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Mr Shai Wade
Work Department
International Arbitration
Position
Shai Wade is a Partner and Head of International Arbitration at RPC.
Shai serves as counsel and arbitrator in international arbitrations arising under rules of the major arbitral institutions, including the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, ICSID and others.
He is the co-author of the leading textbook on LCIA arbitration.
Shai has particularly strong expertise in cases arising from the upstream oil and gas and energy sectors as well as in joint-venture, shareholder and partnership disputes and cases involving IT, telecoms, construction, infrastructure, mining and international sale of goods disputes.
Shai has represented clients from every continent around the world in disputes concerning a variety of national laws. He is an expert in international investment law regularly advising clients on their rights under international treaties.
Career
Publications
Arbitration Bill Back on the Boil, New Law Journal, October 2024
Clifford and Wade, A Commentary on the LCIA Arbitration Rules, Second Edn., Sweet & Maxwell 2022
Wade, Clifford and Clanchy, A Commentary on the LCIA Arbitration Rules 2014, Sweet & Maxwell 2015
“Emergency Arbitrators and the State Courts: Will They Work Together?”, (2014) 80 Arbitration, Issue 1, 48
“Resolving Disputes Over Rights to Sub-Sea Resources”, Oil & Gas Journal Russia, March 2013, N3 (69), p.82
“The Revised ICC Arbitration Rules: Seeking Greater Efficiency and Transparency” Corporate Counsel’s Quarterly, 28, No. 1, p. 1, January 2012
“The Revised ICC Arbitration Rules”, The Lawyer’s Brief, November 31, 2011, Vol. 41, No. 22.
“Libya: Regime Change and State Contracts” Commodities Now, 29 August 2011
“Resource Nationalism: Managing the Risks” Commodities Now, 18 march 2011
“Guerrilla Tactics Before Investment Tribunals: From Counsel’s Point of View” Transnational Dispute Management, Volume 7, issue 2, November 2010
“All Change in International Arbitration Rules” and “Getting Value for Money from Arbitration”, ADR Forum, September 2010 (64)
“Market View: How will the ash affect trade?”, Trade Finance Magazine, 20 April 2010 (co-author)
“Characterization of Competition Law as Public Policy”, in Practical Aspects of Arbitrating EC Competition Law, Zuberbühler and Oetiker (Eds.), Zurich 2007
“ICSID: Recent Trends in Jurisprudence”, The International Comparative Legal Guide to International Arbitration 2005, p. 21 (co-author)
Memberships
- London Court of International Arbitration
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Lawyer Rankings
London > Dispute resolution > International arbitration
(Leading partners)RPC‘s ‘incredibly strong international arbitration department’ comprises experts in energy, insurance, international trade and banking disputes, as well as investment arbitrations and large-scale enforcement proceedings. Shai Wade is ‘a superb arbitration lawyer’, while Jonathan Wood is a veteran international arbitration expert. The next line of key practitioners features investor-state arbitration practice head Tatiana Minaeva, who is ‘destined for great things’, as well as Kirtan Prasad, Fred Kuchlin, Adam Forster and Anna Riquetti. Paul Baker left the firm in 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- International arbitration London > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Digital content & social
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Video games
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Corporate and commercial > Customs and excise
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Health and safety
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Employment > Employers
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Risk advisory > ESG
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap