The team at Zaiwalla & Co supports clients in both commercial and investor-state arbitration, with particular strength in advising on matters in the shipping, mining, and commodities sectors. Practice heads Sarosh Zaiwalla and Leigh Crestohl bring extensive experience in the space, with Zaiwalla being a key contact for major state and corporate clients, and Crestohl complementing the team's offering with expertise in IP-related topics.
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Testimonials
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- Zaiwalla is excellent at coming up with creative solutions to difficult problems faced by a range of international clients. Their work is often carried out under significant time pressure.
- Special expertise in sanctions.
- Daniel Powell (Associate) – A highly effective and versatile lawyer, particularly skilled at cutting through large masses of complicated facts to get to the nub of an issue.
- A focused, client-driven, and highly experienced practice, whose formidable experience in the commercial litigation arena feeds into a highly adaptable international arbitration practice, across both international commercial and investor-state arbitration.
Key clients
- Axis Mineral Resources
- Sharp Corp
- OOO Magellan
- Virgo Marine
Work highlights
Advised on interstate arbitration relating to a mineral extraction leasing agreement between the client and an African government where the government revoked the mining license, froze the client’s assets, and placed a rival operator in the mine.
Instructed on a GAFTA arbitration, Court of Appeal and ultimately Supreme Court proceedings won by the client on points of law relating to how losses are calculated in a case where goods are not accepted by the buyer; and secondly on what the limits of the English’s Court’s powers are when a party to an arbitration appeals a point of law to the Court.
Challenging an arbitral award in the Courts on the grounds of serious irregularity arising out of a shipping dispute and deposit agreement.
Practice head
Sarosh Zaiwalla; Leigh Crestohl
Other key lawyers
Varun Zaiwalla