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Mr Armando Neris

Work Department
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Position
Armando Neris focuses his practice on commercial litigation and arbitration, together with investor-state disputes. He represents a broad range of clients – including state-owned entities and SWFs, major financial institutions, private equity funds, multinational corporations and high-net-worth individuals – in complex and high-value disputes. Armando has a strong background in banking and financial services, private equity and energy and natural resources disputes.
Apart from conducting commercial litigation before the English courts, of which he has considerable experience, Armando has acted as counsel in a number of institutional (ICSID, LCIA, AAA, SIAC and HKIAC) and ad hoc international commercial and investor-state arbitrations. He has appeared as counsel in the New Zealand High Court and Court of Appeal. Armando also has experience of managing and coordinating cross-border disputes and foreign proceedings in a number of different jurisdictions around the world.
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Lawyer Rankings
London > Dispute resolution > International arbitration
McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP‘s international arbitration team represents states and private entities in proceedings under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties and free trade agreements. It is also active in commercial arbitrations. Team head Andrew Savage is ‘a fantastic lawyer‘, while associates Romilly Holland, Kimberley Smith and Edward Perkins are also active practitioners. In 2021, the London office recruited partner Michael Darowski and ‘superstar‘ counsel Armando Neris from Gowling WLG and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, respectively.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: lower mid-market deals, £50m-£500m
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Finance > High yield
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employers
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Real estate > Property finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech