DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Senogles & Co brings extensive international experience acting as expert witnesses, or alternatively, as expert advisers.  Our experience is provided to clients of our specialist and approachable boutique practice.  We have extremely broad experience across business sectors and countries.

We are ideally located for sports disputes; our office is in Nyon, Switzerland (near the homes of UEFA, ECA, FIBA and close to the TAS/CAS in Lausanne). 

International arbitration and litigation - financial expert witnesses

This is the main role we have fulfilled in recent decades. A small firm by choice, this allows us the relative freedom to act for clients without facing conflicts of interest. 

We have regularly acted in legal proceedings as either:

  1. Party-appointed expert

  2. Tribunal-appointed expert

Our experience includes extensive testimony (around 70 occasions) covering the following well-known arbitration rules: ICJ, ICSID, ICC, OIC, UNCITRAL, LCIA, Stockholm Chamber, Cairo Regional Centre.  We also 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].   Common law 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 has taught lawyers on LL.M. programmes in Switzerland since 2009/10.

His own caseload has grown and diversified; moving away from testifying.

Claim advisory consultants

SenCo is engaged by law firms and (in particular) by third-party litigation funders to advise on claim evidence and methodologies.  On such mandates, we do not act and opine to a tribunal as independent expert witnesses but instead, we advise our clients; as expert advisers.  We bring our extensive experience to the table - in effect, as part of the legal team and our input is cost effective.  We have seen in many instances, that a limited scope intervention by an experienced adviser focusing on identifying sufficient, relevant and reliable evidence is extremely valuable in making a claim more robust and, hence, compelling.          

Third-party funders routinely draw upon our knowledge and our teamwork in order to add strength to their funded claimants' quantum claims.  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 to discuss.

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 we acted 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!