Henry Moore

Henry Moore is an experienced commercial barrister. He specialises in commercial litigation and international arbitration across the following main practice areas: commercial disputes, energy, civil fraud, shipping and international trade, jurisdiction and procedure, insurance, and financial services.

Recent cases include:

• Arsenal Football Club Plc & Ors v Allianz & Ors: acted for the defendants in a £100m business interruption claim by Premier League clubs and others (listed for trial in 2025 but now settled), led by Alistair Schaff KC and Simon Kerr
• Infinity Treasures PTE Ltd v Global Currency Exchange Network Ltd (CA-2024-000184): acted as sole counsel in the Court of Appeal in a stakeholder dispute about the distribution of funds held by a global FX provider
• Desai & Shah v RSA: acted as sole counsel for RSA in its successful defence of a conspiracy claim in the High Court (discontinued by the claimants following the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Desai & Shah v Wood [2025] EWCA Civ 906)
• NWP Electrical & Mechanical Limited v Travelers: acted as sole counsel for the claimant in a high-value TCC dispute about a defective lighting control system on the Oxford Brookes campus (settled shortly before a 6-day trial listed in early 2025)
• Hiscox Services Limited & Ors v Abraham: successfully obtained a final charging order over the assets of a former CFO who misappropriated US$1.5m+ of company funds (as sole counsel in the High Court)
• Re Russian Aircraft Operator Policy Claims [2024] EWHC 734 (Comm); [2024] EWHC 3299 (Comm); [2024] EWHC 3300 (Comm): litigation worth in excess of US$10 billion concerning the loss of aircraft in Russia (one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2024)

In addition to the cases above, Henry has gained significant trial and hearing experience from a number of high-profile reported cases (including several in which he conducted oral advocacy):

• Commercial disputes: Gunvor SA v Zambia (Permanent Court of Arbitration) (led by Stephen Hofmeyr KC), Consulting Concepts International Inc. v CPA (Saudi Arabia) [2022] EWCA Civ 1699; [2022] EWHC 461 (Comm) (led by Gavin Kealey KC), and Lamesa Investments Limited v Cynergy Bank Limited [2020] EWCA Civ 821 (led by Jonathan Crow KC)
• Civil fraud: BV Nederlandse Industrie Van Eiprodukten v Rembrandt Enterprises, Inc. [2019] EWCA Civ 596; [2020] QB 551 (led by Gavin Kealey KC) and VTB Commodities Trading DAC v JSC Antipinsky Refinery [2021] EWHC 1758 (Comm) (led by Michael Holmes KC)
• Energy: Apache North Sea Ltd v Euroil Exploration Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 1397; [2019] EWHC 3241 (Comm) (led by David Allen KC) and Apache Beryl I Ltd v Marathon Oil UK LLC [2017] EWHC 2504 (Comm); [2017] EWHC 2462 (Comm) (led by David Allen KC and Jason Robinson KC)
• Insurance: Zephyrus Capital Aviation Partners 1D Ltd v Fidelis Underwriting Ltd [2024] EWHC 734 (Comm) (led by various KCs), FCA v Arch [2021] UKSC 1; [2020] EWHC 2448 (Comm) (led by Gavin Kealey KC and Andrew Wales KC), Stonegate v MS Amlin [2022] EWHC 2548 (Comm) (led by Gavin Kealey KC and Adam Fenton KC), and The Cultural Foundation v Beazley Furlonge Ltd [2018] EWHC 1083 (Comm); [2018] EWHC 2185 (Comm); [2018] EWHC 2548 (Comm) (led by James Brocklebank KC)
• Shipping / international trade: Quiana Navigation SA v Pacific Gulf Shipping (Singapore) Pte Ltd (The “Caravos Liberty”) [2019] EWHC 3171 (Comm) (led by Robert Bright KC) and Aegean Baltic Bank SA v Renzlor Shipping Ltd [2020] EWHC 2851 (Comm); [2020] EWHC 2736 (Comm) (led by Peter MacDonald Eggers KC)