He received his LL.B. from the University of Bristol and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He conducts research in the areas of securities settlement systems, corporate law, and commercial transactions. He has also served as a Research Assistant for the Bank of England's Financial Markets Law Committee working group analyzing the need for and nature of legislation relating to property interests in indirectly held investment securities, been consulted by the Law Commission of England and Wales with respect to its project on Property Interests in Intermediated Securities, and been consulted by the Government of Nova Scotia with respect to the implementation of its provincial securities transfer legislation.