Sam Whiteley is a London-based lawyer with a BA in English from the University of Oxford and a law degree from City University, University of London. He passed his English Bar exams in 2017 (also at the University of London). Sam spent a year in the litigation department of Macfarlanes LLP, where he worked on various matters involving Russia and the CIS. Subsequently, during his two years working in-house on the litigation team at Shell International Limited, he worked on numerous arbitrations, both commercial and investor-state, and on a range of English High Court litigation.
Sam’s professional and academic interests include civil and criminal fraud, international arbitration, and commercial litigation.
Sam will begin his training as a solicitor at Peters & Peters in September 2021.
The district court of the Hague has ruled against the former majority shareholders of OJSC Yukos Oil Company seeking to enforce Energy Charter Treaty arbitration awards of over US$50 billion. At the end of October this year, the court lifted the attachment the shareholders had previously secured over two Russian vodka trademarks, Moskovskaya and Stolichnaya. […]
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