Investor-State arbitration and public international law are specialised and dynamic areas of legal practice. When foreign direct investments go wrong, the issues involved are often political in nature and raise questions as to the rule of law, the level of protection available to foreign investments, the right of the state to regulate, and complex points of public international law.
We have acted in almost 20 investment treaty arbitrations across a number of sectors, particularly the energy sector, and have advised on investment treaty rights and public international law matters in numerous other circumstances. We have the knowledge and expertise to navigate clients through complex issues and to achieve successful results for our clients, whether in pre-arbitration negotiations or, if not, through the arbitral process, annulment/set-aside applications, and enforcement actions. Lawyers in our international arbitration team are members of BIICL’s International Treaty Forum.