His commercial practice includes charterparty and other shipping disputes, arbitrations including in particular LMAA, LCIA and BIT arbitrations, and also carriage by road (CMR) cases.
In addition to commercial/contractual disputes, he also undertakes significant chancery-commercial cases, and has wide experience of domestic and international claims arising from shareholders’ and directors’ disputes and misfeasance, and share sale warranty claims.
Aidan has substantial experience of claims, including claims potentially running to in excess of £300 million, arising from the recent Libor-rigging events and from related interest rate hedging product sales. He also has a particular interest in similar claims arising from Forex-rigging, and has developed substantial market knowledge in that context.
His practice also includes significant volumes of domestic commercial fraud and asset recovery of all types, and fraud perpetrated by NHS contractors (he acts for a number of Health Authorities and associated bodies). He has substantial experience of urgent interim relief applications, particularly freezing injunctions and injunctions concerning restrictive covenants in both employment and share-sale contexts.
