Addleshaw Goddard

Commercial Disputes

Partner

Lucas is an international arbitration and litigation specialist and has advised on matters throughout the Middle East for over 15 years. He has extensive experience advising on disputes relating to telecommunications, banking, insolvency, aviation and fraud as well as general commercial disputes. Lucas also specialises in the running of complex cross border investigations and advises clients on compliance issues.

Lucas' practice is inherently international in nature, and he has worked on cases from a wide variety of jurisdictions outside of the Middle East including Uganda, Rwanda, Mauritius, New York, Italy, Cayman Islands, France and Switzerland.

Lucas is experienced in advising on litigation under the Civil Procedure Rules of the English Court, the DIFC and ADGM and on international arbitrations under the LCIA, ICC, DIAC, SIAC, HKIAC, GCC Commercial Centre and CRCICA as well as ad hoc arbitrations under the arbitration laws of England & Wales, Oman, UAE and KSA.

Lucas is also a member of the DIFC Courts' "Courts of the Future Working Group".

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