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Mr Robert-Jan Temmink KC KC
Position
Robert has a wide-ranging and international practice in commercial and chancery law. He is known for being a talented and intellectually-agile advocate equally at home in fraud and financial services cases as in aviation and shipping matters. He has a strong practice in construction, energy and infrastructure disputes and is often asked to advise and act in complex insolvency and cross-border actions.
Robert is called to the bar in the Eastern Caribbean and Trinidad & Tobago and has acted in cases in the BVI, Cayman and the Turks & Caicos islands. He is a registered advocate in the Abu Dhabi Global Market and was one of the first UK advocates registered to practice in the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. He is also called to the bar in Northern Ireland and as a Foreign Legal Consultant in the State of New York.
Robert has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 2007 and has been appointed as an arbitrator in ICC, LCIA, LMAA and English arbitrations under the Arbitration Act. He is a registered arbitrator in the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the Asia International Arbitration Centre, the Dubai International Arbitration Centre and has acted as Counsel in a wide variety of institutional arbitrations dealing with commercial cases in all of his core areas of practice.
Robert is an accredited mediator and has conducted numerous commercial mediations. He is a TECBAR-accredited mediator and adjudicator and has been appointed as an adjudicator in several large construction-related matters. He acted as Counsel in the Court of Appeal’s decision concerning stays of adjudication and enforcement in the event of a party’s insolvency.
Career
Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Called to the Bars of Eastern Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago, New York (FLC) & Northern Ireland. Admitted to the Dubai International Financial Centre Court; Abu Dhabi General Market. ADR Group Accredited Mediator; TECBAR Accredited Mediator, Adjudicator, Arbitrator & Dispute Board Member; Asia International Arbitration Centre Arbitrator; HKIAC Panel Member.
Contributing author of LexisNexis Special Report: Financial Services Regulation & Litigation; Lissack & Horlick on Bribery; Investing in Emerging Markets.
Languages
Working knowledge of French, Italian, Russian, Spanish.
Memberships
ChBA, COMBAR, TECBAR, LMAA.
Education
Trinity College, Cambridge (MA)
Personal
Trustee: Temple Music Trust; King’s Singers Foundation; St Paul’s Cathedral School. Director: Merchant Taylors’ Catering Company; Court Member of Merchant Taylors’ Company.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Aviation and Travel
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Robert-Jan Temmink KC – Quadrant Chambers ‘Very accessible, friendly, able to command a room.’
Members of Quadrant Chambers take on instructions from lessors, airlines and insurers across matters ranging from hull losses to leasing and redelivery disputes. John Kimbell KC is noted for his expertise in multi-jurisdictional matters, including representing families in claims arising out of fatal crashes. Insurance disputes form the basis of Guy Blackwood KC‘s practice, who leads for a number of parties defending operator all risk policy claims in AerCap (and ors) v AIG (and ors), while on the lessor side, Robert-Jan Temmink KC is handling claims against a number of Lloyds syndicates. Matthew Reeve KC is engaged by lessors bringing both lessor and operator claims against insurers, and also secured an injunction forcing disclosure of where non-airworthy parts for CFM56 engines were sold to the plaintiffs in GE Aviation and CFM v AOG Technics. Tom Bird maintains a strong insurer-side practice, defending a number of reinsurers facing operator claims in the wake of Russia’s confiscation of leased aircraft, with further experience appearing for parties in inquests investigating fatal accidents.
London Bar > International arbitration: counsel
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Robert-Jan Temmink KC –Quadrant Chambers ‘Rob is an extremely effective advocate. He is true class. An excellent leader who gets stuck into the detail and processes information quickly to present it in the most compelling way. His cross-examination technique leaves no prisoners, and he knows instinctively when to press for more information and when not to. Rob is excellent with clients who all like him enormously and hold him in very high regard.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Robert-Jan Temmink KC –Quadrant Chambers ‘Robert is a masterful advocate – he’s highly persuasive, reads the court room very well and is creative in his approach to his advocacy. A user friendly counsel with a particularly notable star quality when it comes to advocacy.’
Particularly reputed for its shipping and logistics expertise, Quadrant Chambers is also well-equipped to handle international commercial, contractual, and joint venture disputes, as well as fraud and banking litigation. In the banking space, Simon Rainey KC is representing Afghanistan International Bank against Yes Bank Limited, where the claimant is seeking to prevent parallel proceedings brought in India in a significant dispute over international bank guarantees to cover a delayed power transmission lines installation in Kabul. Robert-Jan Temmink KC is representing the claimants in Bahia and others v Sidhu and others, a partnership dispute between two families over assets worth approximately £23m, involving allegations of fraud and concealment of assets. Meanwhile, Paul Downes KC and Nicola Allsop act for the defendant in DAZN v IMG, a dispute over broadcasting rights that addresses whether COVID-19 disruption qualifies as a force majeure event and the extent of liability for existing license fees.
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Robert-Jan Temmink KC – Quadrant Chambers ‘Robert is absolutely fantastic on his feet. A brilliant and engaging advocate with a real presence before the judge and tribunal.’
Middle East: The English Bar > Commercial
(Leading silks)Ranked: Tier 1Quadrant Chambers handles international disputes and arbitrations across the globe, which includes a number of shipping, commodities, trading and finance disputes in the Middle East. The set is particularly strong at silk level. Robert-Jan Temmink KC often handles fraud, corruption, aviation and construction disputes and insolvency, while recently promoted silk Paul Toms KC focuses his practice on commercial and international trade disputes, and frequently litigates in the DIFC as well as Dubai seated arbitrations.