Full Profile
Badar is an international arbitration lawyer, with experience across a range of commercial and investment treaty arbitrations (acting for both states and investors). Badar’s principal focus is on disputes arising on large risks involving the Bermuda Form (New York substantive law and English arbitration procedure). Badar’s international arbitration experience includes advising clients in relation to ad hoc proceedings, as well as those brought before the LCIA, ICC, SIAC, DIFC, DIAC and ICSID.
Badar has experience of acting in a range of complex coverage disputes, with a particular focus upon North America, and including those arising from product liability claims, claims by pharmaceutical companies in respect of mass tort claims in the United States, D&O coverage, catastrophic environmental incidents arising from extractive activities, political risk and claims relating to COVID-19. Badar also assists in court proceedings in the United States.
Badar additionally has experience of acting for state and corporate clients in high value disputes arising out of the energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors. His experience within those sectors includes advising on claims relating to mining and refining projects, offshore farmout interests, expropriation of interests in oil blocks, and the interpretation of long-term product sharing contracts relating to oil and gas fields, across Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Badar also regularly advises clients in relation to anti-suit injunctions brought in the Commercial Court, particularly relating to US-related litigation brought in breach of arbitration agreements.
Badar is a native Arabic speaker and has extensive experience in both advising clients based in the Middle East and North Africa and on matters arising out of those regions.
Experience
- Acting for multiple insurers on coverage claims brought by pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors and retailers and rising from the opioid crisis in the US.
- acting for an insurer in an international arbitration against a US defence company on a claim arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Acting for multiple insurers with respect to a product liability coverage dispute concerning losses in excess of $300m arising from a product installed in residential homes.
- Advising an insurer in relation to anti-suit proceedings and coverage issues arising under a D&O and corporate liability insurance policy in respect of DoJ investigations into one of the insured’s directors.
- Acted on behalf of the successful respondents in a UK Court of Appeal challenge to an anti-suit injunction preventing proceedings continuing in Canada (John Wood Group Plc v Chubb EU & Ors [2022] EWCA Civ 781)
- Acted for a South Asian State in defending a treaty claim under the UNCITRAL Rules concerning a bauxite mining and alumina refining project.
- Successfully acting for a US based medical technology company in a claim under the DIFC-LCIA Rules relating to the misappropriation of IP and trade secrets by a JV partner.
- Acted for an investor in US$105 million ICSID claim against Azerbaijan arising out of an investment in the construction sector under the Turkey-Azerbaijan BIT
- Acted for a sovereign wealth fund in a series of multi-billion US Dollar High Court and Court of Appeal claims against global investment banks and certain intermediaries in respect of derivative investments that arose from transactions allegedly procured by a fraudulent and corrupt scheme.
- Advised on a DIAC arbitration concerning an investment in a financial services JV in KSA.
