UK Bar
Practice Areas
Rob has a broad commercial practice, with a particular focus on banking and finance, civil fraud, and general commercial disputes. He has been instructed in multiple cases in The Lawyer’s ‘Top 20’, including a year-long trial. His recent instructions include: the Boohoo securities class action (defending Section 90A FSMA proceedings); EuroChem v SocGen & ING (defending non-payment of a performance bond on the basis that the claimants were owned and/or controlled by a sanctioned Russian oligarch); PIFSS v Al Rajaan (defending a Swiss private bank in a US$900m claim based on alleged payment of secret commissions); APS & Alpine v Sumitomo (proceedings in the Supreme Court of Bermuda seeking an appraisal of the ‘fair value’ of shares in a NYSE-listed pharmaceutical company); RAKIA v Azima and Al Sadeq & Quzmar v Dechert (defending a law firm against various allegations of wrongdoing including computer hacking, procurement of a Court judgment by fraud, and human rights abuses); and AMMENA v AML (acting for Aston Martin Lagonda in multiple related sets of proceedings against its Middle Eastern distributor, involving debt claims and allegations of bad faith). For more details, see Rob’s profile here: https://www.oeclaw.co.uk/barristers/profile/robert-harris
Career
Called 2020 (Inner Temple).
Professional Memberships
COMBAR; YFLA.
Publications
‘MWB: Modifications, Wrangles, and Bypassing’ [2018] LMCLQ 441, which has been cited by the Singapore Court of Appeal.
Personal
City Law School (BPTC – Outstanding – ranked 1st in year); Keble College, Oxford (BA (Hons) with Senior Status in Jurisprudence – First Class); New College, Oxford (BA (Hons) in PPE – First Class).