Baruch Baigel

Baruch Baigel is the head of Dispute Resolution at Asserson Law Offices. Baruch, a Cambridge and Harvard law school graduate, is a UK-qualified solicitor-advocate and International Arbitrator with extensive experience in England, Europe and the Middle East. 

Baruch has become the go-to name for complex, high-value cross-border claims and defences in the English Court, with particular expertise in Civil Fraud and Asset Recovery. 

Baruch has acted for several household name brands in business-defining cases including the Leviev, Fishman and Steinmetz Groups. 

Over the last decade, three of Baruch’s cases were listed among the Top 20 cases of the year by the Lawyer, including the UK Madoff litigation, the solar panel industry compensation claim under A1P1 of the HRA and a £200m negligence claim against a major UK firm of solicitors. 

Baruch also sits as Israel’s delegate on the ICC Commission on arbitration and ADR is a member of the ICC task force addressing fraud and corruption in arbitration and is on the panel of arbitrators at VIAC, SIAC and AIAC

Examples of recent work:

Arbitration:

• ICC arbitration worth $50m for a major Chinese construction company against an Israel based contractor
• LCIA arbitration worth in excess of $1 billion for a global mining group in relation to substantial mining rights in West Africa
• LCIA arbitration for a major hotel group against a European leisure company
• An LCIA arbitration for a global retail and real estate group against a Russian bank
• ICC arbitration for a high net worth investor in relation to a shareholders’ dispute relating to an Eastern European conglomerate of automation companies
• ICC arbitration for a pharmaceutical company against a financial institution
• ICC arbitration for a global real estate company against a major Austrian bank
• Ad hoc arbitration worth in excess of $100m for an Israeli investor in relation to a shareholder dispute and gold mining rights in West Africa

High Court:

• Acting for the principal defendant in a High Court litigation regarding the sale of mining licences in West Africa, valued at $1.5 billion.
• Acting for Defendants in a High Court litigation against the trustee in bankruptcy for Eliezer Fishman, arising out of Israel’s largest recorded bankruptcy matter. 
• Acting for and successfully defending the primary defendants in the UK Madoff litigation in a claim worth in excess of $90 million
• Acting for a group of solar energy companies in on-going proceedings against the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change in respect of a compensation claims worth in excess of £200 million under the Human Rights act
• Acting for and successfully defending defendants in a major civil recovery claim brought by the UK Government under the Proceeds of Crime Act with value at stake worth in excess of £100m
• Acting for claimants in a professional negligence claim against a major UK law firm, valued in excess of £65 million.