Oran Gelb is BCLP's Co-Global Practice Group Leader for Business and Commercial Disputes. He has acted on high profile litigation and investigations for some of the largest global institutions in a range of sectors, including financial services, technology, telecoms and utilities, retail and transport. He has represented clients in the High Court, Competition Appeal Tribunal, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. He has also represented firms and individuals in front of regulators and competition authorities in the UK, Europe, the US and Asia.  Oran’s repeat instructions from highly sophisticated clients is testament to the service he provides and his track record of achieving successful outcomes for clients.

Oran has detailed insight into how global organisations operate. He has spent time working in-house on client secondments at Morgan Stanley, Barclays and The Royal Bank of Scotland.

Examples of recent work include: acting for a major international technology company in a long-running contractual dispute with a global media company, acting for a major telecoms provider in legal proceedings with another major telecoms company, acting for a global financial institution on a £1bn fraud claim, acting for another global financial institution defending a competition claim in the spot FX market, acting for a prominent retailer pursuing a competition claim in the salmon market, acting for a global financial institution in overseas tax litigation and acting for a major water company in a claim relating to pollution reporting.  On the investigations side, Oran has acted on a broad range of  internal and regulatory investigations for financial institutions, directors and senior employees relating to matters including listed company reporting obligations, government bond trading, foreign exchange sales and trading, mismarking of positions and transaction reporting.

Oran is recognised in Chambers and Legal 500 as a Leading Individual for Banking Litigation and Commercial Litigation.  His descriptions in those directories include:

• “incredibly intelligent and incredibly diligent”,
• “fantastic to work with”,
• “brilliant, detailed, clever and good at strategy in complex multi-party claims”,
• “a wonderful lawyer”,
• “always seems to be thinking one step ahead”,
• “has great judgment, a deep knowledge of the law, and is all over the details”,
• “a deft strategist with a calm, solution-oriented approach”,
• “delivers a first rate service”; “inspires huge confidence in his clients”,
• and “combines excellent analytical and tactical judgement with a commercial, client-friendly approach'”.