Tayler Wright

Full Profile

Tayler Wright is an Associate in Clyde & Co's Middle East Dispute Resolution Group, based in the Dubai office, since April 2024.  He has extensive experience in technology, cybersecurity, joint venture and corporate disputes. 

Tayler's practice covers a broad range of commercial disputes, including contractual claims, negligence claims, joint venture disputes, shareholder disputes and claims against company directors for fraud and misconduct. Tayler also has experience in litigious and not litigious insolvency matters.  In New South Wales, Australia, Tayler led a team of lawyers at his previous firm, Baker McKenzie, in Australia's largest ever data breach class action.    

Tayler has also appeared as counsel in State and Federal Courts in Australia and has extensive trial litigation experience as well as in contentious insolvency work.

Experience

Prior to joing Clyde & Co

• Cybersecurity – Acted for the plaintiffs in a litigation funded class action against a health insurer relating to a data breach in October 2022 impacting 9.8 million customers.
• Technology – Acted for a cloud services provider defending breach of contract and negligence claims brought by a customer in connection with multiple service outages.  
• Joint Venture – Acted for a Korean based mining and steel making conglomerate in a joint venture dispute involving a business email compromise (BEC) cybersecurity incident.
• Corporations – Acted for a shareholder that commenced derivative proceedings on behalf a company against the company's directors and third party beneficiaries of several fraudulent transactions.
• Insolvency – Successfully acted for the administrators of a gold mining company in response to an application by a creditor to set aside a deed of company arrangement.
• Contract – Successfully acted for a vendor financier against borrowers in relation to a breach of the terms of an oral agreement for the repayment of the vendor finance. 
• Tort – Successfully acted for a private investor in a negligence claim brought against an aviation service provider with a catastrophic fire event that destroyed a jet plane.