Mining and metals

Our experience includes:

• Acting for a European commodity trading group in bringing claims against a buyer under two contracts for the supply of coal and in relation to subsequent enforcement proceedings (including worldwide freezing orders).
• Representing a UK based private equity investor as claimant in separate arbitration proceedings against an Indonesian supplier and a Singapore based buyer of coal shipments to China. The case involved a non-standard financing agreement with a hybrid arbitration clause for the SIAC to administer ICC proceedings.
• Acting for a British investor in a dispute under a Bilateral Investment Treaty against a CIS State arising from the expropriation of a mining project.
• Representing the investor in connection with an Investment Treaty (ICSID) claim against a former Yugoslav state following the failure to grant a full mining licence as required under national law.
• Advising an international steel group in LCIA arbitrations relating to claims of deficient quality against fraudulent certificates.
• Advising a leading steel supplier in its claims against the buyer of metals for the purchase price in a series of UNCITRAL arbitrations valued around US$20 million.  
• Representing an Indian conglomerate in a London-seated ICC arbitration against Middle East state-owned company in relation to non-delivery of Calcium Petroleum Coke.
• Advising an Eastern European mining company on an ICC arbitration seeking to recover US$3 million paid in shares under an investment contract to develop a nickel mining operation in Indonesia.
• Acting for a UK-based private equity firm in a US$1 billion ICSID investment treaty arbitration claim against the Russian Federation in relation to an expropriated mine.
• Representing a Middle Eastern commodity trader in a US$66 million Geneva-seated SCIA (Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration) arbitration in relation to the sale of LPG.