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Richard Lewis
Work Department
Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment
Position
Partner
Career
As a partner in our Dispute Resolution team, Richard focuses on high-value and complex litigation, often originating in former Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, in particular Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. He has in-depth experience in cross-border litigation and fraud, including particular worldwide freezing injunctions and other powerful asset preservation relief.
Richard has acted on some of the most high-profile disputes to come before the English courts in recent years, including acting for the Kazakh bank, Bank TuranAlem, on the groundbreaking dispute against its former chairman, Mukhtar Ablyazov, who was found to have misappropriated assets worth billions of dollars. He also led the team in a related action that recently came before the UK Supreme Court in what has become one of the leading cases on the tort of unlawful means conspiracy. He is currently acting for the largest bank in Ukraine, PrivatBank, in another high-profile claim against the bank’s former shareholders and officers, who are alleged to have defrauded the bank of sums running to US$2.6 billion. Richard also acts for Kazakhstan Kagazy in its US$300 million fraud claim against its former directors, on which he was instructed in place of Allen & Overy last year in recognition of his market-leading expertise in complex, cross-border enforcement matters.
Whilst having acted on significant disputes in a wide range of fields, Richard has particular experience in the fields of banking and mining, having also acted for the Kazakh mining conglomerate, Eurasian Natural Resources Corp., in a dispute concerning a major iron ore project in Brazil. Richard is known for being hard-working, determined, tenacious, and highly commercial and comes recommended for CIS-related disputes in particular.
Education
University of Leeds
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Finance > Trade finance
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property finance
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Transport > Aviation
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Employment > Health and safety
- Finance > High yield
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Real estate > Planning
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Transport > Rail
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Water
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders