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Miglena Angelova

Miglena Angelova

Miglena Angelova is a dually-qualified English and French lawyer, and Senior Associate at Fietta LLP.  She is an English-qualified Solicitor and Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings), as well as a French-qualified lawyer admitted to the Paris Bar. Miglena has worked on a wide range of international disputes, including investment treaty and commercial arbitration cases under ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and SCC Rules, as well as on legal proceedings before French courts. Miglena has also worked on pro bono matters, including on a case before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Miglena holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science and a Master’s degree in International Economic Law from Sciences Po Paris. Prior to joining Fietta, Miglena spent time at the ECtHR, working on the project of accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights.
Clémence Assou

Clémence Assou

Clémence has worked on a wide range of international disputes, including inter-State arbitration proceedings and contentious proceedings before the ICJ, as well as investor-State and commercial arbitration cases under the UNCITRAL, PCA, ICSID, ICC, LCIA and MIAC rules. Clémence has also been involved in matters related to business and human rights. Prior to joining Fietta, Clémence was a legal counsel at the PCA, where she administered appointing authority requests as well as arbitrations involving States, State entities, intergovernmental organisations, and private parties. She also acted as Registrar of the Mauritius International Arbitration Centre. Clémence holds an LLM in International Law (Distinction) from University College London. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Law and a Master’s degree in International Law from Paris II Panthéon-Assas University as well as a Master’s degree in Arbitration and International Business Law from Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University.
Edward Cheston

Edward Cheston

Edward Cheston is an Australian-qualified lawyer, and an associate at Fietta LLP. He is admitted to practise in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia. Edward’s practice focuses on contentious and non-contentious matters of public international law and international arbitration. He has worked on a range of international disputes, including inter-State arbitration proceedings and contentious proceedings before the ICJ, as well as investor-State and commercial arbitration cases under the UNCITRAL and PCA rules. Prior to joining Fietta, Edward was an international legal advisor in the Australian Government, with a particular focus on nuclear law, international environmental law and the law of the sea. Before that, Edward worked as an assistant legal counsel at the PCA, where he helped to administer appointing authority requests as well as arbitrations involving States, State entities and private parties. Edward obtained his LLB from the Australian National University, graduating with First Class Honours and a Specialisation in International & Comparative Law.
Eileen Crowley

Eileen Crowley

Eileen Crowley is a dual-qualified English and US lawyer, and an Associate at Fietta LLP. She is an English-qualified Solicitor and an Attorney in New York State. Her practice focuses on international dispute resolution as well as advising on general public international law matters. Eileen has worked on a wide range of international disputes, including investment treaty and commercial arbitration cases under ICSID, ICC and LCIA rules as well as WTO trade disputes. Eileen has advised sovereign States, State-owned entities, and private entities on public international law matters including international treaty obligations, WTO law, business and human rights, international environmental law, international human rights and the negotiation of free trade agreements. Eileen has extensive experience working on matters involving WTO law and international trade treaties. Eileen has advised States involved in WTO dispute settlement and has worked on matters involving the interpretation of WTO treaties and free trade agreements for sovereign States and private clients. In 2019, Eileen spent nine months at the UK Department for International Trade where she was advising the British Government on international law issues arising out of Brexit. Eileen regularly works on pro bono matters. She successfully represented a minor in Disability Appeal Tribunal proceedings and completed a remote secondment to work on asylum claims at the Lesvos refugee camp in Greece. While at a previous firm, Eileen also advised pro bono on international human rights and humanitarian law issues. Eileen has written several articles on international arbitration including co-authoring an article on the “Evolution of the Third-Party Funder”, and a guide to ICSID arbitration on Practical Law. Prior to joining Fietta LLP, Eileen worked as an Associate at a major international law firm in their London and Geneva offices. Eileen has also worked for the Appellate Body at the WTO and the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations in Geneva. Eileen has a Bachelor of Business and Law from University College Dublin and an LL.M in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University Law Centre.
Stephen Fietta KC

Stephen Fietta KC

Stephen Fietta KC founded Fietta LLP in 2015. He has practised at the forefront of public international law, whether within government or private practice, for more than 20 years and is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading public international law practitioners. He regularly advises sovereign clients with respect to high-profile and sensitive public international law issues, including as regards sovereignty disputes, the law of the sea (including maritime boundary delimitation), international environmental law, water law, human rights, treaty interpretation and international investment law.  He has also appeared as counsel for international investor and sovereign clients in dozens of investor-State arbitration proceedings under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.   Stephen has advised on cases before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), European Court of Justice, European Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights and multiple domestic courts. He has appeared in more than 40 pending and decided arbitration cases under the World Bank (ICSID), UNCITRAL and other rules, a number of which have featured ground-breaking awards on jurisdiction, merits and/or damages.  He regularly acts as lead and coordinating counsel in substantial ICJ, investment arbitration and other complex international proceedings, and has worked with many of the world’s leading public international law arbitrators, barristers and academics. Before establishing Fietta in 2015, Stephen co-founded the world’s first specialist public international law firm (Volterra Fietta) in 2011. Prior to that, he was a partner specialising in public international law at a leading US and global law firm. Both of those practices were top-ranked at the time. Stephen regularly manages large teams of lawyers (including specialist or domestic co-counsel), experts and witnesses in multiple jurisdictions. Stephen is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at King’s College, London. In January 2015, Stephen was awarded the Smit- Lowenfield Prize by the International Arbitration Club of New York for the best article published globally in the field of international arbitration, entitled Public International Law, Investment Treaties and Commercial Arbitration: an emerging system of complementarity? Stephen has co-authored (with Dr Robin Cleverly) A Practioners guide to Maritime Delimitation, published in March 2016, which has subsequently been cited before both the ICJ and ITLOS. DIRECTORY RECOGNITION Chambers Global Directory ranks Stephen as one of the world’s top public international law practitioners.  Chambers Global Directory 2023 describes him as “hugely knowledgeable and tactically very astute”.  Chambers UK Directory 2022 ranks him as one of only two “star individuals” in the United Kingdom.  It comments that he “is regularly instructed on complex mandates” describes him as “a first-class international lawyer” with “a remarkably detailed as well as broad knowledge and insight into a wide variety of fields of law”.  A previous edition quoted sources as identifying Stephen as “a world-leading PIL practitioner and an unflappable advocate” who is “meticulous, thorough and thoughtful”. The Legal 500 has consistently ranked Stephen as a “leading individual” in public international law.  He is one of only four lawyers included in its “Hall of Fame” which “highlights individuals who have received consistent praise by their clients for continued excellence”. Legal 500 Directory 2021 identifies Stephen as “a master of his field”, who can “translate the complexity of issues in a simple and direct manner”.  Previous editions have commented that he is "calm, measured and unflappable”, a “simply fantastic practitioner” and that "his professionalism and work ethic are remarkable”. In June 2020, Best Lawyers named Stephen “Lawyer of the Year 2021” in its public international law practice category.  The award is given to a single lawyer in each practice category based upon extensive peer reviews. Who’s Who Legal again recognised Stephen as among the world’s leading arbitration experts in its 2020 edition, classifying him as both a “Global Leader” and a “Thought Leader”. The recognition follows independent research with clients and peers. Stephen was featured in the global Who's Who in Public International Law (published in 2007).  In March 2013, Stephen was named among the top 100 lawyers in London by the inaugural UK edition of Super Lawyers. The Global Arbitration Review 2011 named Stephen as one of the world's leading international arbitration practitioners under the age of 45 (the “45 under 45”).
Gershon Hasin

Gershon Hasin

Gershon has extensive experience in inter-State dispute resolution and investor-State arbitration, as well as the law of the sea and space law. He provides legal advice and represents sovereign States and private investors in various international legal matters. Gershon has represented clients before leading world dispute resolution fora, including the International Court of Justice. He has also counselled sovereign States on maritime boundary disputes, treaty interpretation, State practice, and the law of the sea. Gershon previously clerked for a prominent international arbitrator, Professor W. Michael Reisman, in multiple UNCITRAL and ICSID investor-State arbitrations and international commercial arbitrations. Prior to joining Fietta, Gershon taught seminars on international law at the Yale Law School as a Visiting Lecturer in Law. He is frequently invited to lecture on the regulation of outer space activities, with a particular focus on international investment and commercial arbitration. Gershon has published articles in leading law journals including the Yale Journal of International Law, Harvard International Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, International Law Studies, and the Georgetown Journal of International Law.
Laura Rees-Evans

Laura Rees-Evans

Laura is an English-qualified solicitor and Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings). Laura’s practice focuses on contentious and non-contentious aspects of public international law (PIL) and international arbitration. Laura advises on a wide range of PIL issues, including international investment law; State immunity and the immunity of international organisations; international human rights law; international humanitarian law; the law of the sea; statehood and sovereignty issues; treaty interpretation; and UN procedure. She represents State clients in inter-State proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). She has also advised clients in proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). She acts for claimant investors and respondent States in complex and high-value international investment arbitrations across a range of industry sectors, and has experience of all the major arbitral rules (ICSID, SCC, UNCITRAL). Laura also regularly advises on PIL issues before domestic courts (including, in particular, State immunity issues, recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, and set-aside proceedings), and recently advised a client defending set-aside proceedings in which a reference was made to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Laura has delivered numerous training courses to officials of State clients and lectures at academic and other institutions on topics of PIL and international arbitration. Recent highlights include providing training to Government officials of two Asian States on various topics within the law of the sea; delivering lectures to post-graduate students on the Diplomatic Studies Programme and as part of the Public International Law Discussion Group series at the University of Oxford; and teaching at King’s College London. Laura is frequently invited to speak at conferences and has authored and co-authored numerous articles on topics of PIL and international arbitration. Laura has recently been appointed as a Member of the Public International Law Advisory Panel of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)), and an inaugural Honorary International Law Practice Fellow of BIICL. She is a member of the ILA (British Branch) and a Member of the ILA Committee on Protection of People at Sea. She is a member of LexisNexis’s Q&A panel of experts for its Arbitration and Brexit practice areas. She is also a member of ArbitralWomen.
Oonagh Sands

Oonagh Sands

Oonagh Sands is a dually qualified English and US lawyer. She is an English-qualified Solicitor and Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings), as well as an Attorney in New York State and the District of Columbia. The Legal 500 has recognised Oonagh as a “Next Generation Partner” in public international law. She has deep experience representing sovereign States and their State-owned entities, as well as individuals and private entities, before leading world dispute resolution fora. Oonagh has represented clients before the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, as well as investor-State arbitral tribunals constituted under ICSID, ICSID Additional Facility, UNCITRAL, SCC and ICC Rules. Oonagh has also advised sovereign States, State-owned entities, and private entities on the law of sovereign immunity and the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards under English law. She has counselled States on territorial and maritime boundary disputes, the law of State responsibility, treaty interpretation, international environmental law, and the law of the sea. Oonagh has also delivered several training courses to officials of State clients on international law of the sea and public international law more broadly. In addition, Oonagh has represented clients in international commercial arbitration proceedings conducted under ICC, LCIA, SCC and UNCITRAL Rules, as well as multiple domestic proceedings before English and U.S. federal courts. Oonagh has taught aspects of international law of the sea on a Master’s programme at King’s College London and at the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea Summer Academy in Hamburg; she has also guest lectured on investment treaty arbitration at Pepperdine University. In addition, Oonagh sits on the faculty of the London Institute of Space Policy & Law. In May 2020, the American Society of International Law appointed Oonagh to serve on its Program Committee, alongside prominent US academics and international law practitioners. Oonagh has served on ASIL’s Steering Committee for its signature topic, “Beyond National Jurisdiction: Human Activities in the Oceans, Polar Regions, Cyberspace and Outer Space”, following her tenure as elected Co-Chair of the Society’s ‘Space Law Interest Group’. In 2016, Oonagh was recognised by the Irish Times for women’s influence in global public affairs and is a member of Arbitral Women. Prior to joining Fietta, Oonagh worked at major law firms in Washington DC and London. Oonagh has worked for the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs in New York, the European Commission in Brussels, and the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC.
Abdullah Tariq

Abdullah Tariq

Abdullah Tariq is a Pakistani-qualified lawyer and Associate at Fietta LLP. Abdullah has worked on a wide range of international disputes, including investment treaty and commercial arbitrations under the ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC and LCIA Rules.  Abdullah also has experience with post-award remedies under the ICSID Convention, including revision and annulment proceedings.  He advises on public international law matters, including the law of the sea and rights and obligations under international investment treaties, and has also acted in legal proceedings before Pakistani courts. Abdullah holds an LLM (Distinction) from King’s College London and an LLB (Hons) degree from the University of London, International Programmes. Prior to joining Fietta LLP, Abdullah worked at an American international law boutique and in the dispute resolution department of a major Pakistani firm.
Charlotte Westbrook

Charlotte Westbrook

Charlotte is a dual-qualified Australian and US lawyer (admitted in New York State), and a senior associate at Fietta LLP. Charlotte has worked on a wide range of international disputes, including investment treaty and commercial arbitrations.  She has represented international companies and foreign governments in connection with arbitrations under the major institutional and ad hoc arbitration rules, including UNCITRAL, ICC, and AAA/ICDR. Charlotte has also acted in a variety of legal proceedings before US courts, including in the enforcement of arbitral awards and foreign judgments against commercial and sovereign entities. Charlotte holds a Bachelor of Laws and Arts from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Laws in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law. Charlotte also serves as Assistant Editor for Investment Arbitration at the Kluwer Arbitration Blog.