Our Experience
We are dispute resolution specialists with expertise in international commercial and investment treaty arbitration. We act as counsel, arbitrator, expert, and advisor in complex and high-value disputes across a diverse range of specialist sectors.
We have significant experience in representing clients as counsel in international arbitrations conducted under the rules of the major arbitral institutions, including the ICSID, ICC, LCIA, SIAC, and CIETAC, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Rules.
Our team members regularly sit as presiding, sole and party-appointed arbitrator in domestic and international commercial arbitration proceedings. They also appear in court and arbitration proceedings as party or court-appointed expert.
• Acting for US and Canadian brothers in a third-party funded $2bn. UNCITRAL arbitration seated in Paris against Romania. The brothers’ ancestors built in Bucharest in the 1930s the largest film production facilities in South-Eastern Europe. This investment was expropriated by communist Romania in 1948 through forceful sale of the brothers’ ancestors’ shares in the company owning the film production facilities. Post-communist Romania passed legislations granting restitution and compensation rights to the victims of the communist regime. The brothers’ treaty claims arose out of the judicial and administrative taking of their modern-day restitution and compensation rights granted by Romania in the 2000s, which rights have been held to constitute residual rights for the purposes of the investment requirement to establish the tribunal’s jurisdiction over the brothers’ claim
• Acting for two Middle Eastern high-net-worth individuals who developed a luxurious real estate project in Sofia in a €50m. ICSID claim against Bulgaria arising out of the judicial taking of the investment through abusive and unmeritorious bankruptcy proceedings initiated against the investors’ company
• Acting for the heirs of a Lithuanian investor in a third-party funded €1bn. ICSID dispute under the Energy Charter Treaty against Bulgaria arising out of the illegal taking of the shares in Bulgaria’s largest fuels distributor and fuels storage facilities operator and securing the dismissal of respondent’s application based on Article 41(5) of the ICSID Arbitration Rules
• Acting as legal expert in an ICSID arbitration arising out of the expropriation of the uranium mining licenses of a US company
• Securing the full dismissal of an ICC arbitration proceeding initiated against a Turkish company client arising out of a $150m. loan facility extended by a Swiss bank
• Securing a clearcut win for the entire amount claimed ($12m.) by a Philippine company in a Singapore seated ICC arbitration initiated against a Swiss global market leader in providing security inks and integrated security solutions in relation to the Philippine fuel marking program
• Securing the full dismissal of jurisdiction in a Chinese law governed CIETAC arbitration initiated against the Turkish company client arising out of matters involving sale of goods and fraud committed against the client
• Securing a win for a Turkish aerospace company against a US helicopter manufacturer in a Geneva seated ICC arbitration arising out of the sale of fuselages and other aerospace products where the tribunal declared the invalidity of the grounds for non-payment by the US company and acting in the follow-up Geneva seated ICC arbitration for the amount due to the client until the arbitration was suspended as a result of the US company’s Chapter 11 (bankruptcy) application
• Securing a settlement for a leading Turkish energy company for the full amount of its counterclaims in an ICC arbitration initiated by a leading French renewable energy company against the client in relation to the drilling services provided by the French company
• Acting for the largest Turkish defence company against a Canadian aerospace company in a Geneva seated ICC arbitration in connection with a $60m. dispute concerning the design and modification works performed on an aircraft
• Securing third-party funding and ATE insurance for a Maltese company and acting in a €180m. ICC arbitration seated in Zurich against the pioneering French tourism operator of the premium all-inclusive concept in connection with the management of a resort in the Turkish Riviera
• Acting for a leading Turkish construction company against a regional interior solution subcontractor based in the UAE in an over AED 125m. DIFC-LCIA arbitration seated in Dubai in connection with the construction of a $1bn. complex involving branded / serviced residence and hotel towers
• Acting for a shareholder of a leading Turkish pharmaceutical company in an over $500m. ICC arbitration dispute arising out of the exercise of the put option and the initiation of the compulsory sale process under an SHA, and securing interim measure preventing the other shareholder from enforcing its pledge over the client’s shares
• Advising a leading Turkish construction company on an emergency arbitrator application under the SIAC Arbitration Rules to successfully secure interim measures precluding a Central Asian state authority from cashing in a bank guarantee
• Acting for a Turkish party in a $20m. ad hoc arbitration seated in Istanbul arising out of a JVA related to iron ore mining
• Acting as arbitrator in 6 cases (3 sole arbitrator, 1 presiding arbitrator, 1 party-appointed, and 1 emergency arbitrator) in international and domestic arbitrations