IN CONVERSATION WITH NICK ROWLES-DAVIES 07
W I T H T H A NK S T O T HE C ON T R I BU T OR S OF T HI S E XCH A NGE . . .
NICK ROWLES-DAVIES OF BURFORD C APITAL Nick Rowles-Davies is aManaging Director of Burford and leads its business in the UK. Admitted as a Solicitor in England andWales, the British Virgin Islands, and an accreditedmediator, Mr. Rowles-Davies has awide range of experience in commercial and civil litigation issues. In private practice he specialised in complex, high value matters that involved him in a number of reported cases in the High Court, the Court of Appeal and House of Lords. Mr. Rowles-Davies is a Director of the Association of Litigation Funders of England andWales. Mr. Rowles-Davies has extensive knowledge of the financial and insurance arena, having been retained by a number of banks, major insurance companies and both on- and off-shore finance houses. Mr. Rowles-Davies is regular speaker and frequent media commentator on all aspects of the current costs regime, litigation funding and the impact of the Jackson Reforms. Oxford University Press published his book on Third-Party Litigation Funding in 2014.
BEN KNOWLES, CLYDE & CO
Ben is the Co-Chair of the Global Arbitration Group. He focuses primarily on International Arbitration especially in the Upstream Oil &Gas and Trade&Commodities sectors and acts for a range of international clients, including NOCs. Ben is amember of theManagement Board and is recognised as a Reuters Super Lawyer, demonstrating excellence in the practice of law. Ben has extensive dispute resolution experience, especially in international arbitration including at the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, LME and LMAA. Ben focuses on the UpstreamOil &Gas and Trade&Commodities sectors and also advises extensively on international sanctions. One of Ben’s recent Claimant cases has been recognised in this year’s American Lawyer arbitration scorecard as one of the top 10 Awards by quantum in the last 12months. The Legal 500 has described Ben as “excellent” and “extremely efficient and hardworking,” Ben Knowles “takes a great deal of trouble to gain the confidence of the clients.” Ben headed up our substantial legal teamon the high profile USDmulti-billion arbitration between the Government of Yemen and various US oil interests. That case resulted in awin for Yemen in 2008which has been recognised as one of themajor arbitration successes of recent years. Ben has had a number of major successes for Yemen.
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