaps referencing public utility boards.
- Acting for a corporate services provider in claims alleging the misappropriation and laundering of US $1.1 billion of loans.
- Represented a defendant commodities trader in a High Court claim alleging fraud in relation to various titanium traders.
- Advised a European bank in connection with its more than £500 million exposure to the Madoff fraud, including coordinating lawyers and proceedings in different jurisdictions and advising the bank on its world-wide litigation and recovery strategy.
Credentials
Admissions
- England and Wales
Education
- BPP University Law School, 1997
- University of Oxford, 1996
Service / Recognition
Awards
- Pro Bono Recognition List, England & Wales, 2026
- Chambers UK, Leading Individual: Banking Litigation 2024, 2023
- Legal 500 UK, Leading individual: Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail 2024