Ranked in 4 Practice Areas
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Band 3

Aviation

London (Bar)

11 Years Ranked

4

Band 4

Banking & Finance

London (Bar)

9 Years Ranked

6

Band 6

Commercial Dispute Resolution

London (Bar)

12 Years Ranked

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About

Provided by Alexander Milner KC

UK Bar

Practice Areas

Commercial litigation and arbitration, with wide experience of civil fraud, aviation, banking, financial services, mining and energy-related disputes.

Regularly appears before the High Court, Court of Appeal and arbitration tribunals.

A Russian speaker, he has appeared in many significant cases emerging from Russia and the former Soviet Union such as Tatneft v Bogolyubov, Yukos Finance v Lynch, Bank St Petersburg v Arkhangelsky, Mezhprombank v Pugachev and Berezovsky v Abramovich, as well as numerous confidential arbitrations. These are often heavy, multi-jurisdictional disputes involving extensive factual and expert evidence and issues of foreign law.

He also has wide experience of applications for injunctions and of claims to enforce foreign judgments and arbitration awards, including a $2.5 billion claim by Naftogaz of Ukraine against Gazprom and, currently, a $10 billion claim against the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

His aviation practice includes leasing, financing, insurance, slot regulation, injunctions and passenger claims. He also sits as an arbitrator and has been appointed to numerous tribunals seated in London, Moscow and Singapore.

He is a registered practitioner at the Dubai International Financial Centre.

Career

Called 2006, Silk 2022.

Professional Memberships

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Russian and CIS Arbitration Network; COMBAR.

Publications

Lessons from Huawei v ZTE (Italian Antitrust Review, 2017); Liability for property fraud (Journal of Professional Negligence, 2017); Liability for negligent investment advice following extraordinary market turmoil (Journal of Professional Negligence, 2013); Advantages and disadvantages of arbitration CIS disputes in Western Europe (Transnational Dispute Management, 2012); Regulation EC 261/2004 and ‘extraordinary circumstances’ Air and Space Law, 2009).

Personal

King’s College, Cambridge (BA Modern and Medieval Languages, first class with distinction, first in university; choral scholar).

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