Calum Mulderrig

Practice Overview

Calum maintains a broad commercial litigation and arbitration practice encompassing civil fraud, banking, cryptoasset and finance disputes, investment treaty arbitration, and disputes involving complex conflict of laws issues.

Calum has appeared unled in the High Court, both the Commercial Court and the Chancery Division, as well as appearing regularly in the County Courts and before the courts of the DIFC. In addition, Calum has broad experience before international arbitration tribunals, including ICSID, the PCA, the LCIA and the ICC Court.

Examples of Current and Recent Matters:

• Currently acting for investors bringing claims under s. 90A FSMA 2000 for the publication of misleading information by two publicly listed companies (led by Andrew Onslow QC).
• Currently acting for a large offshore trust defending breach of contract claims brought by an individual related to pension entitlements (led by Jonathan Nash QC).
• Currently acting for a middle-eastern State in defence of proceedings brought by an investor under the OIC Agreement before the ICC Court (led by Christopher Harris QC).
• Currently acting for a large business in proceedings under s.68 of the Arbitration Act 1996, arising out of allegations of alleged bias in underlying ICC arbitration proceedings (led by Ali Malek QC).
• Currently acting for an individual before the DIFC Court seeking to appeal a fraud claim obtained at first instance (led by Rajesh Pillai QC).
• Currently acting for a large retail bank and a challenger bank defending separate claims brought by customers for alleged breaches of account terms and conditions (unled).
• Recently obtained a USD 100 million award for a claimant arising out of a breach by an insurer to honour the terms of a political risk insurance policy (led by Christopher Harris QC).
• Recently obtained a freezing injunction in the High Court and service out of the jurisdiction in relation to claims arising out of a misappropriation of an individual’s cryptocurrency assets (unled).
• Recently acted in third party debt order proceedings in respect of pension assets (unled).
• Recently acted for a European bank in arbitration proceedings against a steel trader in relation to negligent misstatement and debt claims, as well as earlier jurisdiction challenges (led by Rajesh Pillai QC).
• Recently obtained a EUR 30 million for a claimant in an ICSID dispute against a European state arising out of alleged breaches of treaty standards in respect of a hydropower project (led by Christopher Harris QC).
• Recently acted for a European state opposing enforcement of an ICSID Award (led by Ali Malek QC).
• Previously appeared in the Commercial Court in relation to discontinuance of proceedings related to civil fraud and cryptocurrency claims (unled).
• Recent experience successfully defending large retail banks in PPI claims in the County Court (unled).
• Recent experience in a variety of unled applications and hearings, including applications for summary judgment, set aside of third party disclosure, relief from sanctions and costs in pre-action disclosure, as well as appearing at CCMCs in the High Court and County Court (all unled).

Prior to transferring to the Bar, Calum trained as a solicitor in London and Dubai with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and practised as an associate solicitor in London with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP. He holds law degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford and was awarded scholarships at both.