Jason Hambury
Partner, Co-head of International Arbitration
International Arbitration
Our team specialises in large, complex international arbitrations. As one of the leading law firms advising on all forms of commercial disputes, we pride ourselves on our sector knowledge as well as on our technical international arbitration expertise.
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Pinsent Masons has one of the leading international arbitration practices in the energy and infrastructure sectors. We enjoy a world-class reputation in successfully delivering high-value and technically complex cases.
Our team is co-led by Jason Hambury in London and Dean Lewis in Hong Kong. We represent clients on commercial and investment treaty arbitrations all over the world, involving different procedural and substantive laws, issues of public international law, enforcement and treaty rights.
With some 200 dedicated arbitration practitioners based in London, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Doha, Johannesburg, as well as Mainland China and Australia, our arbitration expertise has a truly global footprint.
Typically at any one time we are instructed on over 70 international arbitrations, a significant number of which will involve sums in excess of US$100m, and some of which will be very considerably higher.
Our current arbitration portfolio consists of cases comprising some US$10.5bn in dispute involving claims that are high profile and have legal and political significance. We have close links to the major arbitral institutions such as the ICC, LCIA, CIETAC, AAA, DIAC, SIAC, SCC, HKIAC and ICSID. We also have significant experience in conducting UNCITRAL and ad hoc arbitrations.
Our links with the international arbitration community are longstanding. We were on the drafting committee for the England & Wales Arbitration Act 1996 and the DIAC and SIAC Rules. We regularly participate in the pre-eminent research studies. In 2016 we supported the Queen Mary University of London study on dispute resolution in the technology sector. This research was subsequently nominated by Global Arbitration Review for the Best Development of 2016 Award. In 2019 we again partnered with the University on a study into Construction Arbitration.
Our arbitration practitioners are truly diverse and international, many of whom are qualified in more than one legal system and multilingual. They regularly act as advocates and some of them sit as arbitrators. This has allowed us to forge strong relationships with the leading international arbitrators and provide informed advice to our clients on the important issue of arbitrator selection and the composition of the panel.
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Our advisers act on domestic and international matters of all shapes and sizes, working with many of the leading names in the market. Browse our experience below, or use the filters to look-up recent work in particular geographies and industry sectors.
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Dr. Dean Lewis
Partner, Co-head of International Arbitration
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Matthew Croagh
Partner, Head of Melbourne/Head of Australia
Matt specialises in construction and engineering disputes arising out of major projects. His practice encompasses all forms of dispute resolution and he is often involved in assisting clients develop and implement commercial strategies to control time and cost during the construction phase of major projects.
Dr. Helena Chen
Partner, Joint Head of Office, China
Helena has vast experience in arbitration, infrastructure projects and cross-border investments. She is very experienced in acting as counsel in international arbitrations. She has also served as sole, chair or co-arbitrator in over one hundred arbitrations and has acted as an emergency arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings.
Frédéric Gillion
Partner
Frédéric heads the construction and arbitration team. He is qualified in English and French law and has extensive experience of the FIDIC forms of contract and their use in civil law jurisdictions.
Sibylle Schumacher
Rechtsanwältin, Partner
Sibylle heads the German Dispute Resolution Practice and advises in complex and cross-border litigation and arbitration proceedings.
Sam Boyling
Partner, Joint Head of Office, China
Sam is a Partner in the Construction and Engineering team and Joint Head of our China Practice.
Sofía Parra
Partner
Sofía Parra is a Partner of the Construction Advisory & Disputes (CAD) area of Pinsent Masons, currently based in Madrid. She is specialised in Energy and Infrastructure projects, with 16 years experience advising on all phases of a project: contract drafting and negotiation, project support during the execution stage and dispute resolution.
Pamela McDonald
Partner
From her base in Qatar, Pamela advises Middle Eastern clients in the infrastructure and energy sectors, and specialises in international arbitration.
Nicholas Brown
Partner
Nicholas is a multi jurisdictional lawyer with over twenty years of dedicated experience in advising and representing project participants in the resolution of disputes arising on infrastructure and energy projects across the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa and Australia, including as counsel in international commercial arbitrations.
Jean-François Le Gal
Partner
Jean-François specialises in international arbitration and multi-jurisdictional proceedings - frequently with a link to Africa and the Middle East.
Mohan Pillay
Partner, Head of Office, Singapore
Mohan is the head of Singapore joint law venture Pinsent Masons MPillay LLP, and managing partner of the Singapore constituent practice of MPillay. He is jointly qualified in Singapore, and England and Wales, with over 30 years experience in advisory, commercial litigation and regional arbitration work, particularly in construction and engineering projects.
Mark Raymont
Partner
Mark has a market leading reputation in advising on complex, large-scale technical, commercial and legal disputes for clients in the infrastructure, energy, oil & gas and process sectors.
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With over 430 partners and 3000 people around the world, we are well-placed to support you across a full range of legal and advisory services.
Jason Hambury
Partner, Co-head of International Arbitration
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