Clifford Chance

United Kingdom highlights

• Representing 4 global talent agencies in a market-defining dispute with FIFA and the FA in a successful Rule K arbitration challenge to the implementation of fee caps.
• Representing a Premier League football club in arbitration and disciplinary proceedings relating to alleged breaches of the Premier League rules.
• Representing a FTSE 100 gambling business in Commercial Court proceedings relating for a breach of post M&A warranties involving irregularities discovered post purchase.
• Representing a foreign corporation, its directors and officers against claims brought against them in the High Court of England and Wales (Technology Division) for breach of contract and in tortious claims including procurement of breach of contract and unlawful means conspiracy.
• Representing professional athletes in connection with anti-doping investigations.

Australian highlights

• Representing a mining joint venture in its successful claim against the State of Queensland for the recovery of royalties mistakenly paid to the State.
• Acting for an ASX listed company in a claim brought against its joint venture participants seeking the recovery of the Joint Venture Participants’ portion of overriding royalties (USD $60m) payable to a third party arising out of a Texan arbitration award in favour of the third party.
• Acting for QSuper (now part of the Australian Retirement Trust) and related entities in an action before the Supreme Court of Queensland seeking the recovery of funds defrauded by a former QSuper employee.
• Acting for a Government Owned Corporation in connection with commercial proceedings arising from the collision by a helicopter with critical infrastructure.
• Assisting an ASX listed company in connection to an investigation by ASIC in relation to suspected contraventions of civil penalty provisions and criminal conduct in respect of continuous disclosure obligations, provision of potentially false information to the ASX and breach of directors duties.