Anthony J. O’Driscoll
Anthony O’Driscoll represents multinational corporations, financial institutions, and investors in complex, high-stakes, and multijurisdictional disputes before the English High Court, including the Commercial Court. He has played a significant role in some of the most substantial aviation insurance recovery and civil fraud proceedings litigated in England.
His experience spans major multiparty insurance disputes involving novel questions of coverage, causation, and loss; high-profile post-acquisition and banking fraud litigation; and large-scale group actions raising complex questions regarding parent company liability and corporate accountability for overseas operations.
As a qualified solicitor-advocate with Higher Rights of Audience, Anthony brings a strategic, commercially focused approach to disputes involving significant financial and reputational exposure. He has an active pro bono practice that includes defending a charitable foundation in significant equality and discrimination proceedings, acting in litigation advancing LGBTQ+ rights, and supporting survivors of domestic abuse.
- Acting in substantial multiparty insurance recovery litigation before the English Commercial Court, involving complex issues of policy interpretation, coverage, causation, and loss in the aviation sector
- Acting in significant post-acquisition civil fraud proceedings involving allegations of financial misstatement and accounting impropriety, including complex factual and expert evidence
- Defending multibillion-dollar civil fraud claims connected with the collapse and winding up of an international financial institution, involving complex commercial arrangements and cross-border issues
- Defending corporate groups in large-scale litigation involving allegations of parent company liability for conduct associated with overseas operations, raising novel issues of jurisdiction, duty of care, and corporate accountability
- BPP Law School, 2017, Graduate Diploma in Legal Services, with distinction
- BPP Law School, 2016, Graduate Diploma in Law, with distinction
- University of Oxford, 2015, M.A. (Oxon), human sciences
- England & Wales
Higher Courts Advocacy Qualification (Civil), 2021
Recommended, Insurance Litigation: for Policyholders, The Legal 500 UK (2027)