Our Experience

We are dispute resolution specialists who have 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, and SIAC, 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.

Our representative experience in investment treaty arbitrations

• Acting as lead counsel for US and Canadian individuals in a third-party funded $2 billion UNCITRAL arbitration seated in Paris against Romania arising out of the judicial and administrative taking of the largest film production facilities in South-Eastern Europe; • Acting for the heirs of a Lithuanian investor in a third-party funded €1 billion 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; • Acting for two Middle Eastern high-net-worth individuals in a €50 million ICSID claim against Bulgaria arising out of the judicial taking of a company that developed a luxury real estate project; • Acting as legal expert on Turkish mining law in an ICSID arbitration arising out of the expropriation of the uranium mining licenses of a US company.
Our representative experience in international commercial arbitrations

• Acting as lead counsel for the largest Turkish defence company against a Canadian aerospace company in a Geneva seated ICC arbitration in connection with a Swiss law governed $60 million dispute concerning the design and modification works performed on an aircraft; • Acting as lead counsel for a Turkish aerospace company against a US helicopter manufacturer in two Geneva seated ICC arbitrations arising out of the sale of aerospace products under the CISG; • Acting as lead counsel for a Philippine company in a Singapore seated Swiss law governed ICC arbitration claim against a Swiss global market leader in providing security inks and integrated security solutions in relation to the Philippine fuel marking program; • Acting as lead counsel for a Maltese company against the pioneering French tourism operator of the premium all-inclusive concept in a third-party funded Swiss law governed €190 million ICC arbitration seated in Zurich in connection with the management of a resort in Turkish Riviera; • Acting as lead counsel for a shareholder of a leading Turkish pharmaceutical company in an ICC arbitration claim arising out of the exercise of the put option under a Turkish law governed shareholders’ agreement; • Acting as lead counsel for one of the major Turkish oil companies in a Turkish law governed ICC arbitration dispute against a French renewable energy producer arising out of drilling works performed in respect of a geothermal power plant; • Acting for a shareholder of a telecommunication company in Southeast Europe against major international financial institutions in a London seated UNCITRAL arbitration (LCIA being the appointing authority) over the exercise of a call option under an English law governed shareholders’ agreement; • Acting as lead counsel for a Turkish company in an ICC arbitration claim arising out of a Swiss law governed $150 million loan facility extended by a Swiss bank; • Advising the legal team of a Turkish company in defending a $700 million ICC arbitration claim arising out of a Swiss law governed agreement with respect to the purchase of the shares in a Turkish mining company; • Advising a leading Turkish construction company on an emergency arbitrator application against a Central Asian state authority under the SIAC Arbitration Rules.