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Camilleri, Simon

Simon P. Camilleri

Of Counsel

simoncamilleri@quinnemanuel.com
Direct Tel: +44 20 7653 2078, Direct Fax: +44 20 7653 2100
London
Tel: +44 20 7653 2000 Fax: +44 20 7653 2100

Simon P. Camilleri is Of Counsel with over a decade of experience in international arbitration. Qualified in England and Wales, he holds an LLB from the University of London and a BCL from the University of Oxford.

Simon advises clients across a broad spectrum of cross-border disputes, with particular experience in proceedings under the LCIA, ICC, SCC, UNCITRAL, and DIS Rules. His work spans a wide range of industries, including energy, construction, banking and finance, civil fraud, and duty free and travel retail.

He has acted in high-value and complex arbitrations seated in multiple jurisdictions, frequently involving multi-national parties and intricate points of commercial and procedural law. The collective value of the cases Simon has been involved in exceeds US$10 billion.

Simon is known for his analytical rigor and strategic approach to resolving disputes efficiently and effectively.

  • Representing a corporate client in LCIA arbitration proceedings in relation to a dispute with an insolvent counterparty and the recovery of funds advanced to that counterparty.
  • Representing an energy company in LCIA arbitration proceedings in relation to a substantial claim for repudiatory breach of two interlinked contracts.
  • Representing a special purpose vehicle in ICC arbitration proceeds for breach of a contract entered into to participate in a public tender.
  • Representing a high net worth individual in claims brought against him and companies associated with him in LCIA arbitration proceedings by a Russian financial institution for failure to pay monies advanced under a series of interlinked contracts.
  • Advising a major shipping company on options to enforce an arbitration award issued under the LMAA Terms against a recalcitrant middle eastern debtor.
  • Serving as counsel for an international oil and gas company in arbitration proceedings concerning the construction and breach of two production sharing contracts.
  • Serving as counsel for an international oil and gas company in arbitration proceedings relating to an EPC contract for the construction of a gas processing plant.
  • Serving as counsel in arbitration proceedings concerning the effect of sanctions on the performance of obligations under a multi-million-dollar contract.
  • Serving as counsel in arbitration proceedings relating to fraud in a tender for one of the world's largest duty free and travel retail concessions.
  • Serving as counsel in arbitration proceedings relating to the enforcement of obligations under a complex series of project financing documents, with related proceedings in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands.
  • Serving as counsel in arbitration proceedings relating to the enforcement of obligations under a litigation funding arrangement, with related proceedings in the Isle of Man.
  • BPP Law School Higher Courts
    (Civil Advocacy, 2019)
  • University of Oxford (St Edmund Hall)
    (Bachelor of Civil Laws, 2011)
  • BPP Law School
    (Legal Practice Course, Distinction, 2010)
  • University of London (King’s College)
    (Laws LLB Hons, First Class, 2009)
  • Solicitor, England and Wales
    • Higher Rights (Civil)
  • Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson:
    • Associate, 2014 – 2020
  • Reed Smith LLP:
    • Associate, 2013 – 2014
  • ‘Between rags and riches: rethinking security for costs in international commercial arbitration’ (2021) 37 Arbitration International 851-862
  • Anti-suit injunctions after Brexit | Jus Mundi Blog
  • ‘Foreign restructurings and English law debts: the limits to cross-border assistance’ (with Fred Hobson, Brick Court Chambers) (2019) BJIB & FL 34(3), 167-169
  • ‘Court dismisses Azerbaijan foreign representative’s application for permanent moratorium (Bakhshiyeva v Sberbank and others)’ LexisNexis
  • ‘Amendments to Statements of Case: Learning the Hard Way’ (2017) 36 CJQ 297
  • ‘The Enforcement of Judgments at Common Law: Submission and Abuse of Process’ (2016) 22 JIML 351
  • ‘Anti-suit injunctions en el régimen de Bruselas I: ¿una cuestión de principios?’ (2014) VII(2) Arbitraje 421
  • ‘Recital 12 of the Brussels I Regulation: A New Hope?’ (2013) 62(4) ICLQ 899
  • ‘Third Parties and Arbitration Agreements’ [2013] LMCLQ 304
  • ‘A purposive approach to ‘Modified Universalism’: CA favours a single system of distribution in cross-border insolvencies (with Kate Davies) (2013) 7 JIBFL 453
  • ‘Article 23: Formal Validity, Material Validity or Both?’ (2011) 7(2) J. Priv. Int. L 297
  • ‘The Front Comor – The End of Arbitration as We Know It?’ (2010) 6(1) CSLR 214

Presentations

  • English Loopholes and Russian Bankruptcies’, Invited to present at the Russian Arbitration Day, August 2020
  • ‘Anti-suit injunctions under the Brussels Regime: a matter of principle(s)?’ presented at the VIII International Seminar on Private International Law in Madrid, 2014