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Philip Riches KC
Work Department
- Banking and financial services
- Civil fraud and asset tracing
- Commercial disputes
- Commodities
- Energy and natural resources
- International arbitration
- Jurisdiciton, conflicts and enforcement
- Private international law
- Public international law
- Shipping
Position
Philip is recognised as a leading barrister in international commercial dispute resolution. He appears regularly in the English courts and in international arbitrations in England and overseas.
Philip has a strong practice in complex, high-value commercial disputes across a range of business sectors. His work has been particularly focused in recent years on civil fraud disputes, often requiring urgent injunction applications, energy disputes and disputes relating to the enforcement of foreign arbitration awards. Philip’s practice frequently involves state parties or state-owned entities, in both commercial and investment treaty disputes.
Philip is regularly instructed as an expert in foreign proceedings, particularly on issues of English arbitration law.
He accepts appointments as an arbitrator, with experience as an ICC and as an SCC arbitrator. He has also been admitted to the Bar of the East Caribbean Supreme Court, British Virgin Islands and to the Bars of The Cayman Islands and St Kitts and Nevis (on an ad hoc basis).
https://www.twentyessex.com/people/philip-riches/
Languages
Spanish (proficient); French (proficient); Mandarin (conversational)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Philip Riches KC – Twenty Essex ‘Philip is very pragmatic and solution focused. He is also very clear in his advice, and understands his audience well.‘
London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Philip Riches KC – Twenty Essex ‘Philip has good client skills, excellent attention to detail and great advocacy in the High Court and Court of Appeal.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 6Twenty Essex is ‘an excellent chambers for international commercial disputes‘. For major Court of Appeal and Supreme Court cases, the set particularly benefits from its members’ private and public international law expertise, including specialisms in jurisdiction, conflicts and enforcement work. In Process & Industrial Developments v Federal Republic of Nigeria, an extremely high-profile $11bn dispute, Philip Riches KC is representing Nigeria, which seeks to set aside the mega-value award made against it on grounds of fraud; and in Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse, Privinvest & others, a high-stakes $2bn Commercial Court claim arising out of the “tuna bond scandal”, involving fraud, bribery, corruption and conspiracy allegations, former head of chambers Duncan Matthews KC is leading Riches and others in the representation of Privinvest in this case.
London Bar > Commodities
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 5Philip Riches KC – Twenty Essex ‘Philip is very pragmatic and solution-focused, very clear in his advice, and he understands his audience well.’
London Bar > Shipping
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 5London Bar > Energy
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Philip Riches KC –Twenty Essex ‘Philip is strong in dealing with expert evidence and is strategically creative.’