Yasseen Gailani

Yasseen is a partner in the London office who focuses on complex, high value commercial litigation and arbitration matters in the banking, finance, financial services, restructuring and insolvency and civil fraud spaces. He also has significant experience in a wide array of other practice areas and sectors, including white collar, sanctions, investor-state disputes, insurance, property, M&A, private equity, private debt, telecoms, aviation, oil and gas, and metals. For the last three years, Yasseen has been named as a “Next Generation Partner” in The Legal 500, and is praised by his clients as “a truly outstanding lawyer” with a “natural, fierce intellect” whose work is “always first class”.

Yasseen originally joined the firm in 2011. In that time, he has worked on numerous multi-billion dollar claims, and has particular expertise in disputes arising out of or relating to securitisations, derivatives and structured financial products, the manipulation of benchmarks, conduct breaches by financial institutions (including mis-selling), the Eurobond markets, shareholder disputes and directors’ duties. His practice includes advising insolvency practitioners and other office holders in high net worth personal and corporate insolvency matters, alternative investment managers on event driven investment strategies, and multi-national corporates on issues of public and private international law, including sovereign immunity and jurisdiction. In recent years Yasseen has also developed significant experience in disputes relating to high value classic and prestige cars and bikes (including disputes relating to title and provenance), as well as audit negligence.