Joanna Page
Partner
London
Joanna Page
Partner
London
Contact details
Joanna is a seasoned litigator in corporate and commercial disputes, both domestic and international. She is also highly rated for her experience in international arbitration. She handles claims through a complete range of different dispute mechanisms. She has experience of ICC, LCIA and ad hoc arbitrations and has also litigated extensively in the English Commercial Court and in the Chancery Division.
Joanna speaks regularly in the UK, in Europe and elsewhere on English law and particularly English insurance law. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a CEDR Accredited Mediator. She is also Chair of CEDR. Joanna has higher rights of audience (Civil). She supervises in Contract Law and also Company Law at Cambridge University.
Chambers UK 2022 comments on Joanna include "She is very good at seeing things from the client's point of view and is conscious of the need for teamwork and coordination. She runs a very tight ship and is a commercial and realistic lawyer." "Joanna has fantastic case handling skills and judgement."
Legal 500 UK 2022 describes Joanna as "a highly experienced, calm and effective team leader." and "extremely sensible and strategically aware."
Chambers UK 2023 states that Joanna is "very experienced and hard-working." and Legal 500 UK 2023 says "Joanna Page is exceptional".
In 2013 she was appointed by the Law Society of England & Wales as their lead expert on an EU Expert Group examining whether differences in insurance law across the EU present obstacles to trade.
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
Related articles
Publications: 30 November 2022
The Insurance Disputes Law Review – Edition 5
The fifth edition of the Insurance Disputes Law Review has been released.
Publications: 15 July 2022
Publications: 06 July 2022
Experience highlights
Advising a global fund manager on claims of mismanagement of fixed income funds, acting in arbitration and handling related regulatory aspects; also securing cover under relevant insurance policies.
Advising a multinational seeking recovery of business losses in a LCIA arbitration under a complex alternative risk structure so as to recover losses relating to a large portfolio of aircraft.
Advising a global bank on its recoveries under professional indemnity insurance relating to claims in the U.S. following insolvency of one its major customers; this involved coordination of U.S. litigation, assisting in response to an SEC investigation and liaison and recovery from insurers.
Advising a global bank in upholding and enforcing interest rate swaps with a number of Italian local authorities, including the important decision of Deutsche Bank v Comune di Savona.
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
Pro-bono experience
- 2009-2018 Trustee for Governors for Schools (a charity which seeks to assist schools find individuals with business skills to become school governors).
- 2017 to date Trustee appointed to CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution) which has pioneered mediation as a mechanism for resolving disputes in the UK. Interim Chair of CEDR since 2019.
- Leads the firm’s work in providing representation at a number of pro bono clinics, such as Toynbee Hall, Battersea Legal Advice Clinic.
- Has led the firm’s multi jurisdiction response in a number of important pro bono research projects (eg as to the use of evidence obtaining by torture (prepared for Fair Trials International and Redress).
Other noteworthy experience:
Advising:
- GBP130m: Acting for a multinational energy company on a claims against its insurers following damage to its processing plant in the Gulf Region.
- Acting for a multinational energy company in relation to an investigation of whether trades undertaken by one of its Asian subsidiaries could have breached EU and US sanctions; handling related English Commercial Court litigation between the counterparties.
- Acting for a US manufacturer in an investigation as to whether there had been anticompetitive behaviour in certain parts of its global network.
- Acting for an AIM listed company in relation to English Commercial Court litigation following a fraud perpetrated by a major shareholder and their nominee directors which had siphoned off funds to other parts of the group.
- USD 2 billion: Acting for a global mining company in a dispute with a joint venture partner including ICC arbitration and expert determination procedures.
- USD150m: Acting for a mining company in recovering under delayed start up insurance following technical difficulties in getting a new processing plant up and running; this involved ad hoc arbitration in London.
- USD100m: Acting for a methanol plant in challenging issue of legal proceedings in Texas and securing anti-suit injunction; securing English jurisdiction for the dispute.
- EUR50m: Acting for a global telecoms manufacturer in securing insurance cover in LCIA arbitration under bespoke performance bond cover following losses in emerging markets.
Recognition
...a calm, measured and thoughtful figure.
Chambers UK 2019
...great practical judgement and is hugely experienced.
Chambers UK 2018
go-to in the market
Chambers UK 2018
“formidable opponent”
Published work
Leads A&O’s Annual Director Liability Survey which is conducted in conjuction with Willis Towers Watson.
Editor, The Insurance Disputes Law Review.
