Experience

• • Tethyan Copper Company in its US$6 billion arbitration win against the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, which is the second-largest ICSID award ever rendered.
  • An international pharmaceutical company in an ICC emergency arbitration concerning supply obligations.
  • A major shareholder in a publicly traded Russian joint stock company in LCIA proceedings commenced by another major shareholder involving claims of a breach of understanding between the parties relating to that company.
  • Advice on a potential LCIA claim for breach of contract and misrepresentation in relation to a shareholder agreement between two Argentinian entities.
  • A multinational professional services firm in a Belgian-seated commercial arbitration arising out of a post-M&A dispute.
  • The Center for Reproductive Rights in securing UN recommendations to overturn El Salvador’s criminalization of abortion.
  • A Cypriot company in a complex commercial arbitration in Stockholm under the SCC Rules, engaging contractual and fiduciary claims under German, Cypriot and Swedish law.
  • A Dutch investor in ICSID arbitration against an Eastern European state, relating predominantly to insurance sector assets.
  • The Republic of Korea in ICSID arbitration filed by IPICI and Hanocal.
  • A Russian shareholder in a highly publicised SCC arbitration regarding the ownership of a multi-billion dollar stake in one of Russia’s largest mobile phone operators.
  • A leading international oil & gas company in the quantification of losses arising from its investment treaty dispute with Venezuela which, at the time, was the highest-ever value claim brought under the ICSID rules.
  • Various international oil & gas companies in the settlement of a high-profile and complex cost recovery and fiscal stabilization dispute with the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
  • Various international oil & gas companies in the settlement of a production sharing agreement dispute with a CIS state oil company.
  • A joint venture between two of the world’s largest oil & gas companies in a multi-billion dollar overlifting and fiscal stabilization dispute with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company.
  • A FTSE-100 company in structuring investment protections for a tax settlement in a Middle Eastern conflict zone.
  • An international energy generation company in its renewable energy tariff dispute with an Eastern European Government.
  • An international Africa-based mobile telecommunications company in a multi-billion dollar shareholder dispute in Nigeria.
  • An African mobile telecommunications company in licence disputes in Iran, ATS claims in the U.S., and a highly publicized investigation in its home jurisdiction.
  • A European private equity fund in the recovery of shares stolen in a corporate raid carried out through the corrupt enforcement of a fraudulent arbitration award.
  • A large United States consulting firm in an arbitration brought by an Italian company in Milan under the rules of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration.
  • An international NGO in relation to global litigation strategy regarding claims before UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies across multiple Latin American states.