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Most of the work handled at 7KBW has an international character, and as a
result members have extensive experience of private international law.
Members
deal on a day-to-day basis with questions of jurisdiction and the
recognition of foreign judgments, including the application of Council
Regulation (EC) No 44/2001, the application of the Brussels and Lugano
Conventions, and the application of domestic legislation and common law
rules. 7KBW has been involved in some of the most important recent
litigation relating to Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001, including Allianz srl v. West Tankers Inc (The Front Comor), in which the scope of
the Article 1(2)(d) exclusion of arbitration was considered by Colman
J, the House of Lords and finally the ECJ.
Members deal equally
frequently with choice-of-law questions, including those demanding the
application of the new Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 on the law applicable
to contractual obligations (Rome I) and the new Regulation (EC) No
864/2007 on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (Rome II).
Members also have extensive experience of the various forms of
interim relief, such as freezing orders and anti-suit injunctions, that
play a vital role in international commercial litigation. 7KBW has again
been involved in some of the most important recent litigation, such as Deutsche Bank AG v Highland Crusader Offshore Partners LP, in which
Burton J and the Court of Appeal considered the grant of anti-suit
injunctions in favour of parties benefiting from non-exclusive
jurisdiction agreements. Please see the ‘Injunctions and Arrests’ section of this site for further details of this area of practice.
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