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of rigs, financings, drilling contracts, investment in a quoted Norwegian company,total return swap arrangement etc)• Advising Essar Shipping, the quoted shipping business of the Essar Group, onvarious transactions (including sale and purchase of ships, financings, capitalmarkets exercises, establishment in Cyprus)• Advising Great Eastern a quoted Indian shipping group on various matters(including LNG tenders, sale and purchase etc)• Advising Varun a quoted specialist Indian shipping company in relation to anumber of ship acquisitions• Advising an Indian shipping company on various international shipping jointventures and activities• Advising a UK Gas Utility on the Bombay natural gas distribution project• Advising an Indian airline on the purchase of second hand aircraft from the UnitedKingdom• Advising an Indian-owned international trading group in relation to aspects of theirshipowning activitiesDISPUTE RESOLUTION• Acting for shipowners in connection with liabilities/obligations/claims arising out ofa cargo fire which broke out in a cargo of Copra Expeller during a voyage fromIndonesia to India• Acting for shipowners in connection with claims arising out of an engine room firewhich occurred while the vessel in question was on a laden voyage from India toChina12
• Acting for the Government of India in the world's largest and India's firstinvestment treaty arbitration. The multi-billion dollar claims arose out of the DabholPower Project in Maharashtra which was built by a US consortium led by Enron,GE and Bechtel. Further advising the Government of India on the overallsettlement of the complex Dabhol disputes which had been ongoing for the lastfive years and negotiating two separate settlements with GE and Bechtel• Acting for Transocean in a London arbitration against operators in two adjacent oiland gas fields off Mumbai• Advising Sedco in a major UNCITRAL arbitration with Enron SE Asia (instructingLinklaters Paris). The matter involves an offshore oil pipeline in the Indian Ocean.Sedco were successful in the preliminary hearings which concerned the first partof the claim (for US$10m)• Acting in a dispute between a Russian and Indian company in connection with atender for a drilling project in India. The owners had agreed a time charter with anIndian company authorising them to tender the rig. The project was awarded tothis Indian Company who subsequently failed to honour its substantial financialobligations under the time charter• Advising the Government of India on its Bilateral Investment Treaties• Acting in a London litigation for a pharmaceutical manufacturer based in Mumbaiin relation to a disputed payment for an exported consignment of pharmaceuticalfinished products• Acting for Great Eastern Shipping in a High Court litigation on a dollar/yen swapagainst the Bank of America• Acting for a drilling rig owner in an ad hoc arbitration based in London in relation totermination of a long-term drilling contract for a project in India. The case isanother substantial arbitration involving a claim in excess of US$24m13
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