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Piers Plumptre

Piers
Plumptre

Associate Attorney

CONTACT INFO

pplumptre@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+44 (0)20 7071 4271

FAX:+44 (0)20 7070 9271

London

Telephone House, 2-4 Temple Avenue, London, EC4Y 0HB United Kingdom

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PRACTICE

International Arbitration Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement Litigation Transnational Litigation

BIOGRAPHY

Piers Plumptre is an English qualified associate working in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Mr. Plumptre is a member of the Dispute Resolution and International Arbitration Groups.

Mr. Plumptre’s practice includes international arbitration and enforcement, complex commercial litigation, financial services disputes, and international fraud and white collar crime. He has extensive experience of international litigation and arbitration matters, spanning multiple jurisdictions, and in a wide variety of sectors.

Mr. Plumptre’s recent commercial arbitration experience includes acting for a major international contractor in a US$ 4 billion dollar ICC arbitration arising out of a Middle Eastern infrastructure project, and acting for a global mining company in a US$ 2 billion LCIA arbitration (and related English High Court proceedings) concerning a long-term supply contract.

Mr. Plumptre has significant investment treaty arbitration experience, including ongoing representation of the former shareholders in a major oil company in a long-running US$ 6 billion UNCITRAL arbitration against the Russian Federation. Mr. Plumptre has also represented an Egyptian telecoms company in an ICSID arbitration against Canada, and continues to act for a major personal care products company in an ICSID Additional Facility arbitration against Venezuela.

Mr. Plumptre also regularly acts for clients seeking to enforce arbitral awards and judgments, both in the UK and elsewhere. Examples include recently seeking and obtaining a freezing injunction and related relief from the English High Court, in connection with a US$ 550 million ICC arbitration award arising out of a mining dispute. He has also appeared (as junior to Charlie Falconer) in the recent proceedings bought by Tethyan Copper Company in the BVI (where he is admitted to practice), seeking to enforce an ICSID award worth more than US$ 6 billion against the Government of Pakistan.

Mr. Plumptre’s experience of offshore litigation also includes acting for UBS in BVI proceedings brought by the liquidator of the largest Madoff feeder funds to recover monies paid out during the lives of the funds; including representing UBS before the BVI High Court, the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal and the Privy Council (sitting as the ultimate BVI appellate court). He is also currently acting for a US individual in UK High Court proceedings in relation to alleged fraud in the metals trading industry.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Plumptre completed his pupillage at a leading commercial/chancery barristers’ chambers, having been called to the Bar of England and Wales in November 2011. Reflective of the international nature of his practice, he is also admitted to the bar of the British Virgin Islands.  In 2016/2017, he spent 18 months working in Gibson Dunn’s New York Office, focusing primarily on international arbitration.

EDUCATION

BPP Law School - 2011 Bar Professional Training Crs.

Oxford Institute of Legal Practice - 2010 Graduate Diploma in Law

University of Oxford - 2009 Bachelor of Arts

ADMISSIONS

Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI)

England & Wales - Barrister

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Client Alert - June 29, 2021 | Enforcement of Arbitral Awards against a Sovereign State: UK Supreme Court Reinstates the Service Requirements in General Dynamics v Libya
Webcasts - April 14, 2020 | COVID-19 UK Weekly Webinar – April 14, 2020
Client Alert - March 31, 2020 | English Law Force Majeure Clauses: A 4-Step Checklist & Flowchart
Client Alert - February 21, 2020 | UK Supreme Court Paves the Way for Enforcement of an ICSID Award in the Long-Running <em>Micula v Romania</em> Dispute
Client Alert - February 12, 2020 | Coronavirus and Force Majeure: Addressing Epidemics in LNG and Other Commodities Contracts
Client Alert - July 1, 2018 | London Diversity Committee Newsletter – July 2018
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