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Recognised as a leader in the field of international arbitration, Angeline also has extensive experience in handling commercial, public, constitutional and human rights law cases. She regularly conducts substantial advocacy before both commercial and investment treaty arbitral tribunals, the English Courts, BVI and the Belize courts. She has appeared before final appellate courts; the UK Supreme Court, the Privy Council, and the Caribbean Court of Justice.

Angeline combines a fierce intellect and commercial instinct with outstanding communication and collaboration skills. She has been described in the directories as “An exceptional barrister – she is clever, easy to work with and her attention to detail is second to none. She excels in difficult cross-examinations”; as “intelligent” and “commercial” with “incredible knowledge” and “deep experience in international arbitration”; and as “exceptionally user-friendly” and “an excellent team player”. Angeline has particular expertise in international arbitration. She has advised on, and appeared in, some of the leading arbitration cases in the English jurisdiction and elsewhere.  In 2023, Angeline was recognized as one of GAR’s 45 leading arbitration practitioners globally under the age of 45. She was also shortlisted for International Arbitration Silk of the year by Legal 500 (her first year in silk). In 2021, she was named as International Arbitration Junior of the Year by Chambers and Partners. As an arbitrator, Angeline has sat either as sole, co- or presiding arbitrator in over 30 matters.

Prior to being called to the bars of England and Wales, Belize and the British Virgin Islands, Angeline was Counsel and Solicitor Advocate with a major international law firm. As a result, she has a unique insight of the pressures and demands on instructing solicitors as well as significant experience of leading teams and strategy for large litigation cases. She has litigated a broad range of commercial disputes, including those in the energy, telecoms, financial, construction, manufacturing and shipping sectors, before the English courts, courts in the commonwealth and arbitral tribunals under the LCIA, HKIAC, ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, SCC, SIAC and BVI IAC rules.

Angeline currently serves on the ICC UK Selections Subcommittee.  She is a former Vice-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee. Outside her practice, she is committed to various community projects; she is a director of the ALN Academy (a not for profit charity charged with promoting the rule of law in Africa), a member of the steering committee for DELOS Remote Oral Advocacy Programme, and has acted as a mentor on the COMBAR Mentoring Scheme for Underrepresented Groups.

She is qualified to accept instructions on a Direct/Public Access basis, but does not do so currently.

 

What Others Say

Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2024, International Arbitration: General Commercial & Insurance:

“Angeline understands both the technical and legal nuances of a case and arguments, and executes her role in a hearing superbly.” “Angeline is an obviously talented individual.” “Angeline Welsh has a remarkably agile mind and an ability to very quickly assimilate unusual legal concepts from other legal systems, with an understanding of what works and what does not.”

Legal 500 UK Bar 2024, International Arbitration: Counsel:

‘Exceptionally user-friendly, with experience from a former life as a solicitor and so understanding the needs on this side of the practice. Insightful yet commercial advice a real strength, and a strong work ethic. An invaluable part of any team she joins.’ ‘Excellent client handling skills and a joy to work with.’

Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2023, International Arbitration: General Commercial & Insurance:
“Angeline is intelligent, commercial and approachable. She is also incredibly good at making the pragmatic point in a sensitive and client-friendly manner.” “She’s excellent on all matters relating to arbitration, including in challenges to awards in court.”

Legal 500 UK Bar 2023, International Arbitration: Counsel:
“Exceptionally user-friendly, with experience from a former life as a solicitor and so understanding the needs on this side of the practice. Insightful yet commercial advice a real strength, and a strong work ethic. An invaluable part of any team she joins.”

Who’s Who Legal Arbitration 2022:
Angeline Welsh is highlighted as “an excellent team player and a leader in the field”. One source comments: “Angeline is wonderful to work with and incredibly sharp.”

Legal 500 UK Bar 2022, International Arbitration: Counsel:
“An exceptional barrister – she is clever, easy to work with and her attention to detail is second to none. She excels in difficult cross-examinations”

Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2022, International Arbitration: General Commercial & Insurance:
“She is thorough, detail-oriented and has a detailed knowledge of the underlying legal elements involved in matters.” “She is sharp and responsive and gives great consideration to the issues at play. She also has a mind to the commercial realities which influence her advice.”

Who’s Who Legal Global 2021, International Arbitration:
Angeline Welsh’s “rapid rise at the Bar comes as no surprise” to peers, as a result of her “deep experience in international arbitration” and “incredibly impressive” practice.

Legal 500 UK Bar 2021, International Arbitration: Counsel:
“An impressive junior who is enjoyable to work with.”

Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2021, International Arbitration: General Commercial & Insurance:
“One of the leading arbitration-focused juniors at the Bar.”

“She has incredible knowledge and is an incredibly easy to person to get along with.”

Chambers UK 2020, International Arbitration:
“An impressive mastery of the details of a case and of technical legal arguments.” “Extremely hands-on, approachable and a real team player.”

Chambers UK 2019, International Arbitration:
“She is doing excellent work and is a great member of the arbitration community” and “Very dedicated”.

Who’s Who UK Bar, International Arbitration:
“a bright and efficient advocate” regarded as “a very strong up-and-coming name” in the international arbitration field.

Legal Week 2017
“She is…not frightened to tackle novel and difficult areas of law, or “to deal head-on with the more complicated aspects of a case,” with “excellent judgment and leadership qualities”.”

Who’s Who Future Leaders 2017, International Arbitration:
Angeline Welsh is “extremely knowledgeable and engaging”, and her “wealth of experience on complex cases allows her to gain client confidence easily”.

Chambers UK 2017, International Arbitration: General Commercial & Insurance:
“Possesses a wide international arbitration practice, covering a range of commercial claims, including those concerning investment treaties and the energy, telecommunications and construction sectors. She is especially sought after for her expertise in handling disputes arising in emerging markets and in court proceedings related to arbitrations, such as enforcement of arbitral awards and anti-suit injunctions.”

Chambers UK 2016, International Arbitration:
“Angeline Welsh is “immensely helpful,” according to clients, due to her “ability to put herself in the client’s situation when problem solving.””

Chambers UK 2015, Administrative & Public Law:
“Angeline Welsh is an associate with growing expertise in the overlap between international arbitration and domestic public law. She has advised on judicial reviews in the Supreme Court and the Privy Council. Sources laud her as “a bit of a star. She’s a very good litigator with inexhaustible energy”.

Arbitration & related court applications

Angeline has acted as counsel (led and unled) in a range of complex arbitrations under a range of arbitral rules and has been instructed in commercial court cases. Her practice includes commercial arbitration across a range of sectors (including construction, energy, financial and telecoms disputes). She has particular expertise in emerging market jurisdictions and in handling commercial disputes against states.

Relevant cases include:

Commercial and Investment Treaty Arbitration

  • Acting for an Indian manufacturing company in a dispute against a foreign investor arising in relation to the alleged illegal and wrongful termination of a Joint Venture Agreement, Shareholders Agreement and/or License Agreements.  Kolkata seat, SIAC Rules.  Indian law governed.
  • Acting for major African state owned electricity company in dispute relating to the failed privatization of electricity distribution services.  UNCITRAL Rules, London seated. Contracts Ghanian law governed.
  • Acting for Asian restaurant company on a dispute relating to the exercise of a call option in a shareholders agreement and the application of an expert determination valuation clause. LCIA, Singapore seated arbitration.
  • Acting for BG Group and Reliance Industries in an UNCITRAL arbitration claim against the Union of India in relation to oil fields in the Mumbai basin. Contracts Indian law governed;
  • Acting for an investment bank in a successful UNCITRAL arbitration claim against a real estate development company in India, and assisting with enforcement proceedings in the US and England and Wales.  Contract Indian law governed;
  • Acting for British Caribbean Bank Limitd & Prize Holdings International Limited v The Government of Belize PCA 2023-38: Case concerned the failure of the Government to give environmental clearance to a project for the construction and development of a Cruise Ship Terminal and Cargo and Bulk handling terminal in Belize City, notwithstanding certain assurances given by the Government to the Waterloo group.
  • Acting for The Republic of Slovenia in ICSID arbitration brought by Addiko Bank AG under the Austria-Slovenia BIT for alleged breaches of the treaty (FET, protection and security of investments and unreasonable, arbitrary and /or discriminaroty measures) in relation to law adopted by the Slovenian National Assembly on the Limitation and Distribution of Currency risk between Lenders and Borrowrs of Loans in Swiss Francs which imosed a FX cap on all CHF consumer loans.
  • Acting for major oil company in LCIA Arbitration concerning breach of a representation and warranty under a Share Purchase Agreement relating to the acquisition of an oil and gas business.  Raised complex concepts related to the trading and value of oil and gas. Danish law and English governing laws.
  • Acting in the Belize courts on injunction and constitutional proceedings relating to the State’s attempts to prevent execution steps being taken in respect of arbitral awards enforced in the United States;
  • Acting for British Caribbean Bank Limited on its successful claim against the Government of Belize under the UK Belize Bilateral Investment Treaty (PCA Case No 2010-18), including acting on related constitutional court proceedings and injunction proceedings;
  • Acting for Dunkeld International Investment Limited in relation to a claim against the Government of Belize under the UK-Belize Bilateral Investment Treaty (PCA Case Nos 2010- 13 and 2010-21) including acting on related injunction proceedings;
  • Acting for Dunkeld International Investment Limited in relation to a claim against the Government of Belize for expropriate of the right to arbitrate following the enactment of legislation criminalizing the pursuit of arbitration proceedings;
  • Acting for an oil and gas company on a large, complex dispute relating to a construction project in the Caspian Sea conducted on an expedited basis under the LCIA Rules;
  • Acting for Lloyds Banking Group in an LCIA arbitration against Standard Life Aberdeen over the management of £100 billion in assets;
  • Acting in the Belize courts on injunction and constitutional proceedings relating to the State’s attempts to prevent execution steps being taken in respect of arbitral awards enforced in the United States;
  • Acting for an investment bank defending a tax warranty claim under the HKIAC arbitration rules;
  • Acting for an oil and gas company in arbitration under the UNCITRAL Rules in a dispute against a provider of seismic survey work for breach of contract claim in Algeria;
  • Acting for a satellite construction company in a successful LCIA arbitration in a dispute concerning an alleged anomaly in the satellite worth around U.S. $17 million;
  • Acting on AES Corporation and Tau Power B.V. v Kazakhstan (ICSID Case No. ARB/10/16); Representing a large corporate in an ICC arbitration concerning a dispute arising out of termination of an exclusive contract with a logistics provider for the European Region;
  • Acting for a bank in an LCIA arbitration concerning allegations relating to the validity of a loan note, specifically the capacity of the borrower to enter into the loan note;
  • Acting for telecommunications company in an LCIA arbitration against a state relating to a concession agreement raising issues related the legality of the taxation and regulatory regime;
  • Acting for a bank and its holding company in an LCIA arbitration relating to a settlement agreement with a state entity, in particular concerning the legality of certain tax treatment; Advising on an insurance related dispute under the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration advising on dispute relating to closing accounts under the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration;
  • Acting for claimant in an LCIA arbitration, successfully setting aside loan and pledge agreements on the basis of extortion;
  • Acting for a major investment bank in an LCIA arbitration in relation to a dispute arising out of joint bookrunner engagement terms;
  • Acting for respondent to an ICC arbitration concerning a construction dispute arising out of an agreement for mechanical works relating to the construction of a polyethylene plant in Eastern Europe.

Arbitration related court experience

Angeline has particular expertise in handling applications related to arbitration. She has advised on a range of court applications related to arbitration, including anti-suit injunctions, interim relief in support of arbitration and enforcement of arbitral awards.

Relevant cases include:

  • Soleymani v Nifty Gateway [2022] EWCA Civ 1297; [2022] 10 WLUK 14: acting for successful Appellant. Described by The Lawyer as a “landmark NFT lawsuit”, in this appeal the Court of Appeal considered, for the first time post-Brexit, the interplay between the legal frameworks for consumer protection and for international arbitration, and in particular, the extent to which a party who wishes to exercise his or her English law consumer rights to invalidate an arbitration agreement is able to have those rights determined by the English court.
  • Consilient Health Ltd v Gedeon Richter Plc [2022] EWHC 1744 (Ch); [2022] EWHC 1956 (Ch). First time the English court has grappled with whether there should be an adjournment/stay of enforcement of an arbitral award in circumstances where that award is not for the payment of sums, with the consequence that the adjournment/stay cannot be mitigated through a payment of security on account.  In addition, this is the first time that the court has determined that the costs of the stay application should be resolved only once the outcome of the challenge proceedings are known.
  • Tethyan Copper Company Pty Limited v Islamic Republic of Pakistan: case is understood to be the first in the BVI dealing with recognition and enforcement of ICSID Awards, the procedural requirements for service on a foreign State under the Eastern Caribbean CPR following the English Court of appeal decision in General Dynamics v Libyaand the circumstances in which State-owned corporations can be assimilated to the State in order to meet its obligations under an arbitration award.  It is also established that interim relief would not available against a State where a waiver of sovereign immunity had not been established.
  • A and B v C, D and E [2020] EWCA Civ 409: acting for Third Respondent in case concerning whether the court had jurisdiction under s.44(2)(a) of the Arbitration Act 1996 to make an order against an individual compelling him to give evidence in support of a New York seated arbitration, notwithstanding he was not a party to the arbitration agreement;
  • A v B [2017] EWHC 503 (Comm): concerning circumstances in which a claim for enforcement of an arbitral award may be served by alternative service rather than under the Hague Convention;
  • AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP against Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC [2013] UKSC 35: acting as counsel for AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP against Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC in securing and defending an antiarbitration injunction from the English Court obtained against a Kazakhstan state entity ([2013] UKSC 35);
  • BCB Holdings Limited v AG of Belize (CCJ Appeal No 7 of 2013): acting on the first appeal before The Caribbean Court of Justice to consider the objections of arbitrability and public policy to the enforcement of an arbitral award (CCJ Appeal No. CV7 of 2012);
  • Acting for the ICC in its intervention in the high profile English Supreme Court in Jivraj v Hashwani ([2011] UKSC 40) (concerning whether an arbitration agreement which specified that arbitrators must be of a particular religious faith was contrary to discrimination legislation and therefore unlawful, a case which had broader implications for the validity of arbitration clauses which commonly include nationality requirements.);
  • Advising on a challenge to an arbitral award in the Delhi High Court (Union of India v Reliance Industries Ltd & Anor OMP 46 of 2012);
  • Regularly advising on applying for and defending anti-suit injunctions, anti-arbitration injunctions, and applications for recognition and enforcement.
Commercial dispute resolution

Angeline has over 15 years’ experience litigating commercial disputes in a diverse range of industry sector and legal issues. She is experienced acting alone as sole advocate for interlocutory applications and trials, as well as forming part of a larger team with leading counsel. Given the international dimension of Angeline’s practice, she is used to assisting foreign lawyers in substantial overseas litigation and has experience of acting in disputes before the courts of the England and Wales, the British Virgin Islands, Belize and the Turks & Caicos Islands.

Representative examples include:

Court litigation

  • Colicci v Grinberg [2023] EWHC 1177 (Ch); [2023] EWHC 2075 (Ch). Case concerning  contractual interpretation and rectification of shareholders agreement, and whether a prior  deed to enter into a will to dispose of shares in a company remained in force.   Also, whether there was an effective Part 36 Offer in circumstances where there was no claim to money and the value of the property at issue had not been determined by the court.
  • Consilient Health Ltd v Gedeon Richter Plc [2022] EWHC 1744 (Ch); [2022] EWHC 1956 (Ch). First time the English court has grappled with whether there should be an adjournment/stay of enforcement of an arbitral award in circumstances where that award is not for the payment of sums, with the consequence that the adjournment/stay cannot be mitigated through a payment of security on account.  In addition, this is the first time that the court has determined that the costs of the stay application should be resolved only once the outcome of the challenge proceedings are known.
  • Tethyan Copper Company Pty Limited v Islamic Republic of Pakistan: case is understood to be the first in the BVI dealing with recognition and enforcement of ICSID Awards, the procedural requirements for service on a foreign State under the Eastern Caribbean CPR following the English Court of appeal decision in General Dynamics v Libyaand the circumstances in which State-owned corporations can be assimilated to the State in order to meet its obligations under an arbitration award.  It is also established that interim relief would not available against a State where a waiver of sovereign immunity had not been established.
  • A and B v C, D and E [2020] EWCA Civ 409: acting for Third Respondent in case concerning whether the court had jurisdiction under s.44(2)(a) of the Arbitration Act 1996 to make an order against an individual compelling him to give evidence in support of a New York seated arbitration, notwithstanding he was not a party to the arbitration agreement;
  • A v B [2017] EWHC 503 (Comm): concerning circumstances in which a claim for enforcement of an arbitral award may be served by alternative service rather than under the Hague Convention;
  • FortisTCI Limited v Islandcom Telecommunications Limited [2014] UKPC 33: acting for FortisTCI Limited on its successful appeal to the Privy Council relating to license requirements for ISM devices;
  • AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP against Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC [2013] UKSC 35: acting as counsel for AES in securing and defending an anti-arbitration injunction from the English Court obtained against a Kazakhstan state entity;
  • BCB Holdings Limited v AG of Belize (CCJ Appeal No 7 of 2013): acting on the first appeal before The Caribbean Court of Justice to consider the objections of arbitrability and public policy to the enforcement of an arbitral award;
  • Jivraj v Hashwani [2011] UKSC 40: acting for the ICC in its intervention in the high profile English Supreme Court in (concerning whether an arbitration agreement which specified that arbitrators must be of a particular religious faith was contrary to discrimination legislation and therefore unlawful, a case which had broader implications for the validity of arbitration clauses which commonly include nationality requirements);
  • Belize Bank Ltd v Association of Concerned Belizeans [2011] UKPC 35: appeal concerned with whether a document was properly construed as a loan or promissory note;
  • Belize Bank Ltd v Attorney General of Belize [2011] UKPC 36: appeal concerned whether public comments made by the minister of finance of Belize about perceived financial irregularities on the part of a bank but had also exercised his statutory obligation to appoint members of an administrative appeal board to determine an appeal concerning those perceived irregularities;
  • Attorney General of Belize v Belize Telecom Limited [2009] UKPC 10: one of the leading cases on implied contractual terms.

Arbitration

  • Acting for major African state owned electricity company in dispute relating to the failed privatization of electricity distribution services.  UNCITRAL Rules, London seated.  Contracts Ghanian law governed.
  • Acting for Asian restaurant company on a dispute relating to the exercise of a call option in a shareholders agreement and the application of an expert determination valuation clause.  LCIA, Singapore seated arbitration.
  • Acting for major oil company in LCIA Arbitration concerning breach of a representation and warranty under a Share Purchase Agreement relating to the acquisition of an oil and gas business.  Raised complex concepts related to the trading and value of oil and gas.
  • Acting for Lloyds Banking Group in an LCIA arbitration against Standard Life Aberdeen over the management of £100 billion in assets;
  • Acting for an oil and gas company on a large, complex and expedited dispute relating to a construction project in the Caspian Sea;
  • Acting for BG Group and Reliance Industries in a long running dispute arising under production sharing contracts for the extraction of oil from oil fields in the Mumbai basin; Acting for an investment bank in a joint venture dispute concerning an investment in a real estate development company in India, and assisting with enforcement proceedings in the US and England and Wales;
  • Acting for an investment bank defending a tax warranty claim under the HKIAC arbitration rules;
  • Acting for an oil and gas company in breach of contract claim with the provider of seismic survey work in Algeria;
  • Advising an oil and gas company in relation to a dispute with a Central Asian State; Acting for a witness in a deposition taken in support of foreign proceedings;
  • Successfully setting aside a loan agreement and pledge agreement on the basis of extortion; Acting for a satellite construction company in a dispute concerning an alleged anomaly in the satellite worth around U.S. $17 million;
  • Representing a large corporate in an ICC arbitration concerning a dispute arising out of termination of an exclusive contract with a European distributor;
  • Acting for a bank in an LCIA arbitration concerning allegations relating to the validity of a loan note, specifically the capacity of the borrower to enter into the loan note;
  • Acting for telecommunications company in an LCIA arbitration against a state relating to a concession agreement raising issues related the legality of the taxation and regulatory regime;
  • Acting for a bank and its holding company in an LCIA arbitration relating to a settlement agreement with a state entity, in particular concerning the legality of certain tax treatment; Advising on insurance related dispute under the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration advising on dispute relating to closing accounts under the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration.
Public & administrative law

Angeline has acted on a broad range of public law matters, before the English courts and the Caribbean and the ECtHR, including:

  • Gas Tomza Ltd & Others v Controller of Suppliers & Others: Civil Appeals Nos 12 and 13 of 2022 acting (with Edward Fitzgerald KC and and Andrew Marshalleck SC) for the Government of Belize in defending constitutional challenge to PPP to construct LPG terminal and storage facilities on the basis of alleged infringement of property, freedom of assemblyand right to work rights
  • AB, CD v The Attorney General of the Virgin Islands, Secretary of State of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs BVIHCV 2019/0064 & 0065: acting (with Prof Dan Sarooshi KC) for claimants in a constitutional claim before the BVI Courts relating to the imposition of public registers of beneficial ownership of companies in the British Virgin Islands.  Case involved establishing whether UK issued legislation could be challenged under the BVI constitution
  • advising (with Jessica Simor KC) Open Society Foundation on the question of whether the Hungarian NGO Funding Law is in breach of EU Fundamental Freedoms and Charter Rights acting for Ahmet and Mehmet Altan in their applications to the European Court of Human Rights relating to their detention in Turkey;
  • acting for Human Rights Watch as intervener in Big Brother Watch & Others v United Kingdom (ECtHR Application No: 58170/13);
  • acting as junior counsel for FortisTCI Limited on its successful appeal to the Privy Council relating to license requirements for ISM devices (FortisTCI Limited v Islandcom Telecommunications Limited [2014] UKPC 33);
  • acting for British Caribbean Bank in a series of constitutional challenges in the Belize courts to legislation, including constitutional amendments, expropriating the bank’s loan and security interests in connection with the nationalisation of the main telecoms company in Belize – Belize Telemedia Limited;
  • acting for individuals in successful constitutional challenge before the Caribbean Court of Justice to legislation imposing severe penalties (imprisonment and large fine) for acting in breach of court orders injuncting arbitration proceedings (CV 8 of 2012);
  • acting for Bail for Immigration Detainees as intervener in Shepherd Masimba Kambadzi (previously referred to as SK (Zimbabwe)) (FC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] UKSC 23;
  • Belize Bank Ltd v Attorney General of Belize [2011] UKPC 36: appeal concerned whether public comments made by the minister of finance of Belize about perceived financial irregularities on the part of a bank but had also exercised his statutory obligation to appoint members of an administrative appeal board to determine an appeal concerning those perceived irregularities;
  • acting (with Prof Dan Sarooshi KC) for claimants in a constitutional claim before the BVI Courts relating to the imposition of public registers of beneficial ownership of companies in the British Virgin Islands;
  • acting for Bail for Immigration Detainees as Intervener in R. (on the application of K) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 219;
  • R. (on the application of Countryside Alliance) v Attorney General [2005] EWHC 1677 (Admin);
  • R. (on the application of Jackson) v Attorney General [2005] UKHL 56.
Public international law

Angeline, widely regarded one of the leading international arbitration juniors, has acted as counsel on investment treaty claims for both investors and States. She led the team advising on three investment treaty claims against the Government of Belize arising out of the nationalisation of Belize Telemedia Limited which successfully settled. Angeline has regularly advised on the structuring of investments in order to gain investment treaty protection.

Representative examples of her work include:

  • acting for Montenegro in Addiko Bank AG v. Montenegro (ICSID Case No.ARB/17/35);
  • acting for British Caribbean Bank Limited on its successful claim against the Government of/J) Belize under the UK Belize Bilateral Investment Treaty (PCA Case No 2010-18), including acting on related constitutional court proceedings and injunction proceedings
  • acting for Dunkeld International Investment Limited in relation to a claim against the Government of Belize under the UK-Belize Bilateral Investment Treaty PCA Case Nos 2010—18), including acting on related injunction proceedings
  • acting on AES Corporation and Tau Power B.V. v Kazakhstan (ICSID Case No. ARB/10/16)advising Asian clients on potential investment treaty claims, including under the ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement, involving countries such as Indonesia and Myanmar

Career

Matrix Chambers, Barrister, 2015 to 2020

Allen & Overy LLP, Trainee, Associate, Senior Associate, Counsel 2003 to 2015

Awards
  • Legal Week, “Star at the Bar”, 2017
  • Advised on the 2016 Myanmar Arbitration Act that led to Myanmar being awarded the 2016 GAR Award for jurisdiction that has made great progress
  • AES Ust-Kamenogorsk v UST-Kamenogorsk JSC, which established the right of an English court to grant an antisuit injunction before arbitration proceedings had been commenced named in the FT Innovative Lawyers Report 2014 as a “stand-out” entry
  • Work on the Jivraj v Hashwani Supreme Court intervention named in the FT Innovative Lawyers Report 2012 as highly commended
  • Work on protecting clients from Belize’s anti-arbitration legislation named in the FT Innovative Lawyers Report 2011 as a “stand-out” entry
  • Named as ‘runner up’ in the Assistant Solicitor of the Year category by The Lawyer 2011
  • Inaugural annual IBA Pro Bono and Access to Justice Award 2010.
Publications
  • “Claims commissions and investment obligations” in Research Handbook on International Claims Commissions, Ed: Giorgetti, Pearsall and Ruiz-Fabri, (Elgar Publishing, December 2023)
  • Report on use of ESG contractual obligations and related disputes, ESG Subcommittee of the IBA Arbitration Committee, October 2023
  • An English Freezing Injunction – A Nuclear Weapon That Requires Careful Handling, The Journal of Enforcement of Arbitration Awards, Vol. 2, 2019, No 1;
  • The “Public Policy” Exception under the New York Convention: The English Law Approach to Allegations of Illegality and Lessons to be Drawn for Conflicts with International Law Obligations, American Review of International Arbitration, Vol. 30, 2019, No. 2;
  • Contributing author: The ICSID Convention, Rules and Regulations: A Practical Commentary (Elgar Publishing, 2019);
  • IBA Arb40, Editor for “Compendium of Arbitration Practice”, October 2017;
  • The Review of the Americas 2017, Global Arbitration Review: Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Central America and the Caribbean, co-author with Luis Gonzalez Garcia;
  • Contributor to the 24th edition of Russell on Arbitration, 2015;
  • IBA Arb 40, Editor for Report on “The Current State and Future of International Arbitration: Regional Perspectives”, August 2015;
  • Kluwer blog: “The relationship between arbitrators and parties: is the pure status theory dead and buried?” 17 June 2011 (co-author with Matt Gearing);
  • The World Arbitration and Mediation Review, ITA: “The law applicable to the award of interest: A roadmap through the maze” 2011, Volume 5, No. 1;
  • Kluwer blog: “The Public Policy Exception – Is the Unruly Horse Being Tamed in the Most Unlikely of Places?”, 17 March 2011 (co-author with Matt Gearing);
  • Global Arbitration Review, (Vol. 5 Iss. 5): “UK: Jivraj v Hashwani – the interplay between arbitration and antidiscrimination legislation”, 27 October 2010 (co-author with Mark Mansell).
Education
  • University of Oxford, The Queen’s College, 1996 to 1999