Oliver McGlashan

Oliver acts for clients on a range of complex commercial, product compliance and asset-tracing disputes, often involving high-stakes, multi-jurisdictional issues. He is a solicitor advocate and has particular experience advising in the life sciences, technology and manufacturing sectors, helping clients achieve their strategic aims, whether via litigation, arbitration, investigations or other resolution processes.

Oliver’s recent representative experience includes:

• Acting for IQVIA in its successful defence of a High Court claim brought by Cardiorentis in excess of $330 million in damages for alleged breaches of services provided in respect of a global clinical trial
• Acting for the government of the Turks and Caicos Islands in one of the largest civil recovery programmes in the world, involving a large number of cases brought for the recovery of assets lost to corruption
• Acting for an American manufacturing company in an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitration against a technology company
• Representing a core participant in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and related multiparty litigation and alternative dispute resolution
• Advising clients in high-profile investigations undertaken by regulatory authorities
• Acting for a UK pharmaceutical company in complex High Court proceedings regarding the conduct of a clinical trial, with the case settling just before trial with a substantial payment to the client along with its costs of pursuing the litigation
• Acting for a large domestic appliances manufacturer in proceedings in the Technology and Construction Court