Pryderi Diebschlag

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Pryderi has a broad practice covering international arbitration and litigation with a focus on commercial disputes arising out of joint ventures, the energy and commodities sector and commercial fraud.

He has represented clients in UNCITRAL, LCIA, LMAA, SIAC and HKIAC arbitrations and is regularly consulted in relation to planned commodities transactions, including structuring long term off-take agreements involving joint ventures, multifaceted financing arrangements and emerging markets.

In addition, Pryderi frequently represents clients in the Hong Kong courts in litigation arising out of email frauds and financial crime, where he conducts his own advocacy.

Prior to moving to Hong Kong in 2015, Pryderi’s experience includes three years with a leading Energy & Natural Resources disputes team in London.

Pryderi is also actively engaging in Hong Kong’s arbitration community – he is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and sits on the committee for the Young Members Group of the East Asia Branch, an executive committee member of the Hong Kong Maritime Law Association, accredited by the HKIAC to act as Tribunal Secretary in ad hoc and institutional arbitration, and an editorial assistant for one of Asia’s longest running legal journals, the Asian Dispute Review. Pryderi has been recognised as one of Hong Kong’s most influential lawyers under 40.

Pryderi is admitted to practice law in Hong Kong and England & Wales.

Experience

• Acting for a US technology and energy storage company in HKIAC administered arbitration against a Chinese battery manufacturer with a value in excess of US$45 million;
• Advising a major Chinese bank in a multi-party, multi-contract HKIAC arbitration arising out of alleged breaches of shareholders' agreements and subscription agreements with a value in excess of US$100 million;
• Acting for a Chinese technology company in an SIAC arbitration relating to breach of warranty claims with a value in excess of US$13 million;
• Representing a global logistics company in relation to customs investigations for alleged infringements of Hong Kong import and export legislation;
• Acting for a global logistics company in HKIAC arbitration against a major airline for alleged breaches of aircraft charters with a value in excess of US$5 million;
• Representing a listed commodity trader in numerous ad hoc and institutional arbitrations under UNCITRAL, LMAA, SIAC and HKIAC rules, primarily arising out of coal, steel and iron ore sale and purchase agreements;
• Acting for multiple shipowners in a consolidated LMAA arbitration relating to breach of fiduciary duties by a technical ship manager;
• Advising several parties in High Court litigation brought by the regulator for their alleged roles in a "pump and dump" market manipulation scheme;
• Representing a multinational toy company in High Court litigation to recover millions of US dollars lost as a result of email fraud;
• Advising a listed PRC technology company in multiple software licensing disputes;
• Acting for a Hong Kong headquartered multinational marketing company in a shareholders' dispute;
• Advising a Hong Kong headquartered clothing company in relation to an agency dispute; and
• Representing a British waste management company in negotiations with joint venture partners and tender for the construction and operation of an energy facility in Hong Kong.