Jamsheed Peeroo

Jamsheed acts as counsel, arbitrator or expert and practises in England & Wales, Mauritius, the DIFC and the AIFC.

The core of Jamsheed’s work revolves around international commercial and investor-State arbitration, complex commercial, financial and corporate cross-border litigation and arbitration-related court proceedings.

Jamsheed has worked on numerous high-profile matters in various sectors, including infrastructure, offshore corporations and trusts, mergers and acquisitions, hotel and tourism, shipping and aviation, insurance, pharmaceutical, construction, telecoms and IT, energy, and mining.

Notable cases

Resisting the setting aside of an award in a multi-jurisdictional dispute involving parallel arbitrations and parallel court proceedings: Flashbird Ltd v Compagnie de Securite Privee et Industrielle SARL [2021] UKPC 32]

Obtaining an order against an award debtor to post security in the full amount of the award pending set-aside proceedings.

President of a London-seated ICC tribunal in a dispute in the IT and Telecommunications sector of a major Asian economy

LCIA arbitration of a multi-million USD shareholder dispute relating to oil and gas infrastructure in a West-African port

Expert Witness under English law in a multi-million USD claim under a consolidated loan agreement and surety agreements

Applying for a stay of proceedings under s.9 of the Arbitration Act on the basis of a DIFC-LCIA arbitration clause signed after entry into force of Dubai Decree 34/2021

He is a co-Chair of the COMBAR Africa Committee and a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration.

Jamsheed is bilingual (English and French) and handles both common law and civil law issues.