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Seladore Legal

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Seladore Legal

About

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Seladore Legal has a vast wealth of collective experience at all levels of the English higher courts and the team are veterans of complex multijurisdictional disputes, with wide experience of coordinating parallel cross-border litigations, and proceedings before a number of courts. The firm also has considerable experience in acting for clients under all major sets of arbitration rules, and has a complementary corporate crime, internal investigations, and regulatory practice led by partner Dan Hudson.

The firm does not undertake transactional work, leaving it able to pursue claims where necessary against large financial institutions, multinational corporations and government entities as the case may be. It takes a focused, partner-driven approach, developing and pursuing effective solutions for clients faced with the most difficult and challenging problems.

Seladore's team includes some of London’s most experienced and acclaimed commercial disputes practitioners who have worked on many of the biggest and most significant disputes of recent years. The firm was founded in 2020 by highly experienced former Herbert Smith Freehills lawyers Simon Bushell and Gareth Keillor. Simon spent 26 years at Herbert Smith Freehills, having established its Russia and CIS disputes practice and led its civil fraud team; he subsequently became Chair of the Litigation Department at Latham & Watkins in London. All of Seladore’s partners have trained and worked at Herbert Smith Freehills.

Clients (10)

  • Hellicorp Investments
  • Sian Participation Corp (in liquidation)
  • FRP Advisory
  • Antoine Massad
  • The liquidators of Kidman Asset Management (in liquidation)
  • 9089900 Canada Inc.
  • His Excellency, President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi of Mozambique
  • Tariq Hamoodi
  • Whiteleave Holdings Limited & Vladimir Potanin
  • SGS Group / Ziyavudin Magomedov

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What the Team is Known For

Seladore Legal specialises in high-end commercial litigation, civil fraud and arbitrations. The firm has supplementary capabilities in the investigations space and is regularly engaged by a range of high net worth individuals, shareholders and private companies. It has a strong client base hailing from the CIS.

Notable practitioners

Simon Bushell is a senior partner at Seladore Legal. With over three decades of experience, Simon boasts an impressively wide client base.

Work Highlights

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  • Seladore Legal acted for Ziyavudin Magomedov and a number of his companies in a very high-stakes dispute concerning control FESCO, as well as a port on the Black Sea.

Strengths

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  • Seladore take a highly strategic approach.

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  • Seladore are serious analytical lawyers with a fantastic feel for case management.

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  • Seladore manage the challenging personalities on the client side well.

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  • Seladore are genuinely specialist and deliver a bespoke service.

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Members

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  • Simon Bushell

  • Daniel Hudson

  • Kevin Kilgour

  • Gareth Keillor

  • Gary Milner-Moore

  • Laurence Shore

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