Practice area
International Arbitration
LCIA · ICC · SIAC · Commercial Court (ss. 67–69)
An award is worth exactly what you can enforce. We plan backwards from that.
All practice areas
Partner in charge
What the work is
References under LCIA, ICC and SIAC rules, usually arising out of shareholder agreements, joint ventures and long-term supply contracts where the parties sit in different jurisdictions.
We are as interested in the enforcement position as in the merits. An award against a respondent with no reachable assets is an expensive piece of paper, and you will hear that from us at the outset rather than at the end.
Tribunal selection is the part clients underestimate. The arbitrator who is right for a technical construction dispute is rarely right for a shareholder fight conducted in bad faith, and the appointment is effectively irreversible. We spend real time on it.
Seat, governing law and the arbitration clause itself usually decide more than the pleadings do. Where we are instructed before a dispute crystallises, the cheapest work we ever do is reading the clause and telling you what it will mean.
Challenges under sections 67 to 69 succeed rarely and are pursued too often. We will tell you which of the three routes is genuinely open, what it costs, and — more usually — that the award should be enforced rather than fought.
Typical matters
LCIA, ICC and SIAC references under commercial and shareholder agreements
Challenges and appeals to the Commercial Court under sections 67 to 69
Enforcement of awards, and resistance to enforcement, across jurisdictions
Emergency arbitrator applications and interim measures
Reported decisions in this area
A first conversation
Tell us what happened. We will tell you whether it is worth fighting.
A partner reads every enquiry and takes the first call. You will hear back within one working day, and within a week you will have a written view on the merits and the likely cost.
★★★★★
Band 1 · Commercial Litigation
For urgent injunctions and freezing relief out of hours, call +44 7700 900118. Answered by a partner, not a service.
Put a matter to us
Practice area
International Arbitration
LCIA · ICC · SIAC · Commercial Court (ss. 67–69)
An award is worth exactly what you can enforce. We plan backwards from that.
All practice areas
Partner in charge
What the work is
References under LCIA, ICC and SIAC rules, usually arising out of shareholder agreements, joint ventures and long-term supply contracts where the parties sit in different jurisdictions.
We are as interested in the enforcement position as in the merits. An award against a respondent with no reachable assets is an expensive piece of paper, and you will hear that from us at the outset rather than at the end.
Tribunal selection is the part clients underestimate. The arbitrator who is right for a technical construction dispute is rarely right for a shareholder fight conducted in bad faith, and the appointment is effectively irreversible. We spend real time on it.
Seat, governing law and the arbitration clause itself usually decide more than the pleadings do. Where we are instructed before a dispute crystallises, the cheapest work we ever do is reading the clause and telling you what it will mean.
Challenges under sections 67 to 69 succeed rarely and are pursued too often. We will tell you which of the three routes is genuinely open, what it costs, and — more usually — that the award should be enforced rather than fought.
Typical matters
LCIA, ICC and SIAC references under commercial and shareholder agreements
Challenges and appeals to the Commercial Court under sections 67 to 69
Enforcement of awards, and resistance to enforcement, across jurisdictions
Emergency arbitrator applications and interim measures
Reported decisions in this area
A first conversation
Tell us what happened. We will tell you whether it is worth fighting.
A partner reads every enquiry and takes the first call. You will hear back within one working day, and within a week you will have a written view on the merits and the likely cost.
★★★★★
Band 1 · Commercial Litigation
For urgent injunctions and freezing relief out of hours, call +44 7700 900118. Answered by a partner, not a service.
Put a matter to us
Practice area
International Arbitration
LCIA · ICC · SIAC · Commercial Court (ss. 67–69)
An award is worth exactly what you can enforce. We plan backwards from that.
All practice areas
Partner in charge
What the work is
References under LCIA, ICC and SIAC rules, usually arising out of shareholder agreements, joint ventures and long-term supply contracts where the parties sit in different jurisdictions.
We are as interested in the enforcement position as in the merits. An award against a respondent with no reachable assets is an expensive piece of paper, and you will hear that from us at the outset rather than at the end.
Tribunal selection is the part clients underestimate. The arbitrator who is right for a technical construction dispute is rarely right for a shareholder fight conducted in bad faith, and the appointment is effectively irreversible. We spend real time on it.
Seat, governing law and the arbitration clause itself usually decide more than the pleadings do. Where we are instructed before a dispute crystallises, the cheapest work we ever do is reading the clause and telling you what it will mean.
Challenges under sections 67 to 69 succeed rarely and are pursued too often. We will tell you which of the three routes is genuinely open, what it costs, and — more usually — that the award should be enforced rather than fought.
Typical matters
LCIA, ICC and SIAC references under commercial and shareholder agreements
Challenges and appeals to the Commercial Court under sections 67 to 69
Enforcement of awards, and resistance to enforcement, across jurisdictions
Emergency arbitrator applications and interim measures
Reported decisions in this area
A first conversation
Tell us what happened. We will tell you whether it is worth fighting.
A partner reads every enquiry and takes the first call. You will hear back within one working day, and within a week you will have a written view on the merits and the likely cost.
★★★★★
Band 1 · Commercial Litigation
For urgent injunctions and freezing relief out of hours, call +44 7700 900118. Answered by a partner, not a service.
Put a matter to us