One Essex Court houses ‘leaders in multiple fields’ making them a popular choice for arbitration counsel appointments in commercial and investor-state disputes seated in various centres across the globe, including the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, DIAC and HKIAC. Alexander Gunning KC leads 2025 silk appointment Alexander Brown KC in Unicredit Bank AG v RusChemAlliance LLC, acting on behalf of the RCA, most recently before the Supreme Court in an anti-suit injunction to prevent RCA pursuing legal proceedings in Russia related to the non-payment of performance bonds by Unicredit. The set often handles complex banking arbitrations, in which Lord Wolfson KC, Alain Choo Choy KC and Daniel Toledano KC often lead. On the junior end, Nehali Shah and Henry Hoskins are highly experienced in arbitrations and related Commercial Court proceedings.
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Profile
Position
Henry Hoskins’ practice covers a wide spectrum of commercial dispute resolution, including litigation and international arbitration. Henry has acted in complex, high-value litigation in the High Court and the Court of Appeal led by senior members of Chambers, as well as regularly appearing as sole counsel in the High Court (including the Commercial Court, the Chancery Division, and the Queen's Bench Division). He also has experience of international arbitration, including under the LCIA, ICC and Swiss Rules, and of arbitration issues in the Commercial Court. He has published a number of commentaries concerning commercial law in the Journal of International Banking and Financial Law and the Law Quarterly Review.
Career
Called 2003, Lincoln’s Inn.
Languages
French (reasonably fluent conversational).
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR
Education
University of Oxford (2012 BCL (Distinction)); Paris II University: Panthéon-Assas (2010 Certificat Supérieur de Droit Français); University of Oxford (BA Law with Law Studies in France (First Class)).
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