Charlotte Songwiqi

Biography

Charlotte Songwiqi is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution Team based in Al Tamimi’s Dubai office, and recently finished a secondment with Emirates NBD. Charlotte specialises in advising and representing clients with respect to a wide range of complex commercial disputes, with a particular interest in complex financial and shareholder disputes. Charlotte has experience of handling high value local and international disputes in the local UAE Courts and common law courts in the UAE including the DIFC and ADGM. Charlotte also advises on general commercial arbitrations under all of the major institutional rules.

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Recent Experience

• Acting for a Syndicate of banks in a USD 300m DIFC Court Claim in respect of unpaid conventional, Islamic and hedging liabilities, including claims for a worldwide freezing order and an application for an anti-suit injunction to prevent parallel proceedings in the onshore Dubai Courts; and parallel JJC proceedings, Dubai Court proceedings and Abu Dhabi Bankruptcy proceedings.
• Advising a major bank in relation to prospective alleged fraudulent trading claims with an estimated value of USD 1 billion in the ADGM Courts.
• Acting for a Syndicate of banks in successfully defending a Part 8 claim in the DIFC Courts brought by a panel of Trustees seeking recognition of parallel restructuring/ bankruptcy proceedings in the Abu Dhabi onshore Courts.
• Acting for an international bank in defending an alleged USD 11.5m mis-selling claim in the DIFC Courts.
• Acting on behalf of an international bank before the DIFC Courts and successfully obtaining immediate judgment in the sum of USD 55m.
• Acting for an Indian Bank in successfully defending a USD 18.51m damages claim in the DIFC Courts.
• Acting for the successful policyholders in a preliminary issues trial before the DIFC Courts in the first Covid-19 related business interruption case decided by the DIFC Court.
• Acting for a multi-national family holding company in securing a USD 55m freezing order before the DIFC Courts, in support of LCIA arbitration proceedings.