Fountain Court Chambers

Barrister practising commercial litigation and international arbitration, with wide experience of civil fraud, aviation, banking, financial services, mining and energy-related disputes. Regularly appears before the High Court, Court of Appeal and arbitration tribunals.

A Russian speaker, he has appeared in many significant cases emerging from Russia and the former Soviet Union such as Tatneft v Bogolyubov, Yukos Finance v Lynch, Bank St Petersburg v Arkhangelsky, Mezhprombank v Pugachev and Berezovsky v Abramovich, as well as numerous confidential arbitrations. These are often heavy, multi-jurisdictional disputes involving extensive factual and expert evidence and issues of foreign law.

He also has wide experience of applications for injunctions and of claims to enforce foreign judgments and arbitration awards, including a $2.5 billion claim by Naftogaz of Ukraine against Gazprom and the $10 billion dispute between Process & Industrial Developments Ltd and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

His aviation practice includes leasing, financing and insurance, slot regulation, injunctions and passenger claims.

He also sits as an arbitrator, and has been appointed to numerous tribunals seated in London, Moscow and Singapore.

He is a registered practitioner at the Dubai International Financial Centre.

Called 2006, Lincoln’s Inn. Silk 2022.

Russian, French, Italian.

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; COMBAR; Russian and CIS Arbitration Network.

Eton College; King’s College, Cambridge (2003 MA Modern and Medieval Languages First Class Hons with Distinction); City University, London (2005 CPE Distinction).