Recent experience

Recent experience includes:

Representing a Dubai individual on a AED 1M shareholder dispute with a FinTech company in the DIFC Courts.
Representing the Republic of Iraq in an ICSID arbitration brought by a German company in the power plant sector (value $1 billion).
Represented a Cypriot bank in ICSID (bilateral investment treaty) arbitration against Greece under its 2011 sovereign debt restructuring (value $3 billion). Partially 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 an East African state (UNCITRAL rules) regarding a terminated biofuels project of value $60-100 million.
Represented a Turkish hotel owner in $11 million mismanagement claim against a five-star hotel chain (ICC, London).
Serving as co-counsel with a Turkish firm to advise Turkish subcontractors in the preparation of their ICC claim ($20 million) against a U.S. company for wrongful termination and calling on a performance bond in a construction dispute in Guinea.
Represented the national oil company of an Eastern European state 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.
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.