Matters, awards, and firm news from the last twenty four months. Client names are withheld where the engagement is confidential, which is most of the time.
The Commercial Court dismissed a US$2.1 billion claim arising out of a structured reinsurance programme, accepting our client's construction of the treaty in full and awarding costs on the indemnity basis. Permission to appeal was refused.
Expropriation claim brought for a Gulf infrastructure investor after eleven days of hearings in Paris. Recognition proceedings were opened in three jurisdictions within a fortnight of the award being issued.
Trade secret and contract claims were disposed of before expert discovery, on a documentary record assembled in the first ten weeks of the case. The court found no triable issue on any of the four asserted secrets.
The London office adds two commercial litigation partners and a partner in the enforcement group, taking the London partnership to fourteen.
Assets were identified in four jurisdictions and restrained pending satisfaction of a US$410 million judgment obtained by the firm in 2024. Disclosure orders were made against two corporate service providers.
Acting for a group of minority holders. The court found that the special committee process had been compromised from the outset and that the controller had not carried its burden on entire fairness.
The firm published guidance for award creditors on the narrowing of the commercial use exception and its practical effect on attachment strategy.
Defence of an Asian conglomerate in a dispute running to five years and four preliminary applications. The tribunal awarded costs to our client on the full indemnity basis.
The principal legal directories placed the firm in the highest available band for commercial litigation or international arbitration in the United States, England and Wales, France, Germany, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates.
Authorities in two jurisdictions closed their files against a listed industrial group and three of its directors without charge, following voluntary disclosure and an internal investigation conducted by the firm.
The challenge to the tribunal's jurisdiction and to the constitution of the panel was rejected on every ground advanced. Enforcement followed in two further jurisdictions.
Obtained in Munich for a medical device client within eleven weeks of instruction, and upheld on appeal. The injunction remains in force pending the main proceedings.
The firm hosted general counsel and heads of litigation from twenty six companies for a closed session on award enforcement against sovereign counterparties.
A follow-on claim valued by the claimants at £540 million was struck out in its entirety on limitation grounds, with costs.
Appointment obtained in two offshore jurisdictions on the same day, following an eighteen month tracing exercise conducted by the firm's investigations group.
The jury returned a defence verdict after a three week trial and rejected the claimant's damages model in full.
Interim relief was obtained within six weeks of the request for arbitration, preserving supply to our client's European operations pending the final award.
Three forensic accountants and a former financial intelligence analyst joined the firm's recovery practice in New York and London.
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