Siân Whitby represents clients in complex commercial disputes.

Siân helps clients navigate and resolve: 

  • Contractual disputes
  • Product and supply-related disputes
  • Shareholder actions
  • Wrongful dismissal claims
  • Competition litigation, including follow-on damages claims

Siân advises clients based across the globe (in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the US) on disputes with a UK nexus. Siân is experienced in acting in the High Courts of England and Wales, including in the Chancery Division, the Commercial Court, the Technology and Construction Court, the Media and Communications List, and in the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

Siân has delivered training on managing greenwashing litigation risk and she has participated in innovation initiatives to explore how AI may be deployed as a useful tool in litigation.

Siân’s experience includes acting for:

Contractual Disputes 

  • A COVID-19 test manufacturer in a claim brought by the UK government regarding the performance of a testing product*
  • A UK-based Fintech company in relation to the quantum of a success fee due under a consultancy agreement*
  • A luxury hotel chain regarding a supplier’s failure to deliver goods*

Shareholder Disputes

  • The subject company in a claim brought by its majority shareholder and former CEO for unfair prejudice and wrongful dismissal*

Competition Litigation

  • An OEM truck manufacturer, defending follow-on damages claims brought by UK claimants after an EU competition infringement decision* 

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)

Education

  • Legal Practice Course (Distinction), BPP Law School, Holborn, 2019
  • Graduate Diploma in Law (Commendation), BPP Law School, Waterloo, 2018
  • BA in History, Clare College, University of Cambridge, 2017