Gordon McAllister
Overview
Clients from around the world trust Gordon McAllister to resolve their most complex and business-critical disputes. Gordon provides clear, commercial advice, counseling clients at all stages of their disputes: from advising on dispute prevention and avoidance strategies to obtaining and enforcing awards and judgments around the world.
Career & Education
- University of Warwick, B.A., first class honours, english and german literature, 2007
- Oxford Brookes University, LL.B., 2009
- Solicitor in England and Wales, Higher Rights of Audience
- Solicitor in the Republic of Ireland
- Solicitor in Northern Ireland
Professional Activities and Memberships
- Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
- ICC Young Arbitrators Forum
- London Solicitors Litigation Association
- Junior London Solicitors Litigation Association
- DIS (German Institution of Arbitration)
- Solicitors' Association of Higher Court Advocates
- International Bar Association
- German
- Spanish
- Swedish
Clients want holes, not drills. For businesses, the law is a tool. They need advice that is practical, commercial, and outcome focused.
Gordon's Insights
Client Alert | 7 min read | 10.09.24
Getting Bond(s) Out of Russia: UK Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal and Upholds Anti-suit Injunction
On 18 September 2024, the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024] UKSC 30. The judgment considers several significant issues relevant to international arbitration. Primarily, though, it reaffirms: (i) the English court’s strong support for arbitration, in general; (ii) the steps it is prepared to take to hold parties to their agreement to arbitrate; and (iii) the current position for determining the governing law of an arbitration agreement, in the absence of an express election by the parties.
Publication | 05.23.23
Press Coverage | 01.24.22
Representative Matters
Examples of recent commercial litigation representations include:
- Representing Qatar Airways in a claim against Airbus concerning the premature degradation of its fleet of A350 aircraft.
- Advising defendants with respect to allegations of a $200 million fraud.
- Representing a creditor in relation to large-scale, multijurisdictional insolvency proceedings.
- Advising an aviation insurer with respect to a dispute arising from a ground handling agreement.
- Representing a group of companies in a cartel follow-on claim in the English High Court seeking £20 million in damages for illegal price fixing across Europe.
- Defending an airline in relation to an allegation of cartel activity.
- Representing an AIM-listed transportation company in the English High Court in relation to the repudiation of an operating contract.
Examples of recent commercial arbitration representations include:
- Representing a multinational chemicals and biotechnology company in London-seated arbitration proceedings for breach of a license agreement.
- Acting as lead claimant for a French transportation company in an €800 million dispute arising from a construction project in Asia.
- Representing a South American company in an International Chamber of Commerce arbitration against a Caribbean government in relation to the construction of an aluminum smelter.
- Defending a claim for losses arising out of the operation of a state lottery.
- Defending an insurer in a $50 million claim pursuant to a Bermuda Form insurance contract.
- Advising an online accommodations reservation company in relation to an appeal against a decision of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to place an application for a generic top-level domain into a contention set.
- Representing a South African mineral and mining company in a London Court of International Arbitration proceeding, claiming damages of $190 million.
- Representing a Canadian company in an ICC arbitration against a government- and a state-owned entity, following the repudiation of a joint venture agreement.
- Providing English law advice to a Middle Eastern company in a commercial arbitration under the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration.
Examples of recent investment arbitration representations include:
- Representing an investor in an ad hoc arbitration under the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Arbitration Rules.
- Advising an international hotel developer as claimant in a $600 million dispute under Internal Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes rules.
- Advising a European construction and development consortium as claimant in an investment dispute under ICSID rules.
- Advising a claimant in relation to an application for the annulment of an ICSID award.
Gordon's Insights
Client Alert | 7 min read | 10.09.24
Getting Bond(s) Out of Russia: UK Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal and Upholds Anti-suit Injunction
On 18 September 2024, the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024] UKSC 30. The judgment considers several significant issues relevant to international arbitration. Primarily, though, it reaffirms: (i) the English court’s strong support for arbitration, in general; (ii) the steps it is prepared to take to hold parties to their agreement to arbitrate; and (iii) the current position for determining the governing law of an arbitration agreement, in the absence of an express election by the parties.
Publication | 05.23.23
Press Coverage | 01.24.22
Insights
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09.01.18
ABA International Contracts Committee Newsletter
Gordon's Insights
Client Alert | 7 min read | 10.09.24
Getting Bond(s) Out of Russia: UK Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal and Upholds Anti-suit Injunction
On 18 September 2024, the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024] UKSC 30. The judgment considers several significant issues relevant to international arbitration. Primarily, though, it reaffirms: (i) the English court’s strong support for arbitration, in general; (ii) the steps it is prepared to take to hold parties to their agreement to arbitrate; and (iii) the current position for determining the governing law of an arbitration agreement, in the absence of an express election by the parties.
Publication | 05.23.23
Press Coverage | 01.24.22
