Guy Pendell

Guy Pendell is an arbitration and commercial litigation partner in CMS Cameron McKenna's Dispute Resolution Group.  He is the head of CMS Cameron McKenna’s International Arbitration practice.

He is a solicitor advocate with a wide variety of experience of commercial disputes and their resolution through litigation, arbitration or alternative dispute resolution. He has a particular focus on international/cross-border disputes (in particular Central and Eastern Europe).

Guy is a member of, among others, the LCIA, ICC (Guy is the UK rapporteur for the standing ICC Task Force on the New York Convention), IBA and YIAG. He is the Chair of the CMS Dispute Resolution Practice Area Group and former Chair of the CMS International Arbitration Group.

Chambers 2011 (Dispute Resolution “‘effective advocate’ … ‘excellent at picking up the details’ in complex matters”), Legal 500 2011 (Dispute Resolution and Arbitration), Legal Experts 2011 (Banking Litigation).

Relevant experience includes acting as lead solicitor on:

• Trident European Fund & Ors v. Coats Ltd and Coats Holdings plc [2003] EWHC 2471 (Ch)
•  X Ltd v. Y Ltd [2005] EWHC 769 (TCC)
• ABB AG v. Hochtief Airport GmbH [2006] EWHC 388 (Comm)
• Bouverie No. 1 Limited v. De Vere Hotels & Leisure Ltd [2006]

He has acted for clients across a range of industry sectors on common problems including breach of contract, misrepresentation, negligence, warranty/indemnity claims, shareholder/investor disputes, defamation, internal investigations/disaster recovery.