Recent experience

Recent experience includes:

Representing a Kurdish HFO-powered power plant operator against the Kurdish Regional Government in a $50M wrongful termination dispute under Iraqi law (ICC arbitration) with London seat. Successfully defeated a bifurcation application by the Respondent. (Pending).
Representing, together with a Dutch law office, a group of consumers in the Netherlands in their class action claim against a major Dutch bank. Successfully obtained funding for the claim. (Pending)
Advising the Union of Medical Associate Physicians, together with a media strategy company, on legal, media and communications strategy in their dispute against alleged criminals (a doctor group) within the NHS. The matter involves NHS trusts and the RCGP, inter alios. (Pending).
Represented a globally reputed luxury Swiss watchmaker in its dispute (including IP and website claims) against its joint venture partner. Achieved a full settlement.
Representing an investor in a $500M+ dispute regarding mistreatment of his tourism and hotel investment against a North African government in an ad hoc PCA arbitration under a BIT (Geneva seat) (Pending).
Advising the Turkish subsidiary of a strategic Russian steel-making multinational company on European sanctions and assisting in the recovery of multiple debts owed by European customers (Swiss law). (Pending).
Representing Russian and Ukrainian investors in a EUR 20M agribusiness investment dispute against the Slovak Republic at ICSID under a Bilateral Investment Treaty (pending).
Represented a Dubai entrepreneur on a AED 1M shareholder dispute with a FinTech company in the DIFC Courts. Successfully obtained a settlement.
Represented the Republic of Iraq in an ICSID arbitration brought by a German company in the power plant sector (value $1 billion). Successfully obtained dismissal (by summary judgment) of all the investors’ claims.
Represented a Cypriot bank in ICSID (bilateral investment treaty) arbitration against Greece under its 2011 sovereign debt restructuring (value $3 billion). Successful for the claimant on the merits in proceedings that concluded in 2018.
Advised Italian investors in preparing a claim for breach of an investment treaty against Tanzania (UNCITRAL) regarding a terminated biofuels project of value $60-100 million. The case was discontinued but a settlement proposal was achieved.
Successfully represented a Turkish hotel owner in $20 million mismanagement claim against a five-star hotel chain (ICC, London) and obtained a result that exceeded the initial quantum amount claimed.
Represented the national oil company of Kazakhstan in its defence of a $10 million claim for breach of a guarantee connected to a loan facility given to its subsidiary, in LCIA arbitration proceedings. The claim was brought by a major European lending institution. A settlement proposal was secured.
Represented various state-owned entities in defending construction claims under International Criminal Court (ICC), Abu Dhabi Commercial Conciliation and Arbitration Centre (ADCACC) and Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) rules when part of a small team working in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Successful in all cases.
Represented a German art collector in a claim in English High Court against a gallery for theft of a Warhol work, using the English tort of conversion. Achieved a full settlement plus partial costs reimbursement.
Represented an English antiques collector in his English court claim against an auction house for the misattribution of an 18th century mirror. Achieved a full settlement.
Represented a Malaysian client (and politically exposed person (PEP)) in a claim against a U.K. individual for fraudulent misrepresentation valued at $18.5 million. Obtained and retained a worldwide freezing order against the defendant.