International Judgment Enforcement & Offshore Asset Recovery

• Representation of Chevron in the successful enforcement of an investment treaty arbitration award against the Republic of Ecuador for US $100 million+ (with interest). Kobre & Kim’s efforts in executing an enforcement strategy, including asset tracing, efforts to identify seizure targets and the service of numerous discovery requests, culminated in Ecuador’s paying Chevron the entirety of the original award plus interest.
• Representation of an international shipping company in the enforcement of a US $75 million arbitration award, which involved litigation in the UK and contemplated action in Greece and several offshore jurisdictions, resulting in a successful settlement for the client.
• Representation of NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan’s predominant mobile telephone provider, in enforcing a US $1.2 billion London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) arbitration award against Tata Sons Ltd., the holding company for India’s top business conglomerate Tata Group, and culminating in a settlement involving full payment of the award to NTT DoCoMo.
• Representation of a major energy company in resisting enforcement of a fraudulent multibillion-dollar judgment, with strategies and litigation spanning three continents.
• Representation of an African company in pursuing claims and resisting enforcement of improperly obtained judgments across Europe and the Caribbean.
• Representation of a leading UK property investment fund in the successful challenge in the English High Court of a multimillion-dollar arbitration award.
• Representation of a major corporation in enforcing a judgment against a sovereign state.
• Advising a company seeking recovery for losses accrued through the sale of tax-based financial products.
• Representation of a foreign-based company in resisting a worldwide freezing injunction.
• Representation in connection with search and seizure orders relating to a multinational company pursuing claims of conspiracy and breach of fiduciary duty.
• Representation of a company serving proceedings in Iceland and seeking to freeze the defendant company’s Icelandic assets.

Financial Products & Services Litigation

• Acting in €700 million Commercial Court litigation arising out of alleged misselling of Euribor swaps.
• Representing special-purpose vehicles in defense to a £150 million claim brought by junior creditors in complex banking litigation arising out of international property financing and refinancing.
• Representation of trader against a major bank in respect of the entitlements generated by fixed-income trading.
• Representation of a former desk head in a claim against a foreign bank arising out of allocation of equity clients.
• Representing insurers in arbitration relating to avoidance of professional indemnity policy coverage in the context of a series of property valuations.
• Acting for insured in High Court claim against business interruption insurers arising out of arson at business premises.
• Representation of a finance director in a dispute relating to breach of fiduciary duty arising in the context of a management buyout (MBO).
• Representing pharmaceutical company in relation to shareholder demand arising in the context of cross-border acquisition.
• Representing European group of companies in cross-border dispute arising out corporate restructuring.

Joint Venture & Partnership Disputes

• Representation of developer in connection with litigation arising from acquisition of prime London development property.
• Representation of a U.S. software company in connection with recovery of license fees and potential proceedings in the English High Court for breach of a commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) contract by a foreign oil and gas company.
• Representation of professional services firm in a groundbreaking Supreme Court appeal relating to scope of members' liabilities under UK legislation.
• Representation of minority shareholders of an English industrial company in a shareholder dispute and unfair prejudice claims in face of various alleged instances of improper self-dealing by the majority shareholder and sensitivities from relations with bondholders, litigation with major customer, and an EU competition investigation.
• Representation of an individual in claims brought against members of a partnership relating to their involvement in multimillion-pound Ponzi fraud.

International Arbitration

• Representing a U.S. entity in an arbitration defending claims arising from reversal of negative trading positions.
• Acting for a hedge fund in successfully challenging an adverse International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitration award on grounds of serious irregularity.
• Representing Asian business in relation to arbitration concerning oil shipments.
• Acting in other arbitrations in relation to construction contracts, warranty claims, share-sale agreements, shipping contracts and partnership disputes.