Experience

Recent experience includes:

• Advising, as local expert, the Turkish government in its claim against a Middle Eastern State, in a $100M ICC arbitration with Paris seat (pending)
• Representing an Iraqi EPC contractor in its LCIA London seated claim of c. $15M against a Chinese State owned oil company for breach of contract and wrongful abandonment of the project (Pending)
• Advising, as local expert, a Ukrainian company in its ICC claims against a Middle Eastern state owned oil company (pending).
• Advising the shareholders of a UK digital bank in their shareholder and breach of fiduciary duties litigation claims against directors, and individuals (High Court, England).
• Representing a major French multinational telecomms company in a $1BN ICC award enforcement matter against a Middle Eastern semi autonomous government and a PEP (member of the government) (pending)
• Representing, together with co-counsel, 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. Negotiating funding for the claim. (Pending)
• Advised the Union of Medical Associate Physicians, together with a media strategy company, on legal, media and communications strategy in their dispute against a doctor group within the NHS. The matter involves NHS trusts and the RCGP, inter alios. (Pending).
• Advised the founder of a 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).
• 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.
• 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 Chamber of Commerce (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.
• Advised one of the two major global auction houses, together with Iraqi co counsel, on the legalities for the export and import of Iraqi art antiquities for commercial gain at auction (2022).
• 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.