A 13-year battle for control of a Turkish mobile telephone operator arising from financing and restructuring during the Turkish banking crisis. The principal litigation and trial was in the British Virgin Islands and involved 8 appeals to the Privy Council in London. There were related arbitration proceedings in Geneva and Vienna and litigation to enforce arbitration awards in multiple jurisdictions. The case was the first to establish the parameters of the widely-used European security-enforcement measure of appropriation.

Investigation relating to transatlantic regulatory enforcement proceedings against a global investment bank, involving anti-money laundering systems and controls, arising from so-called “mirror trading” of Russian blue-chip stocks.

Covid-19 and M&A: in a locked-box transaction, could a multibillion Euro M&A transaction be terminated before Closing as a consequence of measures taken by the target company to respond to the pandemic? Arising, fought (in international arbitration) and resolved during a 10-month period of lockdown across Europe.

The first major UK case of the global financial crisis: suing the UK Government in respect of its nationalization of Northern Rock Bank following the first UK bank run for 150 years. The case involved arguing (successfully) that the nationalization had breached the human rights of the client, an investment fund based outside the UK which was the largest shareholder at the time of nationalization.