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
Nehali is a leading commercial senior junior, with extensive experience of complex and high-value commercial litigation and international arbitration. She has appeared at all levels in the English Court (including the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal), and in a variety of other Tribunals, both arbitral (e.g. LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL, SIAC, KLRCA, and LMAA) and regulatory (e.g. RDC) and in expert determination. Nehali practises in all aspects of commercial law, including general commercial, banking, financial services and restructuring, energy, civil fraud, professional negligence, arbitration and jurisdiction. She has previously won Banking Junior of the Year and International Arbitration Junior of the Year, and been nominated for Commercial Dispute Resolution Junior of the Year and Energy Junior of the Year.
Career
Called 2008, Middle Temple.
Memberships
LCL; CBA; COMBAR.
Education
St Paul’s Girls’ School; Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (BA Hons Law Double First); Harvard Law School (LLM); Inns of Court School of Law (BVC very competent).
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