Deepak Nambisan
Call date
1998
Summary of Practice:
"provides 'a top-class service and is fantastic with clients'" – Legal 500 (2011)
"an extremely strong individual who is very client and solicitor-friendly" – Chambers & Partners (2011)
Deepak is well-established and widely recognised as a leading practitioner in commercial dispute resolution and is currently recommended by legal directories in the following practice areas: Banking & Finance, Civil Fraud, Commercial Dispute Resolution, International Arbitration and Professional Negligence. He is recommended in The Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, Chambers Global Guide and Legal Experts and also by Legal Week as one of its "Stars at the Bar". Market comments in directories in recent years include the following:
- "gets things done, often before you think of asking – and everything is always of an exacting standard"
- "clear advice… extremely responsive… also a very bullish advocate, and a pleasure to watch in court"
- "a skilled practitioner with the rare ability to distil reams of complex information into a digestible and convincing argument"
- "pegged for future stardom"
- "clever and commercially aware"
- "well-liked for his 'approachability, conscientiousness and switched on brain'"
- "sources praise him for his 'dynamism and drive'"
- "praise abounds for his 'diligence and commitment'"
Deepak has acted in many of the major commercial disputes of recent times, including Rusal v Norilsk, the BTA litigation, Intercontinental Bank v Akingbola, the 9/11 insurance disputes, the collapse of Fortress Re, Tajik Aluminium v Ermatov, AWG v Morrison, BAA v Ryanair, EIRC v Curzon and the Codelco litigation. Much of his work is international and he has wide experience of the laws of other jurisdictions, including BVI, Chilean, Cypriot, German, Kazakh, Kenyan, Russian, St. Kitts & Nevis, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss and Tajik law. Deepak is also a member of the New York Bar.
Deepak regularly appears as an advocate before a wide range of tribunals and is equally comfortable as sole Counsel or as part of a larger team of barristers. He was seconded to a leading City firm at the beginning of his career and understands the demands placed on solicitors and the need for all members of a team, no matter how large or how small, to work together closely and to add value. He is always contactable, no matter how minor the query, and provides intelligent, robust and (most importantly) commercial solutions to his clients’ problems. He encourages and welcomes all feedback, whether given to him directly or to his clerks.
Deepak has been one of the Attorney General's Junior Counsel to the Crown since 2001 and he is the co-author of Paolini & Nambisan on Directors' and Officers' Liability Insurance (2008, Informa), winner of the 2009 BILA Prize for "the most notable contribution to literature in the field of law as it affects insurance."
Deepak is also the co-author of the chapter on company directors in Simpson, Professional Negligence & Liability (2005-). He is legal advisor to the hit BBC1 drama series Mistresses and he is also a trustee of the charity Anno's Africa, a creative arts education project for children in Kenya.
Practice Areas:
Deepak has particular expertise in the following practice areas, listed in alphabetical order (please click on the link above to download a copy of Deepak's full CV):
- Arbitration
- Aviation
- Banking, finance & financial services
- Civil fraud & asset tracing claims
- Commercial litigation
- Commercial disputes in the sports & entertainment industries
- Competition law follow-on damages claims
- Employment law with a commercial dimension
- Insurance & reinsurance, including D&O insurance
- Professional negligence
- Regulatory, disciplinary & administrative law
Current Work:
Please do not hesitate to contact Deepak or his clerks if you would like further details about his capacity, or current workload which includes the following:
- Acting for hedge fund managers in US$150m+ claim in the courts of the Cayman Islands with former member of Chambers, Lord Falconer QC, now Senior Counsel with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, London
- Acting for underwriting agent and pool in US$35m reinsurance arbitration arising out of the 9/11 property damage and business interruption claims
- Part of the team led by former member of Chambers, Lord Goldsmith QC, now Chair of Debevoise & Plimpton's European litigation practice, which succeeded in having a $3.5 billion freezing injunction set aside. The dispute is part of a Russian shareholder battle over the $46 billion company, Russia's largest producer of nickel and palladium
- Multi-million pound claim against leading global broadcaster concerning global preschool animation property
- Multi-million pound claim for breach of fiduciary duty against former director of leading manufacturer of electronic cigarettes
- Acting for various D&O insurers and insureds in a wide variety of coverage disputes
- Acting for major US software developer in insurance dispute
- Acting for automotive, clothing and furniture manufacturers in a number of multi-million pound follow-on damages claims arising out of the Threads and Fasteners cartels
Pro Bono Work:
- Bar Pro Bono Unit work
- Some time Legal Adviser, University House Legal Advice Centre, Bethnal Green
- Assisted on a number of death row appeals to Privy Council
Interests:
Family, friends, cinema, Ibiza and a difficult battle to avoid Blackberry ownership