Commercial Litigation lawyers

Rosie Wild

Partner

Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP

Rosli Dahlan

Partner & Head of Dispute Resolution

Rosli Dahlan Saravana Partnership

Ross A. Williams

Partner

Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP

Ross Bagley

Partner

Pryor Cashman LLP

Rotem Gilad

Partner

Meitar Law Offices

Rovine Chandrasekera

Partner and Head of Middle East Practice Rovine is an experienced international arbitration and commercial litigation partner with extensive experience advising clients on disputes with a focus on the Middle East. He helps to resolve disputes relating to fraud, asset recovery, sanctions and cross-border enforcement. Rovine has been involved in some of the most high-profile fraud, sanctions and asset recovery cases in the Middle East over the past 15 years. He is recognised as one of the leading international lawyers dealing with disputes in the Iraqi market and is well known to be a go to lawyer in relation to marine fraud and sanctions. Rovine remains focused on disputes with a Middle Eastern link whether litigated in the UK, Dubai or the Gulf Corporation Council (CGC) region. He has extensive experience in bringing cases in the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC). Whilst based in London he travels extensively to the Dubai region for his clients. Acting for a Canadian fund claimant in relation to a US$21m alleged trading fraud. This included criminal and civil proceedings in the UAE and court proceedings in Singapore. Acting for the Republic of Iraq as co-counsel with a US firm in ICSID proceedings defending claims of US$850m in respect to claims arising out of a regulatory agency’s decision to annul the claimants shares in Korek Telecom and subsequent government order to transfer these shares. Acting for the Ministry of Electricity, Iraq against an Indian contractor in LCIA proceedings pursing claims of US$650m in relation to the non-completion of a power plant project. Acting for a Middle East state aviation authority in ICC proceedings defending claims of US$20m in relation the termination of two management agreements. Acting for a US fund alongside Middle East counsel enforcing several judgments and awards against a major Indian conglomerate. This included enforcement proceedings in 14 jurisdictions over a two-year period. Acting for Emirates NBD bank in UAE proceedings in relation to court and then bankruptcy actions against a major UAE-based trading entity. Acting for a UAE shipping and trading company, Gulf Petrochem, in UK, UAE, Indian and Singapore proceedings against multiple claimants, defending allegations of fraud and appropriation. Acting for a Swiss-based oil trading company responding to an Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) investigation in relation to alleged sanction breaches. Acting for an Oman-based trading company in UAE court proceedings against its former joint venture partner in relation to claims of misappropriation of funds and wrongful asset valuation. This included subsequent enforcement proceedings in Cyprus. Advising David Haigh, the ex-managing director of Leeds United Football Club, on a DIFC claim initiated by the DIFC branch of a major Bahrain-based Islamic investment bank for AED23m on account alleged of breach of trust and money laundering. Acting for a UAE oil terminal in relation to a US$125m multi-jurisdictional dispute concerning title to two cargoes of oil discharged into terminals in the UAE. Acting for a leading UAE-based fund in relation to US$10m UAE proceedings brought against it due to the alleged actions of a rogue employee said to have misappropriated client funds. Acting for the State Trading Corporation, the transport arm of the government of Mauritius. The case related to the country’s previous and future transportation contracts and involved a review of contract terms, potential breaches of local procurement rules and potentially setting aside contracts because of undue influence or fraud.

Stewarts Law LLP

Rowena L. Garcia-Flores

Senior Partner

Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz Law Offices (ACCRALaw)

Roxana Catea

Of Counsel

Stratulat Albulescu Attorneys at Law

Roy Barendse

Roy Barendse is an Executive Consultant in our Dispute Resolution practice specialising in insurance related civil litigation and commercial litigation.

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Roy Barendse

Roy Barendse is an Executive Consultant in our Dispute Resolution practice specialising in insurance related civil litigation and commercial litigation.

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Royi Steinmetz

Mr. Steinmetz is a partner in FBC’s Litigation Department. His practice concentrates on corporate and securities-related litigation, intellectual property litigation, class actions, and commercial disputes. In addition, Mr. Steinmetz represents clients in administrative and judicial proceedings and litigation.

FISCHER (FBC & Co.)

Ruben Leeuwenburgh

Partner

Windt Le Grand Leeuwenburgh

Rubini Murugesan

Partner, Christopher & Lee Ong, Malaysia Commercial Litigation Construction & Projects Employment & Benefits

Christopher & Lee Ong

Rubén Rivas

Partner

Torres Legal

Rudolf Koch

Rudolf Koch, director at Richards, Layton & Finger, litigates complex corporate and commercial disputes in Delaware’s state and federal courts and is “known by the courts as a real litigator” (The Legal 500). His practice focuses on stockholder class actions, derivative lawsuits, contested mergers and acquisitions, corporate control disputes, complex contractual disputes, appraisal actions, and books and records actions. Rudy also advises managers, general partners, corporate boards, and committees with respect to governance, litigation, internal investigations, and control disputes. He has extensive trial and appellate experience. Rudy frequently sits on panels about Delaware corporate law, including at the Tulane Corporate Law Institute, and has been published in The Business Lawyer; The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation; Insights: The Corporate and Securities Law Advisor; Business Law Today; and the Cornell Law Review. He has also lectured on corporate governance, class action litigation, and executive compensation. PRACTICES Investigative & Demand Committees Arbitration & Mediation Corporate & Chancery Litigation Corporate Transactions Corporate Governance Mergers & Acquisitions Commercial Litigation

Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Rupert Bellinghausen

Linklaters

Rupert Ticehurst

Rupert is a partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution team. His practice is divided between trust, probate and commercial litigation and private client advisory work. He is a CEDR qualified mediator and acts as a trustee, executor and trust protector. Over the last 20 years Rupert has managed a large number of trust, probate and commercial disputes in England and offshore. His cases include removal of trustees, protectors and executors (and defending removal claims); variation of trusts; rectification of trusts; challenging trustees’ decisions and advising trustees on making decisions in contentious circumstances; challenging trustees’ fees; claims for breach of fiduciary duty, misrepresentation and fraud; advising trustees in relation to divorce; freezing orders; claims for breach of contract; passing off and breach of trademark. Rupert is individually ranked as a top-tier Band 1 practitioner in the Legal 500. He was ranked by Best Lawyers 2021 as a leading specialist in the area of Trusts and Personal Tax. He is also ranked in Band 1 for Private Wealth Disputes in the Chambers HNWI guide, and in Band 1 in the Chambers Global Guide for International Private Client: Contentious.

Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP

Russ Campbell

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Russell Reeves

Head of agricultural litigation

Thrings LLP

Rute Alves

Senior Counsel

PLMJ

Ruth Thurland

Ruth is an insolvency specialist acting for companies, individuals, directors, creditors and office holders in relation to all aspects of insolvency, both contentious and non-contentious. Ruth deals with both personal and corporate insolvency and acts for Insolvency Practitioners in relation to all aspects of their appointments. She advises both creditors and companies in financial difficulties on their options and is experienced in defending claims by office-holders and advising company directors in relation to proceedings for disqualification or breach of duty. Ruth’s recent experience includes: Appointment of administrators and receivers. Sale and purchase of businesses out of administration and liquidation. Pursuing and defending applications in relation to preference, transaction at undervalue, wrongful and fraudulent trading, transactions defrauding creditors, misfeasance and breach of duty. Asset recovery and preservation. Retention of title. Advising companies in financial difficulties, particularly those that are the subject of winding up petitions, including applications for validation orders. Advising directors on their duties and responsibilities. Dealing with director disqualification proceedings and applications for leave to act while disqualified.

Geldards LLP

Ryan Botkin

Partner

Botkin Chiarello Calaf PLLC

Ryan Hodinka

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Ryan Rosenblatt

Ryan’s practice includes numerous types of litigation, including complex, commercial, land use, business and interpersonal torts, sports, and bankruptcy. He has represented a variety of commercial and individual clients in both State and Federal Courts, as well as in Bankruptcy proceedings, AAA Arbitration, Mediation, proceedings before the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board and administrative proceedings before the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance. In addition, Ryan provides dedicated pro bono legal services to and volunteers in the Boston community. Ryan co-chairs Sullivan’s pro bono partnerships with the Victim Rights Law Center (VRLC) and with the Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP), coordinating Sullivan’s Associates in taking on pro bono cases with each group. As part of that work, Ryan has overseen dozens of successful cases in which Sullivan assisted pro bono clients form VRLC in obtaining restraining orders from various Massachusetts Courts, and pro bono clients from VLP in receiving unemployment benefits in the face of resistant former employers. He also regularly takes on such cases himself, directly representing clients in both instances, including a case in which he successfully argued a motion in Massachusetts Superior Court to protect a sexual assault victim from being required to provide her medical and mental health records to the defendant in the criminal case against him. Ryan also volunteers for the Boston NextGen Group, which is associated with the Tina’s Wish organization. Tina’s Wish is a charity founded in 2008 in memory of the Honorable Tina Brozman, former chief justice of the SDNY Bankruptcy Court who died two years after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. While attending Boston College Law School, Ryan was a member of the Journal of Law & Social Justice, won a Boston College Mock Trial Competition and participated in the school’s civil litigation clinic and its pro bono service trip to New Orleans. He also interned for Judge Raymond Brassard in the Massachusetts Superior Court and Judge Denise Casper in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Sullivan & Worcester LLP