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Areas of Practice
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Representative Experience
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Professional Background
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Professional/Civic Activities
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Education
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Additional Information
Areas of Practice
Sean is an assistant lawyer in the dispute resolution and litigation department of the firm's London office. He has represented clients in a wide range of domestic and international commercial disputes. His practise encompasses English High Court and multi-jurisdictional litigation, institutional and ad hoc arbitration, mediation and the conduct of settlement negotiations. He advises on the drafting and negotiation of dispute resolution clauses in transactional documents, and on potential claims and liabilities in connection with mergers and acquisitions. His experience spans many sectors of the economy, including natural resources, manufacture, importation and distribution, construction, property development, telecoms, professional and financial services.
Representative Experience
- Resisting various claims being brought against former directors of Farepak Food and Gifts Limited and its parent company, European Home Retail plc.
- Representing a leading diamond broker and a number of its American, Israeli and Indian clients in connection with contractual and other disputes.
- Advising in relation to claims arising from the sale of an Eastern European cable telecoms business.
- Acting in the High Court in connection with a dispute between the owners of and investors in a globally pre-eminent South-East Asian business.
- Representing parties to the LCIA arbitration of disputes arising out of the sale of a business in the Ukraine.
- Assisting in an ICC, Swiss-seated arbitration of claims brought against an American manufacturer of jet engine components by its French customer.
- Advising an American investment manager to a hedge fund in relation to claims brought in New York under Cayman law.
- Acting for a Hong Kong retail electronics manufacturer in a dispute with its English customer.
- Advising a third party in connection with the protection of Kazakh mineral rights affected by the ad hoc London-seated arbitration of a multi-jurisdictional partnership dispute.
- Advising a British national utility provider in relation to the investigation of a major fraud.
- Acting in the High Court, the Court of Appeal, the House of Lords and the European Court of Justice on behalf of blue-chip multinational corporations challenging the lawfulness of UK corporate taxes pursuant to group litigation orders.
- Bringing professional negligence claims against firms of solicitors on behalf of a number of property developers.
- Six-month secondment to the in-house legal team of a major motor manufacturer and distributor.
- Acting on behalf of a franchised network of motor dealers in the settlement of a dispute with an insurance broker.
Professional Background
Sean joined K&L Gates as a newly-qualified lawyer in October 2007, having spent more than a dozen years as an academic historian, lecturing in universities on early modern British and European history, and researching and publishing a number of works about the English revolution of 1649, and in particular the trial and execution of Charles I.
Professional/Civic Activities
- Member, London Solicitors Litigation Association
- Member, British Institute of International Comparative Law
Education
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Legal Practice Course,
College of Law, London
(2005)
(Distinction)
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Graduate Diploma in Law,
College of Law, London
(2004)
(Distinction)
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Ph.D.,
University of Manchester
(1995)
("The political culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649 to 1653" published by Manchester and Stanford University Presses in 1997 under the title, Inventing a republic)
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B.A.,
Balliol College, Oxford
(1989)
Modern History (First Class Hons)
Additional Information
Sean is a regular contributor to Arbitration World, and has written recently on subjects such as the House of Lords decision in Fiona Trust, and the ICSID Phoenix and Malaysian Historical Salvors cases.
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