Ciaran Keller Email & Phone Number

Ciaran is the Chambers and Partners Commercial Dispute Resolution Junior of the Year for 2023, and is ranked in the latest editions of the Legal Directories in seven practice areas:• Commercial Dispute Resolution (Chambers UK 2024; Chambers Global 2023; Legal 500 2024)• Chancery Commercial (Chambers UK 2024; Chambers Global 2023)• Banking and Finance (Chambers UK 2024; Legal 500 2024)• Civil Fraud (Chambers UK 2024; Legal 500 2024; Who’s Who Legal: UK Bar 2023)• Energy (Legal 500 2024)• Offshore (Chambers UK 2024; Chambers Global 2023; Legal 500 2024)• Partnership (Chambers UK 2024; Legal 500 2024).He is commended by commentators as “absolutely phenomenal”, “a superstar”; “outstanding” and “sublime”. He is recognised as “one of the very best juniors at the commercial Bar”, a ““star junior who will be a star silk”, and as “destined for greatness”. He is described as “the complete package”, “a really formidable courtroom performer” and “an exceptional advocate who will get the result the client wants”. He has a “razor sharp intellect”, “cuts to the heart of the case” and is “a fantastic strategist” with “a great feel for how a Court will react to an argument”. He is also noted for being “super responsive” and “a charming, low-maintenance barrister” who is “practical” and “a pleasure to work with”.Ciaran’s practice encompasses the range of commercial and commercial chancery disputes, civil fraud, banking and financial services related litigation, company, partnership and insolvency matters, energy and minerals, fiduciaries and professional negligence. He is regularly instructed in complex, large-scale international disputes (including enforcing and challenging arbitral awards, international debt recovery and obtaining and resisting freezing orders) and cases involving choice of law and jurisdiction issues. He has also acted in a number of claims for and against states and state entities.Ciaran has a notable offshore practice, acting on disputes in Jersey, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, the Isle of Man and Hong Kong. He is a member of the Bar of the British Virgin Islands.Ciaran has acted in arbitrations under various institutional rules, including LCIA, SIAC, UNCITRAL, DIFC-LCIA, as well as ad hoc, and seated in various different jurisdictions worldwide.Ciaran was formerly a fast-stream diplomat in HM Diplomatic Service (serving at the United Nations and the British Embassy, Lisbon).He is a member of the Commercial Bar Association, the Chancery Bar Association; the LCIA; and the LexisNexis Expert Panel on Arbitration.

Listed skills include Commercial Dispute Resolution, Commercial Chancery Disputes, Arbitration And Related Court Applications, Offshore Litigation, and 8 others.