Aidan specialises in international and domestic litigation and arbitration involving civil fraud and asset recovery, shareholder and director disputes, and contractual and commercial cases across the spectrum. He also has experience of POCA, Sanctions crypto and digital assets.A substantial part of Aidan's work is offshore, and he regularly appears in the Privy Council. He also has significant experience in sports law (particularly football). Much of his work, particularly his arbitration and asset-recovery work, is cross-border in nature. He has significant experience in disputes involving Russia/the CIS, UAE, Mauritius, Cyprus, Sweden, BVI, Malta, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Bermuda, The Bahamas, Kenya and Nigeria. He has been called (pro hac) to the Bars of Bermuda and The Bahamas and is qualified to appear in the DIFC and the ADGM.Aidan is rated by The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners as a leading silk in: Commercial Dispute Resolution, Civil Fraud, Offshore, and Chancery Commercial.

Aidan Casey QC is a highly-regarded silk who specialises in heavyweight litigation and arbitration in the fields of commercial law, civil fraud, offshore, and corporate disputes. He is rated by The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners as a leading silk in: Commercial Dispute Resolution, Offshore, and Civil Fraud.Most of his cases are international and he has particular recent experience of disputes involving Russia/the CIS, the UAE, Mauritius, Cyprus, Sweden, the BVI, Malta, Switzerland, Bermuda and the Bahamas. He has been called (pro hac) to the Bars of Bermuda and of the Bahamas.Recent examples of his practice include:• six international arbitrations between the shareholders in a large Russian retail bank. This case has recently been described in The Moscow Times as a “high-profile case which rocked Russia’s business community and spooked both foreign and Russian investors alike” and as “the most high-profile business dispute of recent years”• Acting for the Kingdom of Sweden in relation to a complex €120m pensions fraud, carried out in Sweden and Malta, and also involving the UAE and the DIFC• A further series of related LCIA arbitrations, and associated Cypriot litigation, concerning a hard-fought battle for control of one of Siberia’s largest open-cast coal mines.• Advising the largest shareholder in a Russian gold/commodities mining company (listed with a premium listing on the main market of the LSE) on derivative and related claims arising from a threatened sale of a stake in a Hong Kong listed iron ore miner• A number of arbitral anti-suit relief applications and actions• Acting for Aeroflot in the high-profile OJSC Aeroflot v Berezovsky litigation• Acting for the Government of the Bahamas in a dispute over oil exploration licences granted to the Bahamas Petroleum Company Plc• Acting for the Bermuda Police Commissioner in an important case concerning legal professional privilege and MLAT requests• Regularly acting for the Government of Mauritius