Ranked in 2 Practice Areas
4

Band 4

Chancery: Commercial

London (Bar)

2 Years Ranked

5

Band 5

Commercial Dispute Resolution

London (Bar)

16 Years Ranked

Ranked in Guides

About

Provided by Robert-Jan Temmink KC

UK Bar

Practice Areas

Robert has a wide-ranging and international practice in commercial and chancery law. He is known for being a talented and intellectually-agile advocate equally at home in fraud and financial services cases as in aviation and shipping matters. He has a strong practice in construction, energy and infrastructure disputes and is often asked to advise and act in complex insolvency and cross-border actions.

Robert is called to the bar in the Eastern Caribbean and Trinidad & Tobago and has acted in cases in the BVI, Cayman and the Turks & Caicos islands. He is a registered advocate in the Abu Dhabi Global Market and was one of the first UK advocates registered to practice in the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. He is also called to the bar in Northern Ireland and as a Foreign Legal Consultant in the State of New York.

Robert has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 2007 and has been appointed as an arbitrator in ICC, LCIA, LMAA and English arbitrations under the Arbitration Act. He is a registered arbitrator in the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the Asia International Arbitration Centre, the Dubai International Arbitration Centre and has acted as Counsel in a wide variety of institutional arbitrations dealing with commercial cases in all of his core areas of practice.

Robert is an accredited mediator and has conducted numerous commercial mediations. He is a TECBAR-accredited mediator and adjudicator and has been appointed as an adjudicator in several large construction-related matters. He acted as Counsel in the Court of Appeal’s decision concerning stays of adjudication and enforcement in the event of a party’s insolvency.

Career

Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Called to the Bars of Eastern Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago, New York (FLC) & Northern Ireland. Admitted to the Dubai International Financial Centre Court; Abu Dhabi General Market. ADR Group Accredited Mediator; TECBAR Accredited Mediator, Adjudicator, Arbitrator & Dispute Board Member; Asia International Arbitration Centre Arbitrator; HKIAC Panel Member.

Professional Memberships

ChBA, COMBAR, TECBAR, LMAA.

Publications

Contributing author of LexisNexis Special Report: Financial Services Regulation & Litigation; Lissack & Horlick on Bribery; Investing in Emerging Markets.

Personal

Trustee: Temple Music Trust; King's Singers Foundation; St Paul’s Cathedral School. Director: Merchant Taylors’ Catering Company; Court Member of Merchant Taylors' Company.

Languages Spoken

Working knowledge of French, Italian, Russian, Spanish.

Education

Trinity College, Cambridge

(MA)

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