Our Team

The JMiles Team consists of lawyers qualified in England & Wales and Kenya, a diverse team of people with a deep understanding of Africa and beyond.

John Miles

Managing Director

John has experience advising both governments and the private sector in relation to Energy and Natural Resources, Fraud and Dispute resolution generally. He has represented a number of governments including Brunei, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan and Uganda and State corporations from India and China in both arbitration and litigation.

He acts as a commercial arbitrator and as an expert under expert determination provisions. He has trained government officials from Somalia and Ethiopia in capacity building programmes and worked for the World Bank, making a diagnostic review of Lesothan legal systems.

He ran the Denton Hall offices in Beijing (1989 – 98) and Cairo (1998 – 2001) and was a director of the ASX listed gold mining company Artemis Resources between 2006 and 2010. He was Chairman of the ALN law group in Africa between 2006 and 2013. Between 2010 and 2020 he ran the J Miles office in Nairobi and in March 2020 he opened and now runs the J Miles London office.

In the context of arbitration, he has appeared, as a lawyer, before Tribunals of the ICC in London and Paris, Tribunals of LMAA, LCIA,  FOSFA and ad hoc in London and Tribunals in Stockholm, Dar es Salaam, Zurich and Geneva. He has appeared as a witness of fact before a Tribunal in Oslo and as an expert witness before a Tribunal in Rotterdam and a court in Rome.

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