Experience

• • Investors in an energy company in a potential claim against a State under the Energy Charter Treaty concerning the regulation of the electricity market.
  • An international energy company in an ICSID arbitration relating to its investments in Nigeria.
  • Banco Safra, one of the largest private banks in the Brazil, and holding companies within the Safra family’s multibillion-dollar financial services group, in five consolidated LCIA arbitrations and related proceedings in New York, Gibraltar, Brazil and Switzerland against Alberto Safra. The disputes concerned Alberto Safra’s challenge to family shareholdings as well as governance decisions related to the companies. The parties reached a global settlement of all disputes.
  • An engineering and commissioning contractor in a multibillion dollar ICC arbitration seated in Singapore concerning the disputed termination of an EPC subcontract to build and commission a combined-cycle power plant at an Australian LNG facility.
  • An African company in a potential arbitration against a competitor for alleged breach of an NDA and the use of confidential information in the development of a health-tech product.