Alistair Mackenzie

Practice Areas

Alistair’s practice spans a range of commercial litigation, with particular expertise in private international law disputes, group litigation, fraud, product liability and insurance. Clients often instruct Alistair on complex disputes for his experience across these areas. He is equally at home in trials and arbitrations as in dealing with complex points of law on appeal. He has acted in leading cases in the Supreme Court on numerous occasions and appeared as sole counsel in the Court of Appeal.

Recent cases include: Da Silva v Brazil Iron Limited [2025] EWHC 606 (KB) (jurisdiction, mining in Brazil); Magomedov v TPG Group and ors [2025] EWHC 59 (Comm) (unlawful means conspiracy); Abram and others v UEFA [2025] EWHC 483(KB) (jurisdiction, foreign act of state); Bodo v Shell Petroleum [2024] EWHC 276 (TCC) (environmental damage in Nigeria); Bravo v Amerisur Resources Limited [2023] EWHC 122 (KB) (liability for oil spill in Colombia); Stait v Cosmos Insurance [2022] EWCA Civ 1429 (jurisdiction in claims by military personnel); Clarke v PZU [2022] EWHC 488 (QB) (liability of insurers under foreign law); FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Brownlie [2021] UKSC 45 (jurisdiction and approach to foreign law).

Alistair was a contributing editor to ‘The Law of Property Damage’ (1st ed., Bloomsbury, 2023).

Career

Called 2013, Gray’s Inn

BA Hons (First Class, Law), Gonville and Caius College Cambridge

Professional Memberships

Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR), London Bar Association (LBA), Collective Redress Lawyers Association (CORLA)