DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Senogles & Co delivers deep and broad international experience based on decades acting as expert witnesses, or alternatively, more recently, as consulting experts.
By choice, we are a specialist and approachable boutique practice, and our clients come to us … by choice.
We have extremely broad experience across business sectors and countries. If you are looking for a Big Firm ‘hired gun’’ to tell you what you want to hear, regardless of what they in fact believe, then please, keep looking…
We communicate with clarity.
International arbitration and litigation - financial expert witnesses
This is the main role we have fulfilled in recent decades. As a small firm, this allows us the relative freedom to act for clients without facing the conflicts of interest often encountered by large firms.
We have regularly acted in legal proceedings as either:
Party-appointed expert
Tribunal-appointed expert
Our deep experience includes extensive testimony (on over 70 occasions) including the routine and the unusual arbitration venues and rules: ICJ, ICSID, ICC, OIC, UNCITRAL, LCIA, Stockholm Chamber, Cairo Regional Centre. In addition, we have experience giving testimony and valuation oral opinion in front of tribunals at: TAS/CAS Tribunal d'Arbitrage du Sport [Lausanne], Iran-US Claims Tribunal [Den Haag] and the United Nations Compensation Commission [Geneva]. Litigation testimony includes the High Court in London and the Supreme Court in Gibraltar.
Geoffrey Senogles has been recognised in Lexology/Who's Who Legal since its start, and since 2017 as a Thought Leader. He has regularly been invited to speak at legal conferences internationally and since 2009 has taught lawyers on LL.M. programmes in Switzerland and in company seminars.
His own caseload has grown and diversified; recently moving away from testifying, once again, by choice.
Claim advisory consultants
SenCo is engaged by law firms, direct clients and (in particular) by third-party litigation funders to advise on claim evidence and methodologies. On such mandates, we do not opine to a tribunal as independent expert witnesses but instead, we closely advise our clients as their own expert advisers. We bring our extensive experience to the table - in effect, as part of the legal team. Our input is cost effective; we do not simply ‘double the amount of fees’ paid to accountants… We have seen over and over, that a limited scope intervention by an experienced serious adviser focusing on identifying sufficient, relevant and reliable evidence is extremely valuable in making an evolving claim more robust and, hence, eventually compelling. Similarly, we have advised clients AGAINST instigating legal proceedings - thus saving them legal fees and precious management time on a case with poor prospects from a financial / evidentiary perspective.
Third-party funders routinely draw upon our experience, knowledge and our teamwork in order to strengthen the funded claimants' case on quantum. Our advice is best sought early in a claim process - when we can have maximum impact.
We are available to discuss, at no cost and with no need to disclose parties' names, how we may help by advising you and your client.
Please contact Geoffrey Senogles for an initial conversation.
Sports disputes
We have insight and experience of sports disputes; having been engaged on disputes at TAS/CAS Lausanne of behalf of sports federations and clubs.
Over the course of many years, our partner Steve Brookfield has managed professional sports clubs (football and basketball) and knows the day-to-day reality inside a professional club's finances, challenges and operating issues. This experience and insight has proved invaluable during our past expert witness work, when acting for clients in sports financial disputes.
We have a unique blend of experience - of testifying on financial matters in international legal proceedings on multiple occasions - and of running professional sports clubs/leagues. We also still play - football and touch rugby - every week!