Subir Kumar Karmakar FCIArb Partner - Dispute Resolution

With over thirty-years’ experience, Subir specialises in International and Commercial Arbitration and Litigation. Subir deals with high-value commercial and cross-border matters.

Initially qualifying as a Barrister in 1984, Subir became a Solicitor in 1991. Since then his High Court practice has assisted clients regarding cross-border fraud, letters of credit and guarantees, insolvency, commodities and shipping disputes, insurance claims and company disputes.

Subir specialises in International Arbitration, with expertise in matters involving metals, commodities, shipping, joint-venture and investment treaty claims and disputes. He has dealt with proceedings held under GAFTA, FOSFA, LME, LMAA, ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL arbitration rules.

He has also accepted appointments to act as an arbitrator in arbitrations held in the UK.

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Experience

Subir has been representing various clients as a Partner since 1991 and his cases include the following:

• successfully pursued claims for fraudulently diverted freight collections worth millions of US Dollars owed to a major ship owner, UASC, in several parts of the world and recovered the same in proceedings commenced against a major bank;
• successfully securing the claims of an Oil Mining Lease owner against oil companies (Cavendish Petroleum v Tusker Resources & others, reported in the Daily Telegraph);
• successfully pursuing claim for indemnity under hull policy in respect of the loss of a sunken vessel “Regal Sun”;
• successfully defended client in the face of urgent injunction proceedings in relation to the sale of a jack-up rig (Combifloat Middle East BV v. Essar Projects Limited (2019);
• acted for Claimant in commencing a substantial BIT claim against Egypt under UNCITRAL arbitration rules (Bahgat v. Egypt).

Currently, his cases include acting for a client in a dispute involving a geothermal energy project and another involving an oil refinery project.