Commercial Litigation, Europe

Experience Highlights

• Estera Trust (Jersey) and Herinder Singh in a long-running shareholder dispute, which involved the Radisson Edwardian group of hotels in London and culminated in an order for a buyout of the petitioners' shares at approximately £140 million, beating the respondents' publicly disclosed settlement offer of £50 million.
• Investment banks in disputes arising out of transactions subject to ISDA Master Agreements.
• UK mining engineers in English High Court (Technology & Construction Court) for claims arising from project in central Asia.
• Private equity houses on high-value disputes and advising on compliance programmes to be implemented within the PE house and portfolio companies.
• Heineken's pan-European trucks fleet in relation to damages arising out of the EU trucks cartel.
• European private equity firm in a dispute related to carried interest and the interpretation of shareholders' agreements and sponsor investor agreements. The matter involved proceedings in London and Germany as well as a new, innovative evidence-gathering process for compelling witnesses aboard to support UK-based arbitrations.
• Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela led by Interim President Juan Guaidó in dispute over access to £820m in Gold Reserves held by Bank of England.
• Major art auction house in litigation involving allegations of fraud with respect to the purchase and sale of numerous art masterpieces.
• Large US telecommunication company and market leader in an international enforcement of damage claims in the 10-digit range against Turkish billionaire family Uzan and Turkish telecommunication company Telsim, including injunctive relief, the attachment of property (shares, real estate, aircraft, etc.) and the enforcement of foreign arbitration awards and US-judgments.