Substantial papers, written to be cited.
Longer-form analysis of arbitration, fraud, insolvency and regulatory practice — written for the general counsel and boards who need more than a headline.
Enforcing Awards Against Sovereign States
An arbitral award against a sovereign state is, on its own, a piece of paper. Its value depends entirely on whether — and where — it can be enforced, a question too many claimants leave until after the tribunal has ruled.
Read →Unfair Prejudice Petitions in Practice
Section 994 of the Companies Act 2006 gives minority shareholders a remedy for unfairly prejudicial conduct — a broad, fact-sensitive standard that has produced a correspondingly broad body of case law over the past two decades.
Read →Cross-Border Restructuring After Insolvency Reform
Recent reform to the UK's cross-border insolvency framework has changed the practical calculus for creditors coordinating recovery across multiple jurisdictions, particularly where the debtor's assets are concentrated outside the UK.
Read →Prudential Regulation After the Latest PRA Rulebook Changes
The PRA's most recent rulebook changes recalibrate capital and governance expectations for banks and insurers in ways that will shape supervisory conversations for the next several years, even where the headline capital requirements have not moved dramatically.
Read →Commercial Fraud Litigation
This chapter, contributed to a wider practitioner text on commercial fraud, sets out the firm's approach to forensic reconstruction — the process of rebuilding a disputed transaction from documentary and electronic evidence to establish what actually happened, as distinct from what either party now claims happened.
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