4 Stone Buildings has a depth of expertise and experience acting on significant pieces of commercial litigation, and has a developed civil fraud offering. Jonathan Crow KC recently appeared in Hulley Enterprises Ltd v. The Russian Federation, in which he is representing claimants seeking to enforce Energy Charter Treaty awards against Russia concerning the de facto expropriation of energy firm Yukos in the mid-2000s, the largest arbitral award ever made. Elsewhere in chambers, the ‘logical, detailed and thorough’ senior junior Christopher Harrison is acting in the Laxmi BNS Holdings Limited shareholder dispute with wide-ranging allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation and breach of contract, and Donald Lilly KC is instructed in multijurisdictional proceedings in respect to a successful jurisdiction challenge in the Magomedov litigiation concerning allegations of unlawful means conspiracy. Tiran Nersessian KC took silk in 2026.
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