Margrit is a Managing Associate in the International Arbitration Practice at Mishcon. Margrit has significant experience acting for clients in international commercial and investment arbitrations under most major arbitral rules (ICC, LCIA, DIFC-LCIA, ICSID, UNCITRAL, Swiss Rules) and in ad hoc proceedings. Margrit has also represented clients in State-to-State proceedings before international tribunals and in arbitration-related English court proceedings.
Margrit's practice spans a broad range of sectors, notably the energy, infrastructure and consumer sectors. She also regularly advises on issues of public international law, including in the ESG space.
Key Experience
- Acted for a government entity in a dispute with a contractor arising under a PFI contract.
- Acted for a multinational oil and gas company in an ICC arbitration arising under an LNG sale and purchase agreement.
- Acted for a client in State-to-State proceedings before an international tribunal in The Hague.
- Acted for a national oil company in a complex contractual dispute brought against it for tens of billions of US dollars concerning gas sales.
- Acted for a state in an arbitration brought under the OIC Treaty relating to an investment in the oil sector.
- Acted for an investor in ICC proceedings brought under the Cyprus-Poland Bilateral Investment Treaty.
- Advised a Latin American state on the implications of a draft of the UN Business and Human Rights Treaty.
- Acted for an investor in an ICSID claim brought under the Egypt-Netherlands Bilateral Investment Treaty.
- Acted for a client in parallel arbitration and litigation proceedings arising under a Cost-Sharing Agreement in the beverage alcohol industry.
- Acted for a client in an arbitration under the ICC Expedited Procedure Provisions.
- Acted in litigation and arbitration proceedings that arose out of the 1MDB scandal.
- Acted for two subsidiaries of a Hong Kong multinational company in parallel proceedings in the London High Court and DIFC-LCIA arbitration proceedings concerning a multi-million international sale of goods claim.
- Acted for two companies in a dispute arising under a Cooperation Agreement relating to various upstream and downstream oil projects in a north African state.
Career History
Managing Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Consultant, Simmons & Simmons LLP
Senior Associate, Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Associate, Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Trainee, Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Leiden University, LLM in Public International Law
London School of Economics, Summer School Course in International Litigation and Arbitration
The College of Law, Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course
Exeter University, MA in International Relations and BA in Politics and Spanish
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