Joel Seager joined Fladgate as a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Practice. Seager has over 15 years’ experience acting on a wide range of complex, high-value international and domestic disputes in both court and arbitration proceedings. His appointment further consolidates Fladgate’s reputation as a highly ranked mid-market commercial disputes firm.
Seager’s practice incorporates a broad range of disputes with a focus on commercial litigation including partnership disputes, professional negligence, contentious insolvency, and civil fraud. He has experience of handling cases involving freezing injunctions, Norwich Pharmacal orders and other forms of interim relief. Seager has also advised and represented clients in international arbitration under the LCIA, GAFTA and UNCITRAL arbitration rules, as well as experience advising on ICSID arbitrations. Seager’s many clients include entrepreneurs, high-net worth individuals, energy companies, and clients in the finance, private equity and hotel sectors.
His arrival along with that of 7 other Partners in the firm over the last 12 months supports the progress of Fladgate’s 3 year business strategy. The firm’s focus is on accelerating its successful model of providing a highly rated* personal, agile and enterprising service to some of the world’s leading and fastest growing businesses and ‘trend initiator’ brands as well as UHNWI’s and their advisors.
Commenting on the appointment, Joel Seager said, “I have been impressed with Fladgate’s disputes platform and ambition to drive forward contentious work as a growth area of the firm. I look forward to supporting Fladgate’s focus on personal relationships delivering agile, enterprising solutions to their clients. Fladgate has a clarity of vision and strength of purpose which means it is an exciting time to be joining the firm and the disputes team.”
Grant Gordon, Executive Partner at Fladgate, added, “Joel’s arrival is great news for the development of the firm. Joel brings further experience in both litigation and international arbitration to our highly rated disputes team. We are building out a breadth of services for business and private clients that have fast moving, complex challenges. Joel is the third partner to join us in contentious space since January, adding further weight to that practice in its breadth and depth.”