TL4 x Serle Court x Asserson - From Robes to Riches: What International Lawyers Should Know About English Courts

Shimon Goldwater is next level when it comes to tactics and strategy. He leaves lawyers on the other side scratching their heads and thinking, ‘how did he do that?’ He is someone who is very talented at what he does.” (Legal 500, 2024)

Shimon Goldwater is an outstanding lawyer and a superb team leader. His cooperation with other solicitors and with counsel is excellent.” (Legal 500, 2025)

Shimon is a prize-winning litigator specialising in complex commercial disputes and group claims.

He was a finalist as Junior Lawyer of the Year 2018 in the Law Society’s Excellence Awards, and was named Rising Star of the Year at the Modern Law Awards 2019.

Shimon qualified as a solicitor in 2013 and holds Higher Rights of Audience.

Baruch Baigel is Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution at Asserson. 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.

As part of a broad Chancery-Commercial practice, Daniel Lightman KC often engages with challenging and novel issues of law and civil procedure, in particular concerning shareholder disputes (he has appeared in a number of landmark unfair prejudice petitions and derivative claims), company law (including in matrimonial proceedings), insolvency, civil fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and professional negligence.

Shortlisted for Company/Insolvency Silk of the Year in the Chambers and Partners UK Bar Awards 2024, he is a co-author of two leading practitioner text books, contributing two chapters (on derivative claims and unfair prejudice petitions) to Joffe et al., Minority Shareholders: Law, Practice & Procedure (OUP, 7th Ed, 2024) and chapters 12 (duties & liabilities of administrators), 13 (duties & liabilities of receivers) & 29 (court receivers appointed by the court) to Lightman & Moss, The Law of Receivers and Administrators of Companies (6th Ed, 2017). Other recent publications include: ‘Non-members and s 994 petitions: a novel approach’ (NLJ, 31 May 2024), ‘The rule in Clayton’s Case: its application in non-banking relationships’ (Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Financial Law, May 2024, pp 309 - 311), ‘The light at the end of the tunnel and the last throw of the die: liquidators’ claims against former directors following Sequana’ (International Insolvency & Restructuring Report 2023-24, pp 11-14), ‘Pleading Issues: Pick Your Battles’ (NLJ, 27 January 2023), ‘Unparalleled Circumstances’ (NLJ, 31 July 2020) and ‘Restricting Evidence and Cross-Examination’ (NLJ, 3 July 2020).