Toby Gibson

Practice Areas

Toby has handled a wide variety of contentious commercial and financial matters. His areas of expertise include: financial services and derivatives litigation, shareholder disputes, contentious trusts and probate matters, professional negligence and litigating over the terms of numerous commercial contracts (for example, distribution, share sale, asset purchase and option agreements). He has wide experience in arbitration, having represented ING Bank N.V. over the last four years in a series of LMAA arbitrations arising from the collapse of the OW Bunker business.

He maintains his top tier ranking in Chambers for the twelfth year running and is “Very effective and to the point, he has in-depth knowledge..quick to respond, and he does so with detailed options and analysis”; is said to be “steely, resilient and very measured” “very intellectually engaged and gets to the bottom of difficult points of law”. "he is as good as any litigator outside the city and better than many in the city."

The Legal 500 praises the “outstanding and personal service” of the practice whose “business acumen is second to none”. Toby has been ranked as a Hall of Fame badge holder for a number of years, with a “first class mind and commercial and practical approach”. He is “brilliant with clients, pragmatic and sensible” “(2020), “thorough and determined”, “considerate and diligent”.