Profile

Joshua is a Partner in our international arbitration group and public international law practice in London. He has previously spent time in our Paris office.

Joshua specialises in international arbitration and cross-border litigation, with a focus on complex post-M&A and shareholder disputes, investor-State disputes (including tax disputes) and public international law. His work frequently centres on matters connected to Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Brazil and offshore jurisdictions.

Joshua has represented clients across a wide range of sectors, including oil and gas, mining and metals, tech and telecoms, life sciences, private capital and insurance/reinsurance. He has particular expertise in:

• investments in high-risk jurisdictions
• contractual disputes under share/asset purchase agreements, shareholder agreements and other high-value commercial contracts
• foreign torts
• tax disputes (including disputes relating to corporate income tax, CGT, transfer pricing and branch profits tax)
• the law of the sea (including sea-level rise and the arrest and detention of vessels)
• international organizations
• immunities under international law
• land and maritime boundary disputes
• anti-corruption laws, sanctions and international criminal law, and
• international humanitarian law and human rights, including in litigation before the European Court of Human Rights.

Prior to joining Freshfields, Joshua worked as a government lawyer in Australia providing legal advice to senior government officials on issues of international law and public law.

Joshua is a visiting lecturer on international law at King's College London (as part of the Geopolitics, Resources and Territory programme) and on commercial dispute resolution at Queen Mary University of London's executive education programme, run by the QMUL Centre for Commercial Law Studies.