Richard Mott

Practice Areas

Richard has a broad commercial litigation and arbitration practice, including civil fraud, banking, energy, financial services / regulatory and general commercial disputes.

Richard is currently acting, amongst other cases: with Camilla Bingham KC, defending Morgan Stanley against an economic tort claim for €54 million brought by Frasers Group Plc; with Lord Wolfson KC, defending a fraud claim of $280m and challenging jurisdiction; with Camilla Bingham KC, for the claimant in proceedings commenced in Bermuda arising out of an alleged unlawful means conspiracy to appropriate an interest in an African metals mine, claiming hundreds of millions of dollars; with Anna Boase KC, acting for an African bank resisting significant damages claims under a sale and purchase agreement; as sole counsel, for one of the defendants in the high-profile Public Institution for Social Security v Al Rajaan & Ors; and for the Financial Conduct Authority, in three confidential Enforcement cases involving alleged dishonesty and lack of integrity in relation to the pensions sector. Other recent cases include acting (with Laurence Rabinowitz KC) for the private equity defendant in Lopesan Touristik SA v Apollo European Principal Finance Fund ([2020] EWHC 2642 (Comm) and [2020] EWHC 2829 (Comm)).