Yasseen Gailani Bio

Yasseen is a partner in the London office who focuses on complex, high value commercial disputes in the banking, finance, financial services, restructuring and insolvency, white collar, civil fraud and sanctions spaces. His experience spans an array of sectors, including fund management, property, telecoms, aviation, oil and gas, insurance, construction, utilities and metals. For the last five years, Yasseen has been named as a “Next Generation Partner” in The Legal 500, and is praised by his clients as “a truly outstanding lawyer” with a “natural, fierce intellect” whose work is “always first class”. Yasseen’s practice routinely involves representing clients in bet the company cases with hundreds of millions, or billions, of dollars at stake. He has deep expertise in disputes relating to derivatives and structured financial products, benchmark manipulation, margin calls, valuation issues, private equity, M&A, and joint ventures. His practice is heavily international, with a focus in recent years on advising UK and US clients on complex transatlantic disputes; European (and especially Italian) clients involved in disputes in the UK; complex cross-border restructuring, insolvency and enforcement mandates; and, drawing on his Iraqi heritage, Middle Eastern clients in cases before the English courts and international arbitration tribunals.