An ‘incredibly impressive firm with a deep bench of talent’, Kennedys expanded its wider commercial dispute resolution client offering with the September 2023 hire of tax disputes and investigations expert Andy Brown from Bird & Bird LLP. Practice leader Ben Aram focuses on heavyweight cases involving cross-border dimensions, as well as matters involving conflicts of laws, while Iskander Fernandez is white-collar crime and investigations head. Danny Steel ’knows when to fight and when to settle’ and Kavan Bakhda routinely acts in complex commercial disputes. Other names to note are Darren Bradshaw, Alexander Scard and Rhys Tebbett, along with Daisy Burgess and Alexandra Miller.
Testimonials
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‘An incredibly impressive firm with a deep bench of talent.’
‘A hidden gem for commercial disputes.’
Key clients
- HDI Global Specialty
- Allied World Assurance Company
Work highlights
- Acting for the former chairman of Otkritie Bank in connection with refinancing transactions, which were entered into by the then-largest private bank in Russia in 2017, ahead of its near-total collapse and takeover by the Central Bank of Russia.
- Acting for Allied World Assurance Company and Nancy Erika Smith, in relation to a $500m dispute that concerns American businessman Zia Chishti, who has brought claims in the US and threatened proceedings in England.