[February 13, 2012]

Team of International Litigation and Arbitration Lawyers Joins Brown Rudnick's Rapidly Growing London Office

Brown Rudnick, an international law firm with offices in the US and Europe, today announced that a highly regarded international litigation and arbitration team has joined the Firm's London office. The group is led by dual qualified partner Nicholas Tse, an English barrister & French Avocat, who is also joined by two senior & one mid-level associates, and a supporting team of trainees/stagiaires. Before moving to Brown Rudnick, Nicholas founded and led the International Dispute Resolution team at top French international law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel's London office.

Nicholas Tse, Partner, Brown Rudnick (Photo: Business Wire)

Nicholas said of his move: "I have spent eleven fruitful years at Gide in Paris and London, working on multi-jurisdictional disputes and serving clients from the US, England, France, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, but am greatly looking forward to this exciting new challenge. Together with the talent, energy and experience of the international litigation team that Brown Rudnick has assembled in the US and London, I believe that we will be a go-to firm for handling major multi-jurisdictional disputes, in arbitration and before State courts, both in England and in foreign jurisdictions such as Paris, the DIFC Court in Dubai, and across the Middle East and Africa."

An experienced advocate with a diverse client base of multinationals, governments, & financial institutions, Nicholas' practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation.

He specializes in resolving international commercial disputes with a multi-jurisdictional flavor. He has been involved in a number of notable cases in the English Courts, including the successful application for an Article 28 Stay under the Judgments Regulation (44/2001) in Masri v CCIC & others [2011] EWHC 1780 (Comm):http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Comm/2011/1780.html.

In addition to his experiencein English courts, Nicholas has developed a track record trying cases in offshore jurisdictions such as Bermuda, the BVI, Cayman, Jersey and the Dubai International Financial Centre Court. Nicholas also has experience in arbitrating international commercial disputes in London, Paris, Geneva and Dubai. He currently serves as counsel in a number of ongoing international arbitrations. Fluent in both French and English, Nicholas was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1995, and has since added the Paris Bar, the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, and as an advocate at the Dubai International Financial Centre Court.

Nicholas and his team are currently active in a number of complex international arbitrations before ICC, LCIA, and LMAA tribunals, and in notable litigation before the DIFC Courts (see CFI 14/ 2010¹ & CA001/2011²) and before the Dubai World Tribunal (DWT 0007/2010).

The team will work closely with Neil Micklethwaite, head of Brown Rudnick's Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group in London.

According to Brown Rudnick's CEO Joseph F. Ryan, "Nicholas and his team are a great fit for our London office given their collegial nature, entrepreneurial mindset, strong legal skills and outreach to many emerging markets we are already targeting. Nicholas will help us extend our brand by building, together with our existing team, a strong international litigation and arbitration practice based in London."

The addition of this team is in keeping with Brown Rudnick's strategic growth plan for the London market, and the Firm expects to continue to attract top legal talent in that region. In recent months, Brown Rudnick has added six partners and six associates to the London office, in areas such as restructuring, finance, M&A and fund formation, which are critical to building on the Firm's core strength in servicing hedge, venture and private equity fund clients and their portfolio companies. Massimo Galli, a corporate lawyer with extensive equity and debt capital market experience in both the US and Europe (in particular Italy) arrived from White & Case, and Nick Terras, a high-profile funds and structured products lawyer arrived from Ashurst. Former Chadbourne & Parke partners Adrian Harris and Alper Deniz joined the Firm's International Restructuring Group and Finance Group, respectively. The Firm also added Bernard McEvoy, a senior Irish corporate lawyer, and Georgie Collins, the former Head of Intellectual Property & Media at Lawrence Graham LLP, to the growing corporate and IP practices.

About Brown Rudnick LLP

Brown Rudnick is an AmLaw 200 firm with offices in the United States and Europe. With relentless focus on the client's objectives, the Firm represents clients from around the world in high stakes litigation and business transactions. Our clients include public and private corporations, multinational Fortune 100 businesses and start-up enterprises. We also represent investors, as well as official and ad hoc creditors committees in today's largest corporate restructurings, both domestically and abroad. The Brown Rudnick Center for the Public interest is an innovative model combining the Firm's pro bono, charitable giving and community volunteer efforts. For more information, please visit www.brownrudnick.com.

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