Withers Worldwide

Recent work

• Acting for a Panamanian company which was the vehicle used to merge the interest of competing pay TV platforms in Greece in a LCIA arbitration which required the consideration of English law, Dutch law, Greek competition law and South African law and complex expert evidence of accounting for loss.
• Acting for a Swiss metals and commodities broker in an UNCITRAL arbitration against two former Macedonian state owned companies regarding a dispute as to the value of their minority shareholding in those companies following their privatisation.
• Acting for the same Swiss company in an LMAA arbitration in relation to a claim brought against it for non payment of monies alleged to be due in circumstances where it argues that the counterparty's breach of the European Waste Directive has caused it substantial loss.
• Acting for a Romanian company in an arbitration in a claim for $60 million against an oil trader concerning sales of crude oil to Romania in the 1990s.
• Acting for a Greek company in an ICC arbitration against a Jordan state owned enterprise relation to the termination of a 10-year worldwide agency and distribution agreement.
• Acting with our Intellectual Property team in an ICC arbitration involving the assessment of damages following from the non-payment of software royalties.
• Acting for the largest bank in India in an arbitration relating to a dispute over software used in 4,000 branches in India and abroad.
• Acting for Italian individuals in an ad hoc arbitration of a dispute relating to the destination of faulty assets. The applicable law was English law. The seat of the arbitration was in Rome.