Experience

• • The anchor investor of a $2.5 billion private equity fund in a dispute with the fund’s general partner regarding a variety of fund management issues.
  • Two Irish companies, lessors of two aircraft operating leases to Vietnam Airlines, with respect to their specific rights and obligations in the chapter 11 bankruptcies of their parent companies.
  • Petro Poroshenko, the fifth President of Ukraine, in his victory in the High Court of England & Wales, successfully challenging the jurisdiction of the English courts to hear a $250+ million conspiracy claim brought against him and the former head of the National Bank of Ukraine, related to the nationalization and bail-in of PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest bank.
  • A private equity fund in a variety of cross-border disputes arising from the collapse of the Abraaj Group, previously the largest private equity firm in the Middle East, including handling a 3 month fraud trial in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
  • A large Russian manufacturer of chemical products and several related defendants in proceedings brought before The High Court of Ireland by a number of shareholders of a Russian major company seeking damages in tort in relation to a challenge to jurisdiction and defending anti-suit injunction and anti-enforcement injunction applications filed by the plaintiffs.