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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Sector-focussed

We have a global reputation for delivering high-value and technically complex cases in the global energy and infrastructure sectors.

Connected

We maintain close links to the major arbitral institutions such as the ICC, LCIA, CIETAC, AAA, DIAC, SIAC, SCC, HKIAC and ICSID.

Global service

We have 200 dedicated arbitration practitioners based throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa.

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. Helena Chen

Partner, Joint Head of Office, China

+86 10 8519 0098 Email

Helena has vast experiences 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 80 arbitrations and has acted as an emergency arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings. Helena has been named to the International Who's Who of Leading Construction Lawyers for many years from 2011 and listed as a Recognized Practitioner in the category of Construction by the Chambers.

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Frédéric Gillion

Partner

+33 (0) 1 53 53 08 63 Email

Frédéric heads the construction and arbitration team of our Paris office. 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.

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Mark Raymont

Partner

+971 4373 9630 Email

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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Matthew Croagh

Partner, Head of Melbourne/Head of Australia

+61 3 9909 2558 Email

Matthew specialises in construction and engineering disputes arising out of major projects, with a particular focus on LNG.

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Mohan Pillay

Partner, Joint Head of Office, Singapore

+65 6305 0901 Email

Mohan is the joint head of Singapore joint law venture of 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.

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Nicholas Brown

Partner

+65 6305 0908 Email

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.

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Pamela McDonald

Senior Associate

+974 (0)442 69222 Email

Pamela specialises in the infrastructure and energy sectors. She advises contractors on major infrastructure projects in a range of sectors across the Middle East.

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Sam Boyling

Partner, Joint Head of Office, China

+86 10 8519 0099 Email

Sam is a Partner in the Construction and Engineering team based in our Beijing office, having joined Pinsent Masons in London in 2004. He advises Chinese contractors on large-scale energy and infrastructure projects in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

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Shane Voigt

Partner

+27 10 493 4615 Email

Shane leads the construction litigation and dispute resolution department in Johannesburg and is a specialist in construction and engineering law including alternative dispute resolution activities and litigation.

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Sibylle Schumacher

Rechtsanwältin, Partner

+49 89 203043 541 Email

Sibylle is Head of the German Dispute Resolution Group.

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Sofía Parra

Partner

+34 910 48 40 30 Email

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.

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