Khadija Leuenberger

Practice Areas

Khadija specialises in commercial litigation and international arbitration across areas including banking and finance, sanctions, international trade, commodities, energy, oil and gas. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Recent experience includes working on complex derivatives trading and margin call disputes and a multi-million-dollar dispute relating to swap transactions affected by Russian sanctions.

Experienced in handling regulatory and financial services work, investigations, corporate governance and ESG compliance matters. She is familiar with all major international arbitration rules including the LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL, DIAC, SIAC, HKIAC and the Swiss Arbitration Rules. She is a registered practitioner with the DIFC Courts in Dubai.

Prior to joining 36 Stone Khadija was Senior Legal Counsel at Credit Suisse specialising in cross-border legal and regulatory matters, with a particular focus on the UK and Middle Eastern markets. She also worked on high-profile cross-border FCA and HMRC investigations. In a previous role, Khadija was Counsel at a major law firm in Dubai where her practice focused on commercial litigation, international arbitration and all dispute-related work before the DIFC Courts.

She has extensive international experience working with foreign lawyers, in-house counsel, experts and professionals from diverse backgrounds, in all aspects of dispute resolution and in an advisory capacity.

Career

Call 2006 (Lincoln’s Inn – Buchannan Prize Winner; Eastham Scholar)

Professional Memberships

• The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Ciarb)

• The Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR)

• Arbitral Women

• Swiss Arbitration Association

Personal

• MSt New College, Oxford

• LLM (Distinction) King’s College London

• BA (Honours) SOAS, London