Experience
Owen is a Senior Associate at Baker & Partners, with a particular focus on insolvency, fraud and commercial disputes.
Owen joined Baker & Partners in September 2025, having trained at a Magic Circle firm and previously worked as a consultant solicitor for an English firm. He specialises in cross-border commercial disputes, insolvency, fraud and recovery matters and acts for clients in various sectors from banking to retail.
Past experience:
- Owen assisted with the recognition of the BVI insolvency of Alsen Chance Holdings Limited in England and Wales, which related to the 1MDB scandal. Owen has also advised clients on Jersey and Cayman Islands disputes.
- Advised two former Credit Suisse bankers in The Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse International and others [2024] EWHC 1957 (Comm), relating to the $2 billion “tuna bonds” scandal. The claims against Owen’s clients settled.
- Prepared evidence, submissions and inter-partes correspondence in relation to the following matters in The Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse International and others: (i) an assertion of a privilege against self-incrimination [2022] EWHC 3094 (Comm); (ii) an application to strike-out the Republic of Mozambique’s case due to its disclosure failings [2023] EWHC 1650 (Comm) and (iii) an application to strike out the Privinvest Defendants’ Part 20 claims against Owen’s clients [2023] EWHC 2942 (Comm).
- Owen has extensive experience of disclosure, having overseen a team of document reviewers in the “tuna bonds” litigation.
- As a newly-qualified solicitor, Owen cut his teeth advising on contingency planning for the failure of Thomas Cook and acting for the former directors of Thomas Cook in the subsequent UK parliamentary inquiry.
Qualifications
Owen studied History at King’s College London before completing the Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course at BPP Law School.
He qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in September 2019.