Stuart McInnes

Stuart is a litigator with over 40 years of experience, and is instructed in relation to complex, high-value cross-border disputes.

Stuarts particular specialisms include:

• Sports Arbitration – Disputes arising out of corporate and marketing agreements relating to sport, regulatory issues and contractual disputes between athletes and clubs.
• Commercial Arbitration – Disputes between states and commercial entities, stakeholder and shareholders in private companies.
• Commercial Litigation – Cross-border claims acting for high-net-worth individuals and companies and financial institutions.
• Disputes Relating to Offshore Trusts – Disputes (including injunctive relief) against trustees, directors and managers arising from breaches of trust deeds and management agreements, breach of fiduciary duties, team moves and theft of confidential information.

Stuart sat as an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne for 18 years, and sat on in excess of 200 effective cases as president of the panel. He is president of the Ordinary Division of the Qatar Sports Arbitral Tribunal in Doha and sits in the Saudi Sports Arbitration Centre in Riyadh, as well as other arbitral courts around the world.

Stuart was one of the 12 CAS Arbitrators, and the only UK representative, on the special ad hoc division of CAS for the London 2012 Olympic Games and has sat on other tribunals for major sporting events.

Prior to joining Squire Patton Boggs, Stuart was a managing partner of a London-based international law firm, where he was joint head of both the dispute resolution team and the sports and leisure sector team.