Commercial arbitration experience includes:

• A global pharmaceutical company in LCIA arbitration of a pricing dispute concerning a long-term manufacture and supply agreement.
• A consumer health company regarding termination of a long-term drug supply agreement.
• A global pharmaceutical company in a post-M&A dispute in respect of a shareholders’ agreement between JV parties.
• A global pharmaceutical company in a post-M&A dispute concerning employee issues, audit, invoices, breach of warranty and debt recovery.
• A refinery in an LCIA arbitration arising out of termination of a long-term supply agreement linked to sanctions.
• A global pharmaceutical company in relation to a LCIA arbitration arising out of an aborted M&A transaction.
• A Delaware-incorporated NYSE listed medical technology company in relation to a threatened LCIA arbitration arising out of a post-M&A dispute relating to a distribution agreement.
• A US-based biotechnology company in settling a termination dispute arising from a JV.
• A respondent in an LMAA arbitration concerning the impact of sanctions on an energy supply agreement.
• A multinational mobile telecoms operator in a shareholder dispute with an African local joint venture partner and its chairman.
• An Asian government in an arbitration under the CIArb Rules, relating to a contract for the provision of intelligence and asset tracing services.
• A Brazilian multinational mining corporation on dispute resolution provisions in its standard form agreements.

Investment-treaty experience includes:

• A multinational telecommunications company in UNCITRAL proceedings arising out of its business in a South East Asian State.
• A Middle Eastern State in ICSID proceedings concerning the application of sanctions against sanctioned entities by local financial institutions.
• A Middle Eastern Kingdom in ICSID proceedings brought by Turkish construction company DSG Yapi, arising out of a terminated construction contract on a complex infrastructure project.
• A North African State in ICSID proceedings concerning a terminated construction contract.
• The UAE in an ICSID arbitration brought by a Turkish investor concerning a denial of justice claim arising out of a construction project.
• A UAE investment and development body on the merits and strategy of its UNCITRAL claim against India.
• The Islamic Republic of Pakistan in successfully defending two USD575 million UNCITRAL arbitrations brought by Mr Ali Allawi and the Progas group of companies.
• The Islamic Republic of Pakistan in an ICSID investment treaty arbitration brought by the Australian Tethyan Copper Company and arising out of the Reko Diq copper and gold mine in Balochistan.
• An oil & gas plc in three investment treaty claims (subsequently consolidated) against Ukraine, including successful emergency arbitrator and interim measures applications.
• The Republic of Slovenia in the damages phase of an ICSID arbitration defending claims brought by the Croatian national electricity company and relating to a nuclear power station.
• Enforcement and challenge proceedings before the UK courts, including acting as solicitor-advocate to defend enforcement proceedings against a State on the basis of sovereign immunity.

Arbitration related court experience includes:

• Acting for AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP against Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC in securing and defending an anti-arbitration injunction in the English Supreme Court ([2013] UKSC 35).
• Acting for Pakistan in challenges and enforcement proceedings before the Commercial Court: including Progas Energy Ltd v Pakistan [2018] EWHC 209 (Comm); Allawi v The Islamic Republic of Pakistan [2019] EWHC 430 (Comm); Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Ors v Broadsheet LLC [2019] EWHC 1832 (Comm).