Kyle practises in all areas of Chambers’ work, with a particular emphasis on commercial litigation and arbitration. His experience covers banking and financial services, shipping and international trade, insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence, conflicts of law, international arbitration and general commercial litigation. Current and recent instructions include: Property Alliance Group v the Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, a banking dispute involving LIBOR manipulation and the mis-selling of interest rate swaps; Stemcor UK Limited v Global Steel Holdings Limited & Mr Pramod Mittal, a US$142 million claim against the guarantors of a Bosnian company engaged in the production of steel; and RC Cayman Holdings Limited v Michael Ryan, a high value commercial dispute before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands arising out of the sale of the Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman Hotel. Kyle also has experience of acting in arbitral proceedings under a variety of different institutional rules (including LCIA, ICC, the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration and Ad Hoc proceedings under the Arbitration Act 1996). His recent work in this field includes acting in a LCIA arbitration relating to the construction of a US$2bn fertilizer plant in Nigeria and a substantial ICC arbitration arising out of the sale of a network of telecoms companies in the Caribbean.

Pembroke College, University of Cambridge (BA (Hons) Law (Double First)); Harvard Law School (LLM); Daniel Stewart’s and Melville College, Edinburgh.