Sadaat Cheema
Sadaat Cheema focuses his practice on high-value, multi-jurisdictional commercial, offshore, and regulatory disputes. He has advised and represented a broad range of clients in banking and financial services, energy, natural resources, the automotive industry and technology.
Supreme Court Clears the Air on ‘Force Majeure’ Clauses
By Jack Thorne and Sadaat Cheema on May 28, 2024
Posted In Court Judgment, Transportation & Logistics, United Kingdom
The UK’s Supreme Court has issued an important judgment clarifying the extent to which parties are required to use reasonable endeavours to avoid force majeure. Force majeure, or in layman’s terms ‘act of god’, is a specified, and generally unforeseen and disruptive, event which may mean that one or both parties to a contract are...
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The Elusive ‘Anti-Anti-Arbitration Injunction’
By Sadaat Cheema on May 28, 2024
Posted In Arbitration, Court Judgment, Oil & Gas, Transportation & Logistics, United Kingdom
The recent decision of the High Court in Euronav Shipping NV v Black Swan Petroleum DMCC [2024] EWHC 896 (Comm) illustrates when a party may be unable to enforce an arbitration agreement which is otherwise valid and enforceable. In the present case, Euronav succeeded in satisfying all of the elements of the test for an injunction...
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Deutsche Bank Anti-Suit Injunction
By Romilly Holland and Sadaat Cheema on Oct 21, 2023
Posted In Arbitration, Court Judgment, Banking & Finance, United Kingdom
The recent decision of the Court of Appeal (the Court) in Deutsche Bank v Ruschemalliance LLC [2023] EWCA Civ 1144 (Deutsche Bank) confirms the strong interest in favour of granting anti-suit relief to hold parties to their arbitration agreements, even where the seat of arbitration is in a jurisdiction that does not itself provide for anti-suit...
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