Littleton Chambers’ skilled team ‘commands respect in the commercial litigation market’. Charles Samek KC is ‘phenomenally clever, incredibly personable, and inspires real confidence in handling the most complex of cases’; he successfully represented the appellant before the Court of Appeal in Servis-Terminal LLC v Drelle. The court confirmed that a sum of money ordered to be paid by a judgment of a foreign court cannot form the base of a bankruptcy petition, unless that judgment has been recognised in the UK. In a separate matter, Jonathan Cohen KC successfully represented Swiss businessman Thomas Flohr in the High Court in a strike-out application against a claim brought by Frontiers Capital pertaining to alleged investment fraud.
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Profile
Position
Charles Samek KC is a commercial lawyer with a substantial court and advisory practice. In practice for 33 years, 14 years as a Silk, he has been involved in many leading cases and high-profile commercial disputes. Specialising in commercial litigation, civil fraud, banking & finance and shareholder disputes, he is highly experienced both as a first-instance and appellate advocate. He has been admitted to the Bars of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI) and ad hoc in the Cayman Islands. He also acts as counsel in international arbitrations, and has sat as an arbitrator in the LCIA. He was educated at St Paul’s School and Oriel College, Oxford University. He speak excellent Italian, very good French and intermediate Russian.
Career
Called 1989; QC 2009. Also called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI) and he has unlimited rights of audience for the Astana International Financial Centre Court. He has also been admitted to the Cayman Bar to argue specific matters.
Languages
Italian (excellent); French (good); Russian (basic conversational and written).
Memberships
COMBAR, Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association, LCIA European Users Council, International Bar Association, Chancery Bar Association, London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association, British Russian Law Association, British Italian Law Association.
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