Anthony Grabiner is a commercial lawyer with a substantial court and advisory practice dealing with the major commercial issues of the day. Highly experienced both as an advocate and an arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations, he is a director of the London Court of International Arbitration. Lord Grabiner is one of the leading practitioners from business, the media and other organisations who assist with research, programmes and events at the Centre for Corporate Reputation.

1. Anthony Grabiner is a commercial lawyer with a substantial court and advisory practice
dealing with the major commercial issues of the day. Highly experienced both as an
advocate and an arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations, he is a director of
the London Court of International Arbitration. He is one of the leading practitioners from
business, the media and other organisations who assist with research, programmes
and events at the Centre for Corporate Reputation.
Educated at the LSE (LL.B 1st; LL.M Distinction) he has been a Barrister since 1968,
becoming QC in 1981. He is a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn and Deputy High Court Judge
and was appointed Life Peer in 1999. He takes the Labour whip in the Lords and has
been non-executive Chairman of Arcadia Group Ltd since 2002 and non-executive
director of Wentworth Golf since 2005. He is married with 4 children.
He has acted on many of the UK's most high profile corporate legal battles including:
For Robert Maxwell in the Leasco scandal; For Rupert Murdoch and Times Newspapers
against the print unions over the move to Wapping; For Al Fayed and Kleinworts against
Rowland over Harrods; For British & Commonwealth in the litigation against Quadrex
and Samuel Montagu; For Smith New Court against Scrimgeour Vickers in the fraud
over the sale to Smith of Ferranti shares; For Rothschild in Atlantic Computers; For
Jeffery Archer in relation to his dealings in Anglia TV shares; For Lloyds in much of the
Names litigation and for Equitas when the Lloyds market was restructured.
In addition Lord Grabiner has worked for clients in the banking, insurance, commodities
and oil & gas sectors, FSA regulatory issues and various takeover battles. More
recently he has acted For Tom Hunter in the section 459 battle arising out of the Gadget
Shop collapse, and For Apple Computers against the Beatles re the Apple Music
Store. He has just successfully represented the Candy Brothers against Qatari Diar in
their dispute over the redevelopment of the Chelsea Barracks site, and successfully
acted for Liverpool Football Club in relation to the board room dispute with, the now
previous owners, Hicks and Gillett.
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