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Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP
CITYPOINT
1 ROPEMAKER STREET
LONDON
EC2Y 9AW
England

Work Department

International Arbitration

Position

Duncan Speller is a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department, and Co-Chair of Willkie’s Arbitration Practice Group. Duncan is based in the London office, where he practices International Arbitration and English High Court Litigation.

Duncan is an English barrister. He has significant experience in international arbitration and has successfully represented clients as an advocate on some of the most challenging, high-value and complex cases over the past decade. Duncan has represented clients in over one hundred and fifty institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, sited in both common and civil law jurisdictions, including England, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria and Germany.

Duncan also has substantial experience of international commercial litigation in both the English Court of Appeal and in the Commercial and Chancery Divisions of the High Court. He has particular experience of arbitration and litigation concerning aviation, oil and gas, insurance and reinsurance, private equity, telecommunications, banking and competition law issues.

Duncan sits as an arbitrator and has been appointed as arbitrator or emergency arbitrator by multiple arbitral institutions.

Education

Inns of Court School of Law, 2001; University of Oxford, B.C.L., 2000; University of Cambridge, B.A., 1999

Lawyer Rankings

London > Dispute resolution > International arbitration

(Leading partners)

Duncan Speller – Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP

With ‘a strong focus and dedication to cases’, Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP‘s London team has acted in over 200 international ad hoc and institutional arbitrations to date. The practice regularly works on arbitrations alongside the firm’s offices in New York, Washington DC, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Paris, Frankfurt, and Milan. Global co-chair of the international arbitration practice group, Duncan Speller has ‘good insight into complex litigation’, while international arbitration specialist Dharshini Prasad was raised to partner in January 2024.