Simon Milnes KC

Simon specialises in advocacy and strategic advice on international commercial disputes, particularly in the fields of energy and commodities, shipping, shipbuilding and offshore installation construction, insurance/reinsurance, infrastructure and projects, shareholder/post-M&A, and civil fraud. His caseload typically includes contractual claims and fraud-related disputes requiring interim relief, including freezing and anti-suit injunctions.

Asia is a particular focus of Simon’s work. He speaks and reads Chinese (Mandarin), which he uses when working with Chinese-language documents and presenting evidence. He was based in Singapore from 2010 to 2016 and has acted in arbitrations seated in Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, as well as in the UK and Caribbean jurisdictions. He is experienced in handling and presenting submissions involving other systems of law and in cross-examining expert witnesses.

Simon has acted as lead or sole counsel in numerous arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, and PCA, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations.