Firdaus accepts instructions across all areas of commercial litigation. His recent experience includes:

• Instructed by the Defendants in ongoing civil fraud proceedings concerning the management of a Russian metals company (led by Tim Lord KC)
• RAKIA v Azima, Dechert & Others – claim alleging state-sponsored hacking and the procurement of High Court and Court Appeal judgment by means of fraud by the Defendants (as a pupil, assisting Craig Morrison KC, acting for Dechert LLP)   
• Savannah SA v SAR – proceedings brought by a Swiss business against a Senegalese oil and gas company alleging repudiation of a contract for the sale of petrol and diesel (as a pupil, assisting Craig Morrison KC, acting for Société Africaine de Raffinage)
• IBM v LzLabs GmbH & Others – contractual claim alleging an unlawful scheme by the Defendants to reverse-engineer IBM’s mainframe software (as a pupil, assisting Craig Morrison KC, acting for IBM UK Ltd)
• Thurrock Council v Liam Kavanagh and Rockfire Capital – claim against a businessman and his company in respect of investment funds fraudulently misappropriated from a government council (as a pupil, assisting Craig Morrison KC, acting for Thurrock Borough Council)
• Visa v Luxottica Retail – proceedings brought in respect of an alleged breach of a settlement agreement by the Defendant (as a pupil, assisting Daniel Piccinin KC, acting for Visa Inc)
• ESS and Tiger v Capita – intellectual property dispute concerning the continuing validity of a licence granted over the SIMS educational software (as a pupil, assisting Craig Morrison KC, acting for ESS and Tiger UK Bidco Limited)
• Assensus v Wirsol – claim brought against a solar power developer for allegedly unpaid contractual bonuses (as a pupil, assisting Craig Morrison KC, acting for Wirsol Energy Limited)
• Advising a hospitality company on the scope of its liability to indemnify the former owners of certain public houses for operating losses (as a pupil, assisting Craig Morrison KC)

Firdaus accepts instructions across all areas of competition law. His recent experience includes:

• Ennis v Apple – collective competition law proceedings alleging that the Defendant’s App Store commissions amount to unfair pricing (as a pupil, assisting Daniel Piccinin KC, acting for Apple Inc)
• CICC II v Visa & Others – collective proceedings brought by merchants alleging that the interchange fees set by the Defendant card companies amount to anti-competitive agreements (as a pupil, assisting Daniel Piccinin KC, acting for Visa Inc)
• Secretary of State for Health & Others v Servier – claim alleging anti-competitive conduct (including patent settlement agreements) by the Defendant pharmaceutical group with respect to the Perindopril drug (as a pupil, assisting Daniel Piccinin KC, acting for the Servier Group)
• Asda & Others v Bremnes Seashore & Others – claim brought by UK-based supermarkets alleging a price fixing cartel in respect of Atlantic salmon organised by the Defendants (as a pupil, assisting Tim Johnston, acting for Cermaq Group AS)
• Secretary of State for Health & Others v Lundbeck & Others – follow-on damages proceedings brought against pharmaceutical companies in respect of certain anti-competitive agreements (as a pupil, assisting Tim Johnston, acting for Lundbeck Limited)
• Assisting in acting for a global sports regulatory body in arbitration proceedings brought by a prospective participant in one of its competitions (as a pupil, assisting Tim Johnston)

Firdaus accepts instructions across all areas of public law. His recent experience includes:

• Instructed by an NGO to advise on the prospects of judicial review against the Civil Aviation Authority in respect of its approval of certain aerospace proposals
• R (on application of RR Manufacturing) v BSI – Court of Appeal decision on whether to grant the Applicant an interim injunction preventing the British Standards Institution from suspending its certificate to market its defibrillator device (as a pupil, assisting Tim Johnston, acting for BSI)
• Assisting in acting for various government bodies in judicial review challenges brought against them, including the Service Complains Ombudsman for the Armed Forces and the Parole Board (as a pupil, assisting Tim Johnston)
• Advising a major investment bank on the relationship between its contractual repayment obligations and the UK’s sanctions against Russia (as a pupil, assisting Craig Morrison KC)
• Trustees of the Panayi Accumulation and Maintenance Trusts Nos 1-4 v HMRC – proceedings in the Upper Tribunal (Tax) concerning the implications of EU law fundamental freedoms for the UK’s statutory exit charge regime (as a pupil, assisting Tim Johnston, acting for the Panayi Trustees)
• Advising a government body on the compatibility of proposed financing arrangements with the UK and EU’s subsidy control regimes (as a pupil, assisting Tim Johnston)

Education

2018-2021: BA Jurisprudence (First-Class), St. John’s College, University of Oxford

2021-2022: BCL (Distinction), St. John’s College, University of Oxford

2022-2023: Bar Course, Inns of Court College of Advocacy

Academic Scholarships and Prizes

Wronker Proxime Prize for Second Best Performance in Academic Cohort (Oxford University)

Gibbs Prize for Best Performance in Private Law Modules (Oxford University)

Slaughter and May Prize for Best Performance in Contract Law (Oxford University)

Casberd Scholarship for Performance in Law Moderations (St. John’s College)

Daniel Slifkin Scholarship to read for the BCL (St. John’s College)

Lord Mansfield Scholarship for Bar Course Studies (Lincoln’s Inn) 

Bronze Medal for Performance in Civil Litigation Exam (Inns of Court College of Advocacy)