Richard Masefield

Roger Masefield has 30 years’ litigation experience in all aspects of commercial law (including arbitration, banking, civil fraud, energy, and insurance / reinsurance). Since taking silk in 2013, he has been instructed as leading counsel in a wide range of high profile and high value matters, including claims on behalf of the Libyan Investment Authority against both Goldman Sachs and Societe Generale (each worth more than one billion dollars); claims in the BVI against companies owned and controlled by Isabel dos Santos (involving a two billion dollar freezing injunction); claims on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria against JP Morgan (worth in excess of 875 million dollars); and claims brought against reinsurers for business interruption losses arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic (worth hundreds of millions of dollars). Over the last few years, Roger Masefield has appeared regularly (in person and by video-link) in the English Commercial Court and Court of Appeal; in the High Court and Court of Appeal in the British Virgin Islands; and in the Court of Appeal in Dubai. He has also been instructed as lead Counsel in a number of heavyweight international arbitrations.