Robert Howe KC KC > Blackstone Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile

Blackstone Chambers is home to numerous experts who possess strengths across the full spectrum of intellectual property disputes. Michael Bloch KC is active in registered design right cases, while Robert Howe KC boasts substantial experience in representing clients from the media and entertainment sector. James Segan KC regularly appears before the Patents Court with a strong patent licensing disputes practice, in addition to representing clients before the Copyright Tribunal.

Recognised for its diverse offering across a wide range of commercial disputes, barristers at Blackstone Chambers have extensive experience advocating before arbitral institutions across the world, including the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, as well as ad-hoc arbitrations following UNCITRAL rules. Robert Anderson KC frequently appears in investment treaty and investor state arbitrations and related proceedings, Robert Howe KC has recently acted in a major sports rights dispute before the LCIA, while the arbitration work of Harish Salve SA – notable as a both a silk in England and as a senior advocate in India –  has recently been in the oil and gas field.

As a ‘very strong set with breadth for civil fraud’, Blackstone Chambers is particularly well-equipped to handle fraud matters in the financial services sector, including cases touching on asset recovery, bribery, breach of fiduciary duty, as well as anti-counterfeiting. Robert Howe KC is instructed for five of the fifteen defendants in Crane Bank v DFCU Bank and others, a $250 million claim concerning the collapse and sale of one of Uganda’s largest banks, allegedly the result of a corrupt scheme and unlawful means conspiracy. In the BVI, Andrew Hunter KC and Tom Mountford acted for the successful respondents on appeal in XYZ, Chia Hsing Wang v Real Assets (RA) Global Opportunity Fund I, Floreat Real Estate, a case involving allegations of non-disclosure and misrepresentation. Tom Weisselberg KC continues to act for the first defendant in Public Institution for Social Security Fund v Al Rajaan, a $850m claim brought by the Kuwaiti public pension fund, which alleges corruption on the part of its former director-general.