Ashkhan Candey
Managing Partner
Recognised as a Leading Individual by the Legal 500, with business nous Ashkhan provides legal and commercial direction to his clients.
He has a long track record of successive wins and major settlements in the High Court, Court of Appeal and International Arbitrations.
Ashkhan has full rights of audience as a Solicitor Advocate of the Supreme Court in England. He has been called to the Bar in England and admitted as a Solicitor Advocate (non-practising) in the British Virgin Islands (Supreme Court of the Eastern Caribbean).
Approachable, very commercial and fiercely loyal, Ashkhan is repeatedly instructed and recommended by clients and other lawyers because he understands and is in touch with their needs. He always seeks to empower clients and is a plain speaker who gets straight to the point. Standing shoulder to shoulder with his clients he aims to get unresolved disputes before a Judge or Arbitrator without delay. He works with lawyers from all over the world, and in particular the USA.
He primarily acts for entrepreneurs and multinationals and leads a team of 40 fee earners at CANDEY.
Read more | Contact acandey@candey.com
Andrew Dunn
Partner
Andrew is a specialist in shareholder disputes, company law and insolvency. He has acted for clients and teams all over the world including Russia, US, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Europe, Equatorial Guinea and the Caribbean. He regularly receives instructions and referrals from other international lawyers particularly in Russia, the Caribbean and US.
Read more | Contact adunn@candey.com
Nigel McEwen
Chairman & Partner
A founding Partner of CANDEY, Nigel was Managing Partner & Chairman of Tarlo Lyons during the time when that firm experienced dynamic growth. A highly experienced commercial litigator by background, Nigel has wide knowledge of the commercial legal sector and, together with members of the Management board, leads the strategy of the firm
Read more | Contact nmcewen@candey.com
Muhammed Haque QC
Partner
Mo Haque QC is a highly experienced and client-focussed commercial litigator. He practised at the English Bar for eighteen years, during which period he took Silk (in 2015). He then spent time with a premier law firm in the British Virgin Islands. The Caribbean Legal 500 described him as a “first class heavyweight”. Missing the weather, he returned to the UK and joined CANDEY in 2019.
Read more | Contact mhaque@candey.com
James Collins
Partner
Recognised by leading legal directories such as Legal 500 for being “particularly sought after for big-ticket Russia-related referrals”, James is an accomplished Solicitor Advocate with a wealth of experience in advising clients from a range of sectors on complex and high value commercial disputes. He has extensive familiarity with proceedings brought both in the English High Court and under a variety of institutional arbitration rules. Most of his work has typically involved a cross border element, Russia and the CIS in particular. James acts for a diverse array of individuals, office-holders and corporates. After taking a First, he trained and qualified at Herbert Smith, which included a 6 month secondment to its Moscow office, before spending almost a decade in the London offices of two top tier US practices prior to joining CANDEY in July 2017.
Read more | Contact jcollins@candey.com
Richard Singleton
Partner
Richard is an experienced litigator who consistently achieves success for clients across a broad range of commercial disputes. He acts primarily for clients in the High Court and international arbitrations, and has extensive experience in relation to injunctions, IP & IT, partnership disputes, shareholder and share sale disputes, civil fraud and trust claims, professional negligence and restraint of trade.
Read more | Contact rsingleton@candey.com
Leo Nabarro
Partner
Leo is a partner and commercial litigator with extensive experience running High Court proceedings and trials. He acts for a broad range of clients comprising start-ups (including 2019 KPMG Best British Tech Startup), corporate finance houses, entrepreneurs and individuals. He has a track record of acting in complex, high value actions in both general commercial and shareholder disputes.
Read more | Contact Lnabarro@candey.com
Yuri Botiuk
Partner
Yuri is a specialist in complex litigation and arbitration across multiple jurisdictions including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan (and other CIS countries) the Middle East and Africa for both corporations and individuals. Actions range from multi-million dollar multi-jurisdictional fraud claims through to shareholders disputes, partnership disputes, foreign law claims, enforcing foreign judgments, construction disputes, actions for and against directors, defamation, breach of contract, tort and insolvency.
Read more | Contact ybotiuk@candey.com
Lionel Nichols
Partner & Barrister
Lionel is an English barrister and Australian solicitor with 13 years of experience advising clients in commercial litigation, international arbitration, public international law and human rights. His clients include sovereign States, corporations, NGOs and individuals. He regularly appears as advocate and has acted as a member of the counsel team, sole junior to a leader, sole counsel and as counsel leading junior counsel. He holds a Bachelor of Civil Law, MPhil (with distinction) and a doctorate in law from the University of Oxford where he studied as a Rhodes scholar. As an undergraduate he was awarded a double first and graduated first in his year at the University of Tasmania.
Read more | Contact lnichols@candey.com
Audrius Zakarauskas
Partner
Audrius trained at Brick Court Chambers and is admitted to the Bars of England and Wales (2003) and the British Virgin Islands (2009). Formerly a partner at Quinn Emmanuel. Audrius is experienced in a broad range of disputes, both in commercial litigation and arbitration. He has represented clients in contractual disputes in contexts as varied as claims for breach of profit sharing agreements; shareholder and co-investor disputes; claims for breach of service contracts; or exclusive agency agreements. Fluent in Russian, he has acted in a number of very large disputes related to parties or assets based in Russia and the CIS.
Read more | Contact azakarauskas@candey.com
Duncan Henderson
Partner
Duncan took a First from Pembroke College, Oxford. Duncan is a commercial disputes lawyer, with experience of courts and arbitral tribunals in the UK, the EU, Switzerland, the Caribbean, the Middle East and the US. He has particular expertise in financial services disputes, fraud and asset recovery, insolvency and restructuring.
Read more | Contact dhenderson@candey.com
Ben Wells
Partner
Ben Wells is a Solicitor Advocate and a fluent Russian speaker. The majority of his work is focused on Russian-speaking clients. Ben is experienced in international arbitration and dispute resolution related to cross-border disputes.
Read more | Contact bwells@candey.com
Kofi Mills-Bampoe
Partner
Kofi specialises in acting for corporates and individuals in their most significant, complex and hard-fought disputes. He has extensive experience of investigating and advising on potential claims, obtaining and enforcing court orders and judgments and negotiating high-value settlements – in each case with complete focus on the client’s commercial objectives. After Worcester College, Oxford, Kofi spent 7 years at Linklaters and 4 years at Macfarlanes prior to joining CANDEY.
Read more | Contact Kmills-bampoe@candey.com
Paul Kinninmont
Partner
Paul is an effective and commercially minded disputes lawyer. His extensive experience includes full trials, appeals, injunctions, interim applications, jurisdictional battles and enforcement proceedings across several sectors and jurisdictions. Paul often helps sophisticated clients to realise business objectives through mediation and negotiation. He also helps multinationals to navigate risks arising from international treaties, international sanctions and bribery issues.
Read more | Contact pkinninmont@candey.com
James Glaysher
Partner
James Glaysher is an experienced solicitor-advocate specialising in international commercial arbitration. He represents clients from a broad range of jurisdictions in arbitrations administered by all of the major institutions. His cases principally concern the global energy and infrastructure industries, with this practice supplemented by extensive experience of arbitrations in both the construction and banking & finance sectors.
Read more | Contact jglaysher@candey.com
Caitriona McCarthy
Partner
Caitriona is a highly experienced disputes lawyer, predominantly with an international arbitration focus. Her practice includes international dispute resolution governed by ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, ICC, LMAA and Swiss Rules. She is also active in advising clients on disputes before the English High Court and appellate Courts. After studying at the University College Cork as a College Scholar she undertook the BCL at Lincoln College, Oxford together with a Post Graduate Diploma in International Arbitration from Queen Mary University of London. Caitriona qualified as a solicitor with Arthur Cox, Dublin before joining Slaughter and May. She subsequently spent 10 years at Clyde & Co before joining CANDEY as a partner in 2021. Caitriona likes to think she is fluent in Irish.
Contact cmccarthy@candey.com
Mei Wong
Senior Solicitor
Recognised by the Legal 500 as a “Rising Star”, Mei has a broad range of experience in commercial litigation and international arbitration. Mei has acted for corporations abd high profile individuals in company related disputes particularly minority shareholder and boardroom fall outs . Her significant courtroom experience includes cases in both the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
Read more | Contact mwong@candey.com
Serene Allen
Senior Solicitor
Serene is a seasoned commercial litigator with extensive experience in general commercial litigation, financial services litigation and insolvency-related matters. She has acted on a broad range of international and domestic disputes, across a number of sectors, including breach of warranty claims, shareholder and company-related disputes, civil fraud claims, cross-border contractual disputes and complex financial services disputes. Serene has significant experience in running High Court proceedings for a range of clients, from private individuals to large multi-national corporates, and also has experience of arbitration proceedings, particularly under the LCIA Rules. She offers clients practical and commercial advice and often resolves complex disputes through mediation or other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
Contact sallen@candey.com
Sam Cheesbrough
Barrister
Sam studied law at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, receiving the George Long Prize for obtaining the highest university mark in Civil Law II. After graduating, he taught contract and tort law to undergraduates at the University of Cambridge, and land law to undergraduates at King’s College, London. Sam is called to the Bar of England and Wales (Gray’s Inn, 2014).
Read more | Contact scheesbrough@candey.com
William Stewart-Parker
Barrister
William has a broad range of experience in chancery and commercial advice, litigation and alternative dispute resolution. He has acted for a diverse range of clients from private individuals to large multinational corporate bodies, including automotive companies, at all levels of the courts and tribunals of England & Wales. His previous work included a nine-month secondment to act as an in-house counsel for Nissan International, based at the Nissan Technical Centre Europe.
Read more | Contact wstewart-parker@candey.com
Emily Higgins
Solicitor
Emily has acted on a broad range of complex, high value international and domestic commercial disputes. Her experience encompasses banking and finance disputes, freezing injunctions, non-party costs orders, contractual claims, shareholder disputes and sports disputes. Emily has significant court experience in both the High Court and Court of Appeal. She has also assisted clients in resolving disputes through mediation and other forms of ADR.
Contact ehiggins@candey.com
Petar Petkov
Solicitor
Petar is a Solicitor Advocate with experience in complex and high-value commercial disputes before the English High Court and under a variety of institutional arbitration rules (LCIA, ICC, ICSID, Swiss Rules, UNCITRAL and ad hoc). His work mostly involves a cross-border element, in particular relating to Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan (and other CIS countries) and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining CANDEY Petar worked at dispute resolution boutiques and a US law firm in London (UK) and as an assistant to a prominent Swiss arbitrator in Geneva (Switzerland). Petar holds a Master in international affairs from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland) and a double degree (LLB/Maîtrise) in English and French law from the University of Leicester (UK) and the University of Strasbourg (France). In addition to English, Petar is fluent in Bulgarian, Russian and French.
Contact ppetkov@candey.com
Sonia Bamford
Solicitor Advocate
Sonia studied law at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. She is a commercially aware litigator who is client focused at all stages of litigation and alternative dispute resolution. She acts for a range of clients from private individuals to large corporate bodies both in the UK and abroad. Sonia has experience in bringing proceedings in the High Court, Court of Appeal, and under a variety of institutional arbitration rules.
Read more | Contact sbamford@candey.com
Maninder Goraya
Solicitor
Maninder is a commercial litigator with experience in complex, high value international litigation and arbitration. His clients come from a range of sectors including banking, energy and natural resources, media and property. Maninder has acted for a range of clients from private individuals to large corporate bodies both in the UK and abroad, and has experience in bringing proceedings in the High Court, as well as under a variety of institutional arbitration rules.
Contact mgoraya@candey.com
Tom Cairns
Adviser
Tom qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen in 1999 and then spent sixteen years in private equity, investing in the natural resources, retail, real estate and technology sectors. Tom co-founded Barclays Natural Resource Investments in 2006, acting as a member of BNRI’s investment committee and a non-executive director on the boards of five of BNRI’s portfolio companies. Since 2016 he has held senior roles in a range of natural resources companies, including a non-executive directorship with one of the world’s largest privately-owned mining and fertiliser groups. He is currently CFO of a UK-based gas exploration business. Tom has a first class degree in Mathematics from St John’s College, Cambridge.
Tom advises CANDEY on the finance and accounting aspects of the firm’s litigation and investigations cases.
Contact tcairns@candey.com
Adam Arif
Trainee Solicitor
Adam completed his legal studies and undertook the LPC at BPP London in 2018. Adam has a range of experience working in various in-house legal teams as well as commercial law firms in UK and Turkey. He is fluent in Russian and Turkish.
Contact aarif@candey.com
Yana Chekavska
Trainee Solicitor
Yana completed the LPC at BPP University with distinction in 2018.
Prior to that, Yana obtained PhD in Environmental and Natural Resources Law and taught law in Ukraine. She has profound interest in commercial law developed through International MBA and experience gained at the investment management company in London.
Contact ychekavska@candey.com
Dmytro Chekavskyi
Trainee Solicitor
Dmytro completed his legal studies and undertook the LPC at BPP London in 2018. Prior to that Dmytro worked at a dispute resolution boutique Ukrainian law firm in Kyiv. Dmytro admitted to Ukrainian Bar since 2012 and in addition to English, is fluent in Ukrainian and Russian.
Contact dchekavskyi@candey.com
Roxana Cioara
Trainee Solicitor
Roxana was awarded a First in Law from the University of Kent in 2019. During her undergraduate studies, she was awarded the Scott Moncrief Prize for Best Essay in Social Justice in 2017 and the Clement-Walker Mediation Prize 2019. She is completing the LLM Legal Practice Course at BPP Law and was awarded the Career Commitment Scholarship by BPP in 2020.
Contact rcioara@candey.com
Lilit Nagapetyan
Trainee Solicitor
Lilit is a chartered accountant (ACA, CFE) and a foreign-qualified lawyer. She has previously practised in London as a forensic accountant with a top-10 accounting firm where she has been involved in a wide range of litigation and arbitration disputes, as well as EC and CMA Monitoring Trustee mandates. She is a Teaching Fellow in international commercial litigation and international arbitration at Queen Mary University of London (School of International Arbitration) where she also pursues her PhD. Lilit is fluent in Russian and French and has a working knowledge of several other languages.
Contact lnagapetyan@candey.com
Harry Bithell
Pupil Barrister
Harry graduated from the University of Manchester with a first-class degree in law. He went on to complete the Bachelor of Civil Law at University College, Oxford where he specialised in commercial law, taking options in commercial remedies, restitution of unjust enrichment, and the conflict of laws. Harry was awarded scholarships by the Inner Temple and undertook the BPTC at City Law School. Before joining CANDEY, Harry taught contract and trusts at King’s College London and worked as a research assistant on projects concerning punitive damages in private law and the doctrine of frustration following COVID-19.
Contact hbithell@candey.com
Alexander Farara
Pupil Barrister
Alexander completed his legal studies and undertook the BPTC at City Law School in 2017/18. Alexander has prior experience in the range of work undertaken at CANDEY having previously worked in the BVI office of offshore commercial firms.
Contact afarara@candey.com
Matthew Rogers
Pupil Barrister
Matthew studied Undergraduate and Master’s Degrees in Law at St John’s College, Cambridge. During his time as an undergraduate, he was awarded a James William Squire Scholarship and a Wright Prize (for receiving a First ranking in the top 5% of the year). His Master’s specialised in Commercial Law (First Class Honours). He is a Lord Denning Scholar of Lincoln’s Inn and was awarded an Outstanding on the Bar Professional Training Course at City Law School (2018/19).
Contact mrogers@candey.com
Lissy Verrall
Pupil Barrister
Lissy read Government and History at the London School of Economics. She achieved a Distinction in her Graduate Diploma in Law at City Law School, where she was an Inner Temple Exhibition scholar. Lissy received the Princess Royal Scholarship for the Bar Course, which was completed at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy. Before joining Candey, Lissy worked at the Ministry of Justice where she worked on a range of legal policy issues, from the creation of new sexual offences to amending regulations related to matrimonial law.
Contact lverrall@candey.com
Charlotte Baker
Paralegal
Charlotte was an academic scholar at Jesus College, Oxford, where she graduated with a First Class degree in History in 2018. She went on to achieve a Distinction in a Master’s degree in Modern European History. In 2019 Charlotte received a Jesus College Sankey Scholarship, before completing the Graduate Diploma in Law at City Law School with Distinction. Prior to joining CANDEY Charlotte was awarded a Lord Denning Scholarship by Lincoln’s Inn and completed the Bar Vocational Studies course.
Contact cbaker@candey.com
Cettrin Divonin
Paralegal
Cettrin joined the firm in 2015 and attained her law degree from Birkbeck, University of London, whilst working full time. During her six years with CANDEY, Cettrin has been involved in a wide range of commercial litigation claims including high value engineering disputes in the Technology and Construction Court, disputes in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court as well as other divisions of the High Court and the Employment Tribunal. She commences her training contract with CANDEY in 2022.
Contact cdivonin@candey.com
Sheriar Khan
Paralegal
Sheriar graduated with a First Class Degree in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), before completing the LLM at Darwin College, Cambridge. He was awarded the Sir Dingle Foot Scholarship from Gray’s Inn and undertook the BPTC at City Law School. Prior to joining CANDEY, Sheriar worked in the international arbitration practice at a leading magic circle law firm in Germany.
Contact skhan@candey.com
Callum Reid-Hutchings
Paralegal
Callum was awarded a First in Law from Swansea University, where he won several academic prizes for best performance in different modules. Thereafter he studied the Bar Professional Training Course at City Law School under a fully funded Lord Justice Holker Scholarship (Gray’s Inn). Callum then went onto complete a LLM at the University of Cambridge in Commercial Law under a 3 Verulam Building Scholarship, in which he achieved First Class Honours and won the Jennings Prize for Outstanding Academic Performance. Whilst at Cambridge he also represented the University in Willem C. Vis Moot. Prior to joining CANDEY, Callum worked for a silk as a research assistant. He also now is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster in commercial law.
Contact creid-hutchings@candey.com
Omar Tahir
Paralegal
Omar was awarded a First in Law from the University of Leicester before completing a Master of Laws in Finance at the ILF, Goethe University, Frankfurt. He was awarded numerous undergraduate awards, including the Hawkins Hatton Prize for the best performance in Company Law and recently completed the BPTC as an Advocacy Scholar. Prior to joining CANDEY, Omar worked at a leading international law firm, gaining experience in cross-border banking, financial markets and dispute resolution.
Read more | Contact otahir@candey.com
Rory Turnbull
Paralegal
Rory graduated with the top first in Theology from the University of Oxford in 2017. After remaining at Oriel College for a master’s degree, achieving a distinction, he completed the GDL and BPTC at City Law School as the recipient of the Jules Thorn and Queen Mother Scholarships from Middle Temple. In 2020, he won the Rosamund Smith Mooting Competition, and was awarded the Ede and Ravenscroft Prize for best speaker in the final.
Contact rturnbull@candey.com
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