International arbitration

McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP

Representing state-owned entities, multinational corporations and financial institutions, McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP‘s London team is experienced in arbitrations that involve Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Its sector expertise covers healthcare, life sciences, financial services, telecoms, infrastructure, and energy and natural resources. Andrew Savage ’deserves superstar status’ and Michael Darowski focuses on international commercial and investment arbitrations. Romilly Holland represents telecoms, hospitality, and energy and natural resources clients. Kimberley Smith and Edward Perkins are ‘both future stars’.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

‘McDermott Will & Emery has developed into a very strong class act under the leadership of the superb Andrew Savage.’
‘Provides a simply incredible service to clients that is second to none.’
‘The McDermott team performs exceptionally well. They always do the utmost to secure a win for their clients.’
‘Andrew Savage is excellent. He deserves superstar status. He is absolutely dedicated to his clients, a superb tactician, and a fantastic lawyer overall.’
‘Andrew Savage is hugely experienced, creative, tenacious, an intellectual powerhouse, and very well connected.’
‘Alongside his own personal abilities, one of the main achievements of Andrew Savage is that he has built up a team of very impressive senior associates. These include Kimberley Smith and Edward Perkins, who are both future stars.’
‘Michael Darowski's unique skills are his encyclopedic case knowledge, forensic attention to detail, and strategic thinking to connect moving parts of multiple complex cases running in parallel.’
‘Michael Darowski is trustworthy and always displays the highest values and professional ethics in everything that he does. He is well respected by his peers and considered a very safe pair of hands in the world of dispute resolution and international arbitration in particular.’

Key clients

Petrochemical Holdings
Crescent Petroleum
AIC
Amnesty International
Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of the Republic of Albania

Work highlights

Acting for Crescent Petroleum in commercial arbitration against National Iranian Oil Company in relation to a 25-year gas supply agreement.
Successfully represented AIC, a Nigerian construction company, in the enforcement of a $160m arbitration award secured against the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria .
Representing Taylor Thomson in claims before an arbitral tribunal against Persistence Technologies (and associated individuals), which concern bribery and the mis-selling of Persistence’s crypto token, XPRT.