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International Services

Our broad range of work within different jurisdictions spans across a number of countries.

International Services

We provide a number of services for international clients.  Whether an overseas law firm, an international client doing business in the UK or for UK clients operating abroad, our expertise includes:

  • Advice and opinions on English Law
  • Management of their transactions, often working with the client’s local advisors as co-counsel
  • Dispute resolution through court, arbitration, mediation and other forums
  • Interpretation of contracts, dispute avoidance and risk management

Where the relevant parties, project or deal are based outside the UK, we are well-equipped to deal with situations like these.  We have offices only in the UK and we do not compete with law firms in their own jurisdictions. Instead, we have excellent contacts within local law firms in a number of countries, across every continent.  These relationships have been built up over time and are based on knowledge and trust.

Our broad range of work within different jurisdictions spans across a number of countries.  Please contact our International Liaison Partners for more details. 

Africa

Preparation of the tender document and contract conditions relating to the Vessel Construction, Single Point Mooring System and Subsea Pipeline in the Bouri Field, offshore, Libya.

Europe

Advising a continental European mobile telephone company on an issue relating to contracts within the English jurisdiction; advising them on their options and settling disputes before they reached formal procedures. 

United Kingdom

Assisting a UK-based multi-national company to find specialist advisors on combined insurance and insolvency issues under French law and the Treaty of Rome; liaising with the advisors and prosecuting claims on behalf of the client with the French advisors.

Middle East

Conducting disputes on behalf of a Middle Eastern conglomerate in connection with its decision to terminate the agreement with its contractor on a petro-chemical plant based in Qatar; handling the ICC arbitration that followed the termination; working with local counsel in the defendant’s home country (a Central European nation) to enforce the subsequent award.

Advising a Middle Eastern investment house in connection with injunction proceedings to restrain the completion of sale orders of GDR’s pending the resolution of an administration of a Middle Eastern Bank; working with the client’s local Middle Eastern lawyers in connection with the conflict of laws between England and their own jurisdiction.

Asia

English High Court litigation on behalf of an Asian Pacific group in a dispute with an English investment bank over the terms of a deal under which the Group was to purchase a business and take over the debt owed to the bank.

Advising a European headquartered engineering company in connection with potential disputes arising on a project in The Peoples’ Republic of China for the construction of a syngas plant where the contract was governed by English law; renegotiating parts of the contract; and settling the potential disputes. 

USA

Acting in High Court litigation on behalf of a United States multinational corporation in connection with disputes arising under an engineering contract for the construction of a project in the UK where the contractor was French and the governing law was in dispute.  English litigation could be chosen under international treaties.