Expertise
Ulrich has represented leading investment banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions, as well as UHNWIs, major multinational corporations and insolvency practitioners in a variety of UK, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, US and numerous other jurisdictions, all with cross-border elements.
He has a particular focus on complex, international and high value litigation and arbitration, often relating to complex financial products. He also has considerable experience in international arbitrations having advised on arbitrations conducted before the ICC and the LCIA, as well as ad hoc arbitrations. Furthermore, he has significant experience advising on high-value insolvency proceedings.
Ulrich has advised on numerous cross-border, multi-million and multi-billion US dollar disputes across Europe, the Middle East, the USA and Russia. He has also conducted regulatory and ad hoc investigations for banks and other financial/ international corporate institutions.
Ulrich is acknowledged and recommended both Chambers and Legal 500 legal directories.
How do you help clients?
Through my extensive legal expertise I have helped my clients navigate through highly sensitive and complex cross-border disputes, arbitrations, commercial and financial disputes, fraud, shareholder and unfair prejudice disputes, insolvency and with enforcement and asset tracing.
I have helped my clients achieve a very high success rate in terms of favourable rulings and/ or settlements though a combination of technical excellence, a keen strategic focus on claim monetisation (claimant-side) and dilution (respondent-side).
Where my clients have either faced insolvency or needed to make recoveries from distressed counterparties, I have delivered insolvency and enforcement advice and solutions that prioritised business continuity, preserved value, and maximised creditor recoveries.
The international nature and the complexity of the matters upon which I have advised my clients means that I am widely regarded to be part of a small cadre of lawyers with a level of cross-jurisdictional litigation experience that allows me to identify extra-jurisdictional offensive and defensive legal solutions where others do not.
Experience
- Advising an UHNWI’s family with regard to protecting assets held by family companies and investment trust entities across the globe. This included defending the companies in parallel insolvency proceedings brought by a consortium of nine international banks.
- Advising one of the wealthiest families in India and the family’s group companies. Successfully defended the group across multiple proceedings (totalling in excess of US$6bn), including allegations of fraud, breach of contract, directors’ duties, worldwide freezing injunctions, Anton Piller orders and insolvency proceedings.
- Advising a leading international accountancy, risk, financial advisory and investigation company regarding several highly sensitive issues including potential Court sanctions and enormous reputational and financially damaging proceedings. Successfully persuaded the Grand Court to bring to an end those proceedings with no negative findings against the client.
- Advising founders/ senior board members of Luckin Coffee accused of orchestrating the largest fraud in Chinese corporate history. Advising same in relation to internal investigations and that of the DOJ, successfully extricating them from those investigations.
- Advising a leading Austrian bank regarding the recovery of significant assets transferred to third parties as part of a fraudulent conspiracy, also including advising on novel issues arising out of claims under previously untested statutory law.
- Advising an UHNWI on all aspects of a multi-billion US$ international LCIA arbitration.
- Advising Saudi Arabian UHNWI and his group of companies in relation to one of the largest financial disputes including allegations of non-performance, fraud, forgery and improper exercise of fiduciary duties, leading to an alleged multibillion dollar loss.
- Advising a leading global asset management in relation to potential multi-jurisdictional (UAE/ US/ UK) criminal and civil proceedings including in relation to exposure to UAE criminal and civil proceedings, and investigations by the US Inland Revenue Service and the UK’s SFO and FSA.
- Advising a leading Brazilian airline with regard to the recognition and enforcement of a Brazilian arbitration award, succeeding at court of appeal and the privy council levels.
- Advising in relation to the highest profile proceedings in the Cayman Islands regarding a very significant real estate dispute
- Advising the Joint Official Liquidators of a collapsed cryptocurrency originally issued in Canada, implementing an entirely novel way in which to protect assets in 27 jurisdictions, orchestrating international wind down proceedings and the conglomeration of multiple international entities.
- Advising the Joint Official Liquidators of a Cayman Islands Mutual Fund, including advising on complex proceedings in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Trinidad and Tobago and the US, as well as professional negligence and fraud claims for very substantial damages against the Fund’s auditors.
- Advising one of the two founders of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining servers companies in boardroom and founder shareholder disputes regarding issues of directors duties, shareholder control and ownership.