Our people

Jake Minards-Tonge

Jake has forensically unpicked all the difficult economic / disclosure issues - Legal 500 2020

Legal Director, Dispute Resolution
Manchester

EXPERTISE

Jake is a Legal Director in the Commercial Disputes team, where he qualified in September 2016 after training with the firm. He has experience advising clients on regulatory investigations and a range of complex commercial disputes, including claims for breach of contract and applications for urgent injunctive relief.

Jake regularly advises on substantial multi-jurisdictional competition law disputes for both claimants and defendants, including both 'standalone' and 'follow-on' damages claims relating to anti-competitive agreements and abuse of dominance.

Experience

Representing the NKT group in the defence of three separate 'follow-on' damages claims in the English High Court (one of which was amongst The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2020), including challenges to the jurisdiction of the English courts.
Acting for the Office Depot group in two competition 'follow-on' damages claims, including the successful defence of a jurisdiction challenge in the English High Court and of related proceedings for declaratory relief in the Swedish courts which was appealed to the Swedish Supreme Court.
Advising Co-operative Group Limited in connection with its 2018 regulatory investigation by the Grocery Code Adjudicator.
Advising a Spanish hotel group on substantial breach of contract claim relating to a €93 million corporate transaction, including the successful defence of a challenge to the jurisdiction of the English courts.
Advising a FTSE100 airline group on an application for urgent injunctive relief, and its defence of a damages claim for breach of contract.
Representing Stansted Airport Limited in the successful defence of a 'standalone' competition damages claim for abuse of a dominant position, and separate judicial review proceedings.