Khaled Moyeed

Khaled Advises

• Corporates (UK and international) and in-house counsel
• Oil and gas companies
• Sovereign state bodies
• Charities, not for profit and social enterprises
• SMEs
• Commercial property tenants and landlords
• Company directors, shareholders and investors
• Private individuals

Experience Highlights

International Arbitration

• Representing the Ministry of Oil & Minerals of a Middle East Government against a Canadian Oil Company in an ICC arbitration valued at US$1billion. The claim was for contractual breaches at the end of a 20-year Production Sharing Agreement.
• Acting for a Middle East Government in an investment treaty arbitration brought by a Chinese construction company involving alleged Treaty violations valued at US$200million.
• Acting for the Ministry of Oil & Minerals of a Middle East Government in an ICC arbitration valued at US$30 million against an Indian oil company. This was a contractual claim arising out of a Production Sharing Agreement.
• Acting for a Bangladeshi oil company against an Indian company in Grain and Feed Trade Association Arbitration (GAFTA) Proceedings). Advised the Bangladeshi company on English law matters arising under three separate contracts for the supply of cattle and poultry feed.
• Providing pre-arbitration advice to a UK based oil and gas company on disputes arising from various African offshore assets.
• Advising a Qatari state owned body on a US$1billion construction dispute against a Spanish contractor and helping the client in its pre-arbitration negotiations.

Litigation

• Successfully defending High Court litigation for a Company in an unfair prejudice petition and winding up petition on ‘just and equitable’ ground.
• Conducting High Court proceedings for a client in a complex charity law and trusts dispute.
• Representing the directors of a membership organisation in a High Court dispute.
• Successful High Court appeal for a client in a contractual dispute.
• Representing a Kuwaiti investment house in a contractual dispute against a UK based Software Company which included a bankruptcy petition.
• Advising a perfume company in a contractual dispute against a construction company.
• Obtained permission to appeal against a lower court judgment in the High Court.
• Conducting company law proceedings for a high net worth individual in a multi-million pound inheritance dispute.
• Representing a coffee shop owner against the Landlord in a relief from forfeiture application at the Central London County Court.
• Advising a commercial landlord on rent recovery under the Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022 and forfeiture of lease.
• Representing a client in court proceedings to secure a charging order and an order for sale of a property.
• Representing several commercial tenants threatened with eviction where Khaled secured significant statutory compensation for his clients under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.
• Secured an injunction on behalf of commercial tenants faced with an unlawful forfeiture of their lease.

Charity law

• Advising Human Aid as its legal counsel on all charity law issues especially a statutory inquiry with the Charity Commission..
• Acting for a membership organisation called Biswanath Probashi Education Trust on a contentious matter between its trustees and making a number of applications to the Charity Commission.
• Representing a mosque on reputation management with advice on defamation and a Charity Commission investigation.
• Advising a number of new charities and helping them to register as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation such as the Zay Initiative, an arts and heritage charity, Afghan Education and Welfare Trust and Al-Insaan Foundation, humanitarian charities.
• Advising a youth charity on issues raised by a trustee and carrying out an investigation into allegations made by the trustee.
• Representing the Muslim Patel Burial Trust on a contentious matter related to Covid-19.
• Advising the East London Mosque Trust on investments, reputation management, property dispute and other ongoing matters.
• Assisted charity clients in a successful mediation.

Career history

Admissions

• Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
• Called to the Bar of England and Wales

 Previous Law Firms

• Exons, Partner
• Clyde & Co, Solicitor
• Herbert Smith Freehills, Trainee and Solicitor

Memberships 

• Associate Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Member, LCIA Young International Arbitration Group, ICC Young Arbitrators’ Forum and Young International Council of Commercial Arbitration
• The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
• Founding Committee Member of Arab Legal Forum
• Muslim Lawyers Action Group

 Education

• Certified Islamic Arbitrator and Expert, International Islamic Centre for Reconciliation and Arbitration
• College of Law: Qualified Lawyers’ Transfer Test
• Inns of Court School of Law: Bar Vocational Course
• City University, London: Law, LLB (Hons)

Languages
Native in English and Bengali and proficient in Arabic

Publications

• The US$50 Billion Yukos Award Overturned: Enforcement Becomes a Game of Russian Roulette
• Spotlight on International Arbitration as a Means of Settling Disputes Arising from Climate Change
• A Guide to the IBA’s Revised Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest
• Key Changes in the LCIA’s New Arbitration Rules
• How Far do the New LCIA Guidelines for Parties’ Legal Representatives and the IBA Guidelines on Party Representation Go?
• To Forfeit or not to Forfeit? Enforceability of Forfeiture Clauses in Oil and Gas Joint Operating Agreements (JOA)