Representative experience
- Representing a government-owned company in a US$450 million UNCITRAL joint venture / investment dispute with a Caspian region state;
- Representing a Middle-Eastern investment fund in an LCIA contractual / fraud dispute worth US$100 million with a sovereign wealth fund in another Middle-Eastern country;
- Representing several hundred employees of an international organisation in a dispute with that organisation worth approximately US$4 billion before the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation and subsequently before the European Court of Human Rights;
- Representing one of the largest Swiss banks in a dispute in the High Court worth US$$50 million with a trading company in connection with the interpretation of letters of credit and related instruments (letters of indemnity);
- Representing a Geneva-based petroleum trading company in a dispute with the Iraqi state-owned oil-marketing corporation;
- Representing one of Russia’s largest metal trading companies in an LCIA charter party dispute with an Indian trading house;
- Representing a Geneva-based commodity trading house in a US$12 million charter party dispute with a Russian ship owner involving issues of maritime liens, demurrage and freight;
- Representing a Geneva-based petroleum trading company in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court in relation to a contractual dispute involving issue of conflict of laws;
- Representing a commodity-trading house in a dispute with its hedging service provider, involving issues of illegality and failure to obtain a licence to provide financial services on the part of the latter;
- Advising an international organisation on pension and internal tax reforms;
- Advising on a joint-venture agreement between a Geneva-based petroleum trader and a state-owned Ukrainian company for acquisition and shipment of crude oil from the Balkans and its refinement and subsequent sale in Ukraine;
- Advising and assisting a UK-based listed financial services provider firm with negotiations with financial regulators;
- Training sessions for various commodity trading houses and shipping firms in Geneva.