Carinne Kamdar

Carinne’s practice covers a broad spectrum of advisory and contentious work. Carinne has extensive experience in both international arbitration and commercial litigation, specialising in disputes in the technology and telecoms sectors, advising clients on the most complex contractual disputes, including involvement in early disputes managements in the course of ongoing technology projects. Carinne has taken disputes through to trial and the Court of Appeal, as well as achieving settlement pursuant to alternative dispute resolution.

• Acting for IT companies on both the supplier and customer side in relation to disputes relating to long-term services contracts, assisting in negotiating change requests, exit and other contractual disputes outside of formal dispute resolution processes.
  
• Defended a claim for GBP 27 million by EE against our client, Virgin Media O2, for breach of the exclusivity terms of a Telecommunications Supply Agreement. Led a strategy to strike the claim out at a preliminary stage on the basis of a clause excluding liability for loss of profit, and defended an appeal of the decision to the Court of Appeal.
  
• Acted for an Indian multinational IT company in an LCIA arbitration with a European bank relating to a contract for the outsourcing and transformation of the bank’s retail banking business.
  
• Acted for a cryptocurrency exchange defending claims for theft of intellectual property and inducing breach of contract, arising out of the collapse of the acquisition for the claimant company.
  
• Acted for a global streaming platform in a rate setting arbitration under the WIPO rules.
  
• Advised a client on liability in respect of a claim for in excess of GBP 40 million arising out of alleged professional negligence and breach of contract under an outsourcing and administration agreement.
  
• Acted for a state-owned oil company in Hong Kong-seated ICC arbitration proceedings in claims worth in excess of USD 100 million, succeeding on both jurisdiction and liability in respect of the operation of the sole risk provisions of a production sharing contract.
  
• Acted for a logistics company in claims in fraud against former employees.
  
• Advising on various questions of English law, including privilege, termination rights, contractual interpretation, arbitration and dispute resolution clauses and litigation and arbitration practice and procedure.

• Law Society of England & Wales
• London Solicitors Litigation Association
• Society for Computers & Law

• Singapore