Roderick Cordara KC

Practice Areas

Roderick Cordara KC is a law graduate of Cambridge University (Trinity Hall, first class degree). He is a Leading Counsel (‘Silk’) in the UK and Australia. He is admitted to practice in the Courts of the UK, Australia, Singapore (SICC), and the European Court of Justice.

He has an unusually wide range of specialisations within his overall international commercial practice: ranging from “Counsel and arbitrator in shipbuilding matters” to “perhaps the most knowledgeable indirect tax lawyer at the Bar.”

He is unique at the Bar in being a Leader in both commercial and tax fields, which combine both private and public law issues. He has an international practice, both in commercial and investor state arbitration, as well as appearing before supra-national judicial bodies in treaty related issues (usually tax). As a leading tax practitioner, he has amassed extensive public law experience (both domestic and international) in litigation and arbitration on tax issues involving governments and parastatal entities.

His arbitration practice focusses in particular on disputes – both private law and treaty based – relating to the oil & gas, power generation, and renewables, sectors, principally in Asia, UK Offshore, and East and West Africa. In this context, he has acted in energy-related disputes (eg production sharing, or insurance-related) in relation to fields in Central Asia, India, Africa, the Far East, and UK Offshore.