John-Patrick ASIMAKIS

John-Patrick was called to the English Bar in 2023 and has a broad commercial practice in line with Chambers’ profile. He has experience in a wide range of practice areas including arbitration, banking, civil fraud, conflict of laws, injunction applications and public international law.

Prior to coming to the English Bar, John-Patrick qualified as a solicitor in Australia in 2020 and worked for 18 months as a judicial assistant at the New South Wales Court of Appeal. In that role, he was involved in the hearing of several high-profile appeals and assisted with the preparation and drafting of over 80 substantive judgments. He was previously a Lecturer in Law (teaching Contracts) at the University of Oxford and a Sessional Academic at the University of Sydney Law School. He is an editor and contributor to two leading textbooks and has published widely on the law, including on the law of arbitration.

John-Patrick graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours and the University Medal for placing top of his class, along with over 25 other university prizes and scholarships. As an undergraduate, he undertook academic exchanges to St Xavier’s College, Mumbai and Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, where he completed the programme in International and Comparative Business Law. He subsequently read for the postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford, graduating with Distinction overall and obtaining distinctions in all modules.

In addition to his native English, John-Patrick speaks French, German and Spanish, and is also proficient in Italian.