Aris Adamantopoulos is an associate in the Litigation & Trial Department of the London office of Latham & Watkins. He is also a member of the International Arbitration and Complex Commercial Litigation Practices. 

Prior to qualification, Aris trained in the firm’s London office, gaining experience in litigation and trial, leveraged finance, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust, and private equity matters. 

Aris has represented clients in investor-State, international commercial arbitration, complex commercial litigation cases before arbitral tribunals and the English courts. Aris also regularly does pro bono work, including projects for the Royal Courts of Justice Advice Bureau and for the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

Aris’ representative experience includes advising:

  • A private equity house in a SIAC arbitration concerning a TMT investment in Southeast Asia
  • Mason Capital in its treaty claim against the Republic of Korea following the exposure of corruption involving South Korean political and business leaders
  • The State of Ukraine in a pending ICSID arbitration brought under the Dutch – Ukraine BIT related to an alleged investment in the aviation sector (Gilward Investments BV v. Ukraine)
  • Unicredit Bank AG in successfully obtaining an anti-suit injunction from the English Supreme Court to restrain Russian litigation proceedings in a dispute related to EU sanctions subject to an ICC Paris arbitration clause 

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)

Education

  • LPC, BPP University, 2022
  • LLM, University College London, 2021
  • LLB, University of Warwick, 2020

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • French
  • Greek

Practices