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.”
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.
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)