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Paul Baker
Work Department
Insurance; International Arbitration
Position
Legal Counsel. Paul advises London and overseas insurers in the political risk and trade credit market. This advice involves claims, coverage disputes, wordings, and subrogated recovery actions. His experience includes representing insurers in disputes, often subject to international arbitration, concerning alleged expropriation, political violence, commodities trading and bank lending.
Paul also has significant experience of both commercial and investor-state arbitration. Paul has arbitrated disputes under the LCIA, ICC, PCA, UNCITRAL and ICSID rules. Paul has acted for and against a number of Middle-Eastern and African governments in disputes concerning sectors including energy, power and telecommunications and often involving matters of public international law. Paul has also represented international energy, commodities, telecommunications and technology clients in a number of commercial disputes.
Career
Eversheds LLP (as it was then): Trainee (London/Paris) 2007 – 2009. Associate, International Arbitration (Paris) 2009 – 2011; Clyde & Co (London) Associate/Senior Associate, Political Risk Insurance 2011 – 2016. Senior Associate, International Arbitration 2016 – 2019; RPC (London) Legal Counsel 2019.
Education
Education: University of Bath, BSc Business (2001 – 2005). College of Law, GDL (2005 – 2006). College of Law, LPC (2006 – 2007). Higher Rights of Audience (Civil) (2018).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Dispute resolution > International arbitration
RPC‘s international arbitration group is co-led by Shai Wade, a May 2022 partner hire from Stephenson Harwood , who is an expert in the upstream oil and gas and energy sectors, as well as joint venture, shareholder and partnership claims, and cases involving IT, telecoms, construction, and mining; and the ‘outstanding‘ Jonathan Wood. Other highly-regarded international arbitration specialists are Tatiana Minaeva and of counsel Paul Baker. Senior associates Kirtan Prasad, Fred Kuchlin and Adam Forster are also key team members.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Digital content & social
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Customs and excise
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Health and safety
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans