William Ballantyne

Barrister specialising in Arab laws.

Specialist areas of practice concern Arab laws, comparative commercial law, arbitration. Important cases include: Dubai Bank Ltd v Galadari (High Court), (Expert); Westacre Investments v Jogoimport (High Court), (Expert); State of Kuwait v Getty Oil (New York), (Counsel for Kuwait); Aminoil v State of Kuwait, (arbitration), (Counsel for Aminoil); Westland Helicopters v Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, (arbitration), (Counsel for Westland); Kuwait Oil Tanker Cov Albadr & Ors (expert); NECC v Lucent (US New Jersey) (Expert Saudi law); APEX v FI Call & Ors [2013] (Saudi law); Standard Bank PLC v EFAL and Ors [2014] (Kuwaiti law); Kuwait Finance House v David John Teece [2014/2015] (Bahraini law); plus arbitrations as chairman and arbitrator.

Dulwich College; Trinity Hall, Cambridge (MA).