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Simon
Nesbitt
Partner, London
simon.nesbitt@hoganlovells.com
Simon Nesbitt is a partner in Hogan Lovells international arbitration group. He originally qualified as an English solicitor with Lovells in London in 1994. Following a period on secondment in-house to a major client of the firm, he moved to Lovells' Paris office. While in Paris, Simon took the French Bar examinations and was admitted as an avocat à la cour in 1997. He returned to London in 1998 and has since focused exclusively on international arbitration. His arbitration experience extends to cases conducted under all of the major institutional rules, including ICSID, ICC, SIAC and LCIA as well as ad hoc arbitrations. He is experienced in all aspects of court proceedings ancillary to arbitration proceedings, such as pre-arbitral injunctions, and challenges to and the enforcement of arbitral awards. He acts for clients from a wide range of industry sectors, including oil and gas, banking and financial services, commodities trading and distribution, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and telecoms industry. Simon speaks fluent English, French and Italian and is admitted as a solicitor-advocate.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Acting for major international oil company in an ad hoc arbitration under Nigerian law against a Nigerian state entity, relating to a costs allocation and cargo lifting dispute under a Production Sharing Contract.
- Acting for Swiss aluminium trading group on the worldwide enforcement of a US$100 million arbitral award made under the Swiss Chamber of Commerce Rules against a Russian manufacturing plant.
- Acting in arbitration under the ICC rules on behalf of Chang Beverages, part of the major Thai beverage group, in US$1.8 billion claim for breach of Singapore-based joint venture with Danish brewer Carlsberg.
- Acting in ICC arbitration for major Italian foodstuffs producer, arising out of a substantial investment in Ghana, in a manufacturing and distribution contract dispute with a Hong Kong counterparty.
- Obtaining pre-arbitral court injunctions for international brewer SABMiller against East African Breweries Limited to prevent acquisition of a rival brewery in Tanzania in breach of joint venture, and representing SABMiller in subsequent ICC arbitration.
- Representing Alstom in ICC-rules arbitration, administered by SIAC in Singapore, against PRC company Insigma Technology and successfully obtaining US$27M award for breach of pollution control technology licence agreement
- Six concurrent arbitrations under the LCIA rules on behalf of Swiss-based commodities group in a US$200 million dispute arising out of investments in alumina production facilites and mines in Kazakhstan, with related court proceedings in the British Virgin Islands, Russia, Kazakhstan, Germany, Belgium, Holland and the USA.
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