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Paul Mesquitta

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Paul Mesquitta represents clients in complex commercial litigation, international arbitration, and privacy matters across a range of industries including financial services, aviation, and engineering. Paul is part of the firm’s global insurance recovery practice, advising on coverage disputes across various industries (with a particular focus on the aviation industry) and across multiple lines of insurance, including casualty, directors and officers, contractors all risk, and cyber. The Legal 500 calls Paul “a top-notch commercial litigator” who “goes up against magic circle firms and comes out on top. A heavyweight in the making.”

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Paul Mesquitta is a great arbitration practitioner. He has very high standards of drafting and advocacy – an accomplished team leader.
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a top-notch commercial litigator.
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particularly good at insurance related disputes.
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Goes up against magic circle firms and comes out on top. A heavyweight in the making.
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has great foresight and planning so that the whole course of the case is carefully choreographed.
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has an exceptionally acute mind.
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fastidious and at ease in dealing with complex financial disputes.
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Paul has represented clients in commercial litigation arising out of some of the most high-profile issues in recent years, including acting for aviation lessor policyholders in relation to multibillion-dollar claims amid the Ukraine conflict, and investment funds in relation to several securities litigation claims under Section 90A of the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

  • Provided coverage advice on cyber insurance policies
  • Representing a client in the insurance industry in respect of investigations and claims arising from data misuse and privacy breaches involving ICO and FCA notifications, together with High Court litigation involving a £25m breach of warranty and fraud claim arising from a sale and purchase agreement
  • Investment funds in a multimillion dollar High Court claim under s.90A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
  • A large European bank in an LCIA arbitration against a number of borrowers and guarantors for breach of a long-term facility agreement
  • A large US defence manufacturer in an LCIA arbitration against a counter-party for breach of contract
  • Various London market Reinsurers in connection with a coverage dispute arising from a CAR policy, where the relevant construction was taking place in Kuwait
  • A Kazakh oil services company in connection with a coverage dispute with its London market insurer arising from its D&O policy
  • College of Law, England, 2010, LPC, With Distinction
  • University of East Anglia, England, 2008, LLB (Hons), Law
  • England & Wales (Solicitor)

Recommended, Dispute Resolution: Commercial Litigation: Premium, The Legal 500 UK (2022–2025)

Recommended, Dispute Resolution: Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail, The Legal 500 UK (2021, 2023–2025)

Recommended, Risk Advisory: Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime (Advice to Corporates), The Legal 500 UK (2024, 2025)

Recommended, Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration, The Legal 500 UK (2023, 2024)

Recommended, Corporate and Commercial: Financial Services: Contentious, The Legal 500 UK (2024)

Recommended, Dispute Resolution: Commercial Litigation, London, The Legal 500 UK (2019, 2020)

Member, Practice Group of the Year, Insurance, Law360 (2020)