Shane Jury FCIArb
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Complex Commercial Litigation
- Disputes & Investigations
- Financial Restructuring
- International Arbitration
- International Disputes
- Investment Funds Litigation
- Professional Liability
- Technology
- UK & International Finance Litigation
- White Collar Defense & Government Investigations
- Partner in the international disputes practice.
- Practice spans high-value, complex and cross-border commercial disputes, including arbitration and litigation, with extensive experience of claims involving shareholder and joint venture disputes, post M&A disputes, funds/banking, professional negligence, civil fraud and restructuring/insolvency disputes across a range of industries.
- Ranked as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Lexology for Arbitration and Professional Negligence, and included in Lexology’s Arbitration 2026 – Most Highly Regarded in EMEA.
- Also known for his work on complex investigations and global asset tracing and enforcement mandates.
- Regularly appears as an advocate before the DIFC Courts and sits as an arbitrator in both domestic and international arbitrations.
Shane is a partner in Akin’s international disputes practice, based in the Dubai office. Shane co-heads our disputes offering in the Middle East, together with Graham Lovett. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb).
Shane has been advising clients on complex commercial disputes and investigations in the Middle East for over 13 years. He has significant experience handling claims across both arbitration under all major institutional rules, and litigation in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) and regional Middle Eastern courts. Shane has particular expertise handling claims relating to shareholder and joint venture disputes, post mergers and acquisitions (M&A) disputes, funds/banking, professional negligence, civil fraud and restructuring/insolvency. He also has extensive experience in global asset tracing and recovery and enforcement mandates.
Shane has a broad arbitration practice, advising clients on arbitrations under all major institutional rules (including Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), ArbitrateAD, Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Rules). He has experience across a range of industries, including technology, telecommunications, financial services, funds and real estate. He regularly sits as an arbitrator, in both domestic and international arbitrations.
In recognition of Shane’s market leading knowledge in arbitration (as both counsel and arbitrator), he is included in the Lexology Index: Arbitration 2026 – Most Highly Regarded in EMEA, an index of the most highly regarded arbitration practitioners worldwide.
Shane also assists clients with global asset tracing and enforcement mandates and the monetisation of judgments and arbitral awards. He is regularly called upon to advise on global enforcement strategy, utilising a variety of information gathering tools (including Norwich Pharmacal orders, post-recognition discovery and § 1782 applications in the US Courts) and leveraging local and foreign court processes to achieve these aims.
Additionally, Shane supports clients in managing compliance and regulatory risks, including assisting with internal investigations and contentious regulatory investigations, in relation to anti-money laundering (AML) systems and controls, bribery and corruption. He has particular expertise advising clients on claims for breaches of regulatory laws, including mis-selling claims.
Shane is recognised as a Leading Individual in Chambers & Partners’ UAE Dispute Resolution guide. Clients describe him as “exceptional” and “one of the cleverest lawyers they have worked with”. Legal 500 also recognised him as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ for Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and International Litigation.
- Acted for a listed Middle Eastern entity on a US $1 billion joint venture dispute relating to the mismanagement of a telecommunications company in Iraq and misappropriation of shareholding, including DIFC Court injunction proceedings, ICC arbitration proceedings, Lebanese Arbitration and Mediation Center (LAMC) arbitration proceedings and DIFC Cout derivative claims and enforcement applications.
- Advised a regional entity on a c. US $4 billion fraudulent trading claim threatened in the ADGM Courts pursuant to the ADGM Insolvency Regulations, and an associated investigation.
- Acted for an investment entity on a sensitive, high value funds arbitration, including overseeing applications for urgent injunctive relief in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Cayman Islands Courts and acting on an expedited LCIA arbitration.
- Acted for a Syndicate of Banks in a US $300 million DIFC Court claim in respect of unpaid conventional, Islamic and hedging liabilities, including claims for permanent freezing orders and mandatory orders requiring the provision of security, and an application for an anti-suit injunction to restrain parallel proceedings in the onshore Dubai Courts.
- Acted for a Middle Eastern conglomerate in ICC arbitral proceedings relating to the unlawful misappropriation of land in the Middle East, including acting as strategic counsel to coordinate various related proceedings in the onshore courts and advising on potential Investor-State claims for denial of justice.
“He is very sharp, eloquent, insightful, strategic and absolutely motivated by client work and solving the problem by getting to the root of the issue.”
Chambers Global, 2025
EducationLL.B., University of Queensland, 2009
LL.B., University of Queensland, 2009
Bar AdmissionsLaw Society Queensland, Australia
Law Society Queensland, Australia
- Chambers Global, Dispute Resolution, 2023–2025.
- The Legal 500, Dispute Resolution Next Generation Partner, 2022–2025.
- Lexology, Most Highly Regarded in EMEA, Arbitration, 2026.
- Lexology, Global Elite Thought Leader, Arbitration, 2026.
- Lexology, Global Elite Thought Leader, Professional Negligence, 2026.
- Lexology, Future Leader, Arbitration 2024–2025.
- Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
- DIFC Courts’ Rules Committee (former member).
- DIFC Courts’ Users’ Committee (former member).
- Editor of the Commentary on the DIFC Law of Obligations published by LexisNexis in ‘Laws of the DIFC (Volume 1)’ (1st Edition).
