Dr. Julian Roberts - Barrister

Dr Julian Roberts was called to the bar of England and Wales in 1986, and to the Bavarian Bar in 1994. His principal area of practice since 2008 has been the law of financial services, in relation to which he has been the leading advocate in many cases before both the English and the German courts. In Munich, he co-founded Rechtsanwälte Wolfsteiner Roberts & Partner. Julian, who is bilingual in English and German, is a graduate of Cambridge University, where he also took his PhD. He is the author of numerous articles in professional journals, both in Britain and in Germany, and is the author of the German textbook Rechtliche Behandlung von Derivaten (de Gruyter 2012: “The legal treatment of financial derivatives”).

Areas of Expertise

Financial Services

Regulatory

Corporate

Cases of note

Julian has been lead counsel in numerous financial services disputes in the superior courts of both England and Germany. Two representative appeal cases are OLG Munich 17 U 1276/13, and WW Properties v Natwest. The leading case of Ille v Deutsche Bank was decided after the German Federal Supreme Court accepted Julian's amicus brief.

Further details available on request.

Publications

• Ille revisited? The German Supreme Court’s difficulties with its own jurisprudence [2015] JIBFL

• Swaps, Betting and the Law[2014] JIBFL 929

• Should losses on payer swaps be recoverable? [2012] JIBFL 680.

• Rechtliche Behandlung von Derivaten, (Berlin: de Gruyter) (The book’s title means “The legal treatment of derivatives”) (2012).

• Financial derivatives: investments or bets? [2011] JIBFL 315.

• Regulating Complex Derivatives: Can the Opaque be made Transparent? [2011] JBR no 3. (2011-with Michael Dempster and Elena Medova).

• Commercial agents and compensation [1995] NLJ 453.

• German Philosophy: An Introduction (Polity Press, 2nd ed. 1992) (1988).