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Oliver Caplin KC KC
Work Department
- Arbitration and mediation
- Banking and finance
- Civil fraud
- Commercial law
- Insurance and reinsurance
- Private international law
- Shipping
Position
Oliver has a broad commercial practice which particularly focuses on international trade, jurisdiction, IP/IT, and dry-shipping disputes (including ship construction). He is ranked as a leading junior in a number of practice areas by Chambers & Partners (UK Bar), The Legal 500 (UK Bar, Asia Pacific) and Who’s Who Legal. He was nominated for Shipping Junior of the Year in 2021 by Chambers & Partners and for Shipping and Commodities Junior of the Year by The Legal 500 in 2022.
His commercial work spans a number of different sectors, including up and downstream oil and gas, energy, pharmaceuticals, telecoms and IT, and sports. Many of his cases involve jurisdictional or other conflicts of laws issues. Oliver has developed particular experience in the area of anti-suit injunctive relief.
Oliver has a broad marine and non-marine insurance practice, including reinsurance. He is the co-author of Miller’s Marine War Risks (4th Ed, Informa).
He appears frequently in the Commercial Court, both as sole counsel and as a junior to a QC. Oliver has also appeared a number of times in the Court of Appeal. He regularly represents clients in arbitral proceedings (both in London and Singapore) before the LMAA, LCIA, ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, GAFTA and FOSFA, as well as related arbitration applications in the Commercial Court.
Before coming to the Bar, Oliver trained and practised as a medical doctor. As a result, he has a particular interest in commercial litigation falling within the life sciences and technology industries. His scientific training also assists more generally with technical disputes involving issues of (bio)chemistry, physics, and engineering.
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Languages
Italian (conversational)
Lawyer Rankings
Asia Pacific - The English Bar > Shipping and commodities
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Twenty Essex ‘has the biggest stable of commodities counsel‘ and maintains a close relationship with the Singaporean legal market, with members bringing their expertise to complex litigation in the shipping space. High-value arbitration matters have also been prominent in the group’s caseload, an area in which the ‘strong and dynamic‘ Timothy Hill KC excels. Timothy Young KC has ‘a fearsome legal mind, and he is very creative on legal argument and strategy‘. The ‘sharp‘ Duncan Matthews KC advises on a range of shipping issues, including bills of lading, cargo claims and contracts of affreightments. At the junior end of chambers, Oliver Caplin specialises in handling dry shipping and commodities disputes.
London Bar > Insurance and reinsurance
(2024 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1London Bar > Commodities
(2024 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Oliver Caplin KC –Twenty Essex ‘Oliver is an excellent barrister whose advocacy is clear, concise and perfectly delivered.’
Twenty Essex is ‘a first-rate chambers for commodities and shipping disputes, with excellent depth of quality at all levels of seniority’. The set ‘certainly has the greatest depth of coverage of the commodities field of any other chambers’, with members well versed in major arbitrations under the rules of GAFTA, FOSFA and the other well-known commodity associations.Michael Ashcroft KC is currently involved in LCIA arbitrations concerning multiple sale contracts between mine operators, sellers of metals and Swiss traders concerning the compliance of metal products with contractual specifications. The ‘highly responsive, commercially savvy and incisive’ Oliver Caplin KC, who specialises in dry shipping and commodities disputes, is among the market’s most prominent juniors.
London Bar > Shipping
(2024 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Oliver Caplin KC –Twenty Essex ‘Oliver is a superb advocate. He delivers the points that need to be made in a clear and measured way.’