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Paul LOWENSTEIN KC is an English barrister and a leading commercial silk in domestic and international litigation and arbitration. A highly experienced courtroom and arbitration advocate, he has expertise in high-profile, heavy commercial, financial and international disputes of all kinds. Paul appears regularly in the Commercial Court, Chancery Division, other specialised courts, and the appellate jurisdictions in England and the Eastern Caribbean; He is also admitted to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, British Virgin Islands (BVI) and to the Bar of the Cayman Islands (on an ad hoc basis) and is a Registered Foreign Lawyer before the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC). Paul is regularly instructed in complex and ground-breaking international and domestic fraud and asset-tracing cases, often involving urgent applications, including pre-emptive freezing and proprietary injunctions, receivership orders, anti-suit and anti-anti-suit injunctions, search orders, imaging and password orders, property preservation and disclosure orders. He has substantial experience of litigation involving digital assets, hacking and cyber-fraud; and obtained the first worldwide proprietary injunctions and freezing orders against ‘Persons Unknown’ in the English courts. Paul has appeared in several of the most prominent recent cases concerning jurisdiction challenges and choice of law issues. Paul has strong and overlapping practices in the fields of banking and finance, information technology and telecommunications. He regularly leads teams of barristers both within his core fields of practice and in diverse and specialist areas. Acknowledged as a formidable trial, interlocutory and appellate advocate and an accomplished cross-examiner, Paul is a team player and expert strategist with a highly commercial approach. Paul has been listed for many years as a leading silk in several categories of the principal directories, including commercial dispute resolution, civil fraud, banking and finance, crypto and blockchain assets, information technology and telecoms, offshore and counsel in international arbitration. Paul is regularly instructed in international and domestic arbitration and in English and BVI court proceedings in aid of arbitral proceedings and in connection with the enforcement of arbitration awards and foreign judgments. He also advises overseas lawyers on issues arising in domestic and international litigation and arbitration and gives expert evidence on issues of English law and procedure arising in foreign proceedings.