Simon P. Camilleri is Of Counsel with over a decade of experience in international arbitration. Qualified in England and Wales, he holds an LLB from the University of London and a BCL from the University of Oxford.
Simon advises clients across a broad spectrum of cross-border disputes, with particular experience in proceedings under the LCIA, ICC, SCC, UNCITRAL, and DIS Rules. His work spans a wide range of industries, including energy, construction, banking and finance, civil fraud, and duty free and travel retail.
He has acted in high-value and complex arbitrations seated in multiple jurisdictions, frequently involving multi-national parties and intricate points of commercial and procedural law. The collective value of the cases Simon has been involved in exceeds US$10 billion.
Simon is known for his analytical rigor and strategic approach to resolving disputes efficiently and effectively.
- Representing a corporate client in LCIA arbitration proceedings in relation to a dispute with an insolvent counterparty and the recovery of funds advanced to that counterparty.
- Representing an energy company in LCIA arbitration proceedings in relation to a substantial claim for repudiatory breach of two interlinked contracts.
- Representing a special purpose vehicle in ICC arbitration proceeds for breach of a contract entered into to participate in a public tender.
- Representing a high net worth individual in claims brought against him and companies associated with him in LCIA arbitration proceedings by a Russian financial institution for failure to pay monies advanced under a series of interlinked contracts.
- Advising a major shipping company on options to enforce an arbitration award issued under the LMAA Terms against a recalcitrant middle eastern debtor.
- Serving as counsel for an international oil and gas company in arbitration proceedings concerning the construction and breach of two production sharing contracts.
- Serving as counsel for an international oil and gas company in arbitration proceedings relating to an EPC contract for the construction of a gas processing plant.
- Serving as counsel in arbitration proceedings concerning the effect of sanctions on the performance of obligations under a multi-million-dollar contract.
- Serving as counsel in arbitration proceedings relating to fraud in a tender for one of the world's largest duty free and travel retail concessions.
- Serving as counsel in arbitration proceedings relating to the enforcement of obligations under a complex series of project financing documents, with related proceedings in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands.
- Serving as counsel in arbitration proceedings relating to the enforcement of obligations under a litigation funding arrangement, with related proceedings in the Isle of Man.
- BPP Law School Higher Courts
(Civil Advocacy, 2019) - University of Oxford (St Edmund Hall)
(Bachelor of Civil Laws, 2011) - BPP Law School
(Legal Practice Course, Distinction, 2010) - University of London (King’s College)
(Laws LLB Hons, First Class, 2009)
- Solicitor, England and Wales
- Higher Rights (Civil)
- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson:
- Associate, 2014 – 2020
- Associate, 2014 – 2020
- Reed Smith LLP:
- Associate, 2013 – 2014
- ‘Between rags and riches: rethinking security for costs in international commercial arbitration’ (2021) 37 Arbitration International 851-862
- Anti-suit injunctions after Brexit | Jus Mundi Blog
- ‘Foreign restructurings and English law debts: the limits to cross-border assistance’ (with Fred Hobson, Brick Court Chambers) (2019) BJIB & FL 34(3), 167-169
- ‘Court dismisses Azerbaijan foreign representative’s application for permanent moratorium (Bakhshiyeva v Sberbank and others)’ LexisNexis
- ‘Amendments to Statements of Case: Learning the Hard Way’ (2017) 36 CJQ 297
- ‘The Enforcement of Judgments at Common Law: Submission and Abuse of Process’ (2016) 22 JIML 351
- ‘Anti-suit injunctions en el régimen de Bruselas I: ¿una cuestión de principios?’ (2014) VII(2) Arbitraje 421
- ‘Recital 12 of the Brussels I Regulation: A New Hope?’ (2013) 62(4) ICLQ 899
- ‘Third Parties and Arbitration Agreements’ [2013] LMCLQ 304
- ‘A purposive approach to ‘Modified Universalism’: CA favours a single system of distribution in cross-border insolvencies (with Kate Davies) (2013) 7 JIBFL 453
- ‘Article 23: Formal Validity, Material Validity or Both?’ (2011) 7(2) J. Priv. Int. L 297
- ‘The Front Comor – The End of Arbitration as We Know It?’ (2010) 6(1) CSLR 214
Presentations
- English Loopholes and Russian Bankruptcies’, Invited to present at the Russian Arbitration Day, August 2020
- ‘Anti-suit injunctions under the Brussels Regime: a matter of principle(s)?’ presented at the VIII International Seminar on Private International Law in Madrid, 2014