Tyler B. Robinson

Tyler Robinson is co-head of our European Disputes practice based in London. He is dual-qualified in the United States and England and handles a wide variety of high-stakes commercial disputes in the US and English courts and international commercial arbitrations seated in venues across Asia, Europe, and North and South America.

His clients include leading global private equity firms and their portfolio companies, hedge funds, and multinational companies in the investment, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, consumer retail, energy, telecommunications, defense and insurance industries. 

Tyler has extensive experience before arbitration tribunals throughout the world, including UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, AAA/ICDR, HKIAC, JAMS, SCC and ad-hoc international arbitrations. He has litigated cross-border disputes in the national courts of the United States, England, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Indonesia, New Zealand, India, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and the Cayman Islands and has extensive experience working closely with local counsel in foreign jurisdictions throughout the world.  

Tyler also regularly advises clients on contentious and regulatory matters that arise in connection with the firm’s corporate transactional practices, where a litigation-experienced perspective can offer new solutions or creative arguments to advance the client’s commercial and transactional goals. 

He is recognized in The Legal 500 as “a master at collating highly complex and technical elements cohesively” and was named a National Law Journal “ADR Champion” in 2017.

Prior to joining Simpson Thacher in 2000, Tyler served as Law Clerk to the Hon. Ferdinand Fernandez of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California and the Hon. Thomas Griesa of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. 

Tyler’s experience includes representing:

• A global aerospace business in a variety of contentious matters relating to its supply relationships in both the United States and United Kingdom    
• A leading oil and gas executive in litigation before the English commercial courts to recover compensation due to him in connection with an offshore drilling joint venture    
• A UK insurance company in connection with its global oversight and management of aviation coverage claims arising in connection with the conflict in Ukraine  
• A Mexican energy company in AAA arbitration seated in Houston, governed by Mexican law, relating to a storage terminal facility in Mexico
• Real estate investors in post-M&A international arbitration in Hong Kong, governed by Hong Kong law, concerning a commercial real estate investment in Mainland China
• Global asset management firms in both arbitration and litigation in Hong Kong relating to a former shareholder
• High net worth investor in related shareholder litigations in Cyprus and the Netherlands and ICC arbitration in Paris, arising out of investments in the Venezuelan oil sector   
• A global investment management firm in complex, cross-border Brazilian, Cayman and U.S. proceedings relating to a distressed investment in the Brazilian aviation sector    
• Leading global private equity firms in connection with a broad spectrum of contentious, cross-border issues adjacent to their M&A transactions and limited partner, key-person and senior executive relationships, both in arbitration and litigation 
• French food group Danone in securing a €105 million UNCITRAL arbitration award, plus an additional €29 million in interest and legal costs, under English law, in Singapore, arising out of a mass contamination and product recall spanning eight countries in Asia Pacific
• Japanese pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo in securing a final award of more than US$525 million on a fraud claim brought in ICC arbitration in Singapore, governed by Indian law, relating to a share purchase agreement
• U.S. investment fund MatlinPatterson in successfully opposing enforcement of a US$55 million Brazilian arbitral award in New York federal court under the New York Convention
• UK FTSE 100 Company and its subsidiaries in complex international product liability litigation in federal court in Houston, relating to oil rig equipment damaged during a hurricane
• Global defense manufacturer in LCIA international arbitration in London against breach of contract claims under a billion-dollar government requirements contract
• European pharmaceutical and cosmetics company in AAA/ICDR international arbitration against fraud and contract claims arising out of a global licensing agreement

Tyler received his B.A., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota and his J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was an Article Editor for the Michigan Law Review and recipient of the Helen DeRoy Memorial Award, Saul Nadler Memorial Award and Raymond Dykema Award for academic achievements.