Rupert Reed

Queen’s Counsel specialising in commercial and financial disputes, with a strong focus on real property and its development, management and finance, as well as fraud, banking, shareholder disputes and professional liability.  His practice in England is primarily in the Commercial Court and Chancery Division of the High Court and the Court of Appeal.  He has acted in many of the leading cases in the Courts of the Dubai International Finance Centre and has a strong interest in litigation and arbitration in the Middle East or in England involving parties from the region.  He is familiar with the laws of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other Arab civil law jurisdictions. 

Lincoln College, Oxford (BA Hons History and French, 1st Class with Distinction); Downing College, Cambridge (MA Hons Law, Double 1st Class); Harvard Law School (LLM, Kennedy Scholar).