Roger Masefield KC

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Roger Masefield has 25 years’ litigation experience in all aspects of commercial law (including arbitration, banking, civil fraud, energy, and insurance / reinsurance). Since taking silk in 2013, he has been instructed as leading counsel in a wide range of high profile and high value matters, including claims on behalf of the Libyan Investment Authority against both Goldman Sachs and Societe Generale (each worth more than one billion dollars); claims in the BVI against companies owned and controlled by Isabel dos Santos (involving a two billion dollar freezing injunction); and claims on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria against JP Morgan (worth in excess of 875 million dollars), and against the oil majors Royal Dutch Shell plc and Eni SpA (worth in excess of three billion dollars). Before taking silk, as a senior junior, Roger Masefield was involved in the high profile Berezovsky v Abramovich litigation (worth in excess of 5 billion dollars). Over the last two years, Roger Masefield has appeared regularly (in person and by video-link) in the English Commercial Court and Court of Appeal; in the High Court and Court of Appeal in the British Virgin Islands; and in the Court of Appeal in Dubai.