"One of the brightest people you could ever meet, phenomenally hard-working." "Highly commercial in his ability to identify the right pressure points, then pursue them relentlessly."
Richard Eschwege is a leading junior in heavyweight litigation and arbitration, and has been involved in some of the most high profile, high value and significant cases of recent years. He has a broad, predominantly commercial, practice, and has advised on and acted in a spectrum of disputes, including energy and natural resources, banking and financial services, civil fraud, insurance, professional negligence, telecommunications, conflicts of interest, conflicts of laws, and jurisdiction battles. He has appeared in the national courts at all levels and before many international arbitral tribunals.
Richard Eschwege is a leading junior in heavyweight litigation and arbitration, and has been involved in some of the most high profile, high value and significant cases of recent years. He has a broad, predominantly commercial, practice, and has advised on and acted in a spectrum of disputes, including energy and natural resources, banking and financial services, civil fraud, insurance, professional negligence, telecommunications, conflicts of interest, conflicts of laws, and jurisdiction battles. He has appeared in the national courts at all levels and before many international arbitral tribunals.
Richard is ranked in the legal directories as a leading junior in Commercial Dispute Resolution, Energy and Natural Resources, and Banking and Finance. He was identified as one of Legal Week’s ‘Stars at the Bar’ 2014, and nominated for Legal 500’s Energy Junior of the Year 2018.
Richard has a particularly strong practice in energy and natural resources, banking and finance, and commercial fraud matters.
He has acted in a large number of oil and gas, mining or infrastructure disputes in the North Sea, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, Central and South America, and Africa, and has appeared in some of the major energy and natural resources cases, including Excalibur Ventures.
Richard has worked on a variety of banking litigation matters, often involving complex financial products. He has acted for lenders, borrowers, and hedge funds in a wide range of financial disputes, including asset and security enforcement and restructuring of facility agreements, payments under bank guarantees, disputes involving bond issues and clearing systems, manipulation of LIBOR, swaps mis-selling cases, payments under letters of credit, and enforcement of security rights.
Richard also has extensive experience of commercial fraud matters, frequently in the context of multi-jurisdictional disputes. He currently acts for the principal defendants to claims in respect of an alleged fraud worth c. US$300 million.
Recent matters on which Richard Eschwege has been instructed include:
Education
Inns of Court School of Law
City University
Balliol College, Oxford
Qualifications
M.A. (Oxon)
Literae Humaniores (2006) - First Class (Congratulatory)
Honour Moderations (2004) - First Class
Bar Vocational Course (2008) - Outstanding
CPE (2007) - Distinction