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Mishcon de Reya LLP

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Mishcon de Reya LLP‘s ’international arbitration team is going from strength to strength‘. The practice invested heavily in its partner-level offering during 2022, with energy disputes specialist Alexander Slade and ’superstar‘ Greg Falkof recruited from Vinson & Elkins RLLP and Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP, respectively. ’Brilliant‘ practice head Louis Flannery KC has extensive international commercial arbitration experience; Zachary Segal’s track record includes numerous ad hoc and institutional arbitrations; and managing associate Heidi Walsh is ‘detail oriented and very reactive’. Within the firm’s associate pool, Paul Stokes is a recent hire from Enyo Law LLP, while Jack Burstyn is ‘very committed’.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The Mishcon international arbitration team is going from strength to strength. They have some first-rate talent in their team and are developing real depth to the group.'

  • 'Clinical in the running of cases, and clients have full confidence that the firm is on top of every detail of the case.’

  • ‘Very strong team with the brilliant Louis Flannery KC heading it.'

  • ‘Greg Falkof is a superstar. He is an intellectual powerhouse and master strategist, and has the complete respect of his clients, opponents and tribunals.'

  • ‘Greg Falkof is completely committed to his clients and achieving the best outcome. His clients trust him blindly. There is no one who is more on top of the detail of a case than Greg - a go-to person for any international arbitration.’

  • ‘Alexander Slade is a great lawyer - always available to support clients, and he has strategic vision, deep knowledge of construction disputes, and an easygoing manner.’

  • ‘Alexander Slade is an outstanding lawyer with a firm grasp of oil and gas exploration and production sharing contracts. His style of argument is unique and very convincing.’

  • 'Jack Burstyn is a great worker who is very committed, and Heidi Walsh is detail oriented and very reactive.’

Key clients

  • Federal Republic of Nigeria
  • Petraco Oil Company
  • Diag Human
  • The Union of India

Work highlights

  • Representing the Federal Republic of Nigeria in seeking to set aside an arbitration award worth $11bn, on the basis that the arbitration award was procured by fraud.
  • Representing Diag Human and Josef Stava in defending the setting aside of an arbitration award worth approximately $600m.
  • Representing the Union of India in challenging a partial arbitral award, which related to a dispute over an offshore oilfield concession.

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Greg Falkof

Greg Falkof

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Greg is a Partner in the International Arbitration Practice. He has a particular focus on the effective resolution of disputes in the energy, resources, transport, engineering, infrastructure and construction sectors, as well as international investment arbitration and public international law. Greg is a member of the ICC Global Commission for Arbitration and ADR (appointed by the ICC UK committee), the world’s premier multi-jurisdictional forum for advancing the practice of international arbitration. He's the co-founder and a former Director of Delos Dispute Resolution, an independent arbitration institution that promotes quality, flexibility, and time and cost efficiency in the resolution of international disputes. Greg has represented both claimants and respondents in large complex international arbitrations worth billions of dollars, and before major arbitral institutions including the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, CIETAC, LMAA as well as ad hoc arbitration proceedings. He also sits as an arbitrator, both as a party-appointee and appointed by the main arbitration institutes as sole arbitrator (in expedited or standard proceedings). Greg has acted for: parties in commercial and investment arbitrations in a range of sectors including construction, energy, infrastructure, transport, commodities, mining and natural resources, real estate, telecoms and international trade; State-State disputes pursuant to public international law, including conducting advocacy before eminent international tribunals; and both investors and State claimants in investment treaty arbitrations. Before joining Mishcon, Greg was a partner in the international arbitration practice of a global law firm. Prior to his legal career, Greg qualified as a construction engineer and worked as a professional project manager on large, complex construction projects in the UK and South Africa.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Louis Flannery KC

Other key lawyers

Alexander Slade, Greg Falkof, Zachary Segal, Heidi Walsh, Paul Stokes, Jack Burstyn