Dedicated to public international law and international disputes involving states, Fietta LLP‘s ’team handles pioneering investment arbitration cases’. Stephen Fietta KC acts for sovereign states in sensitive PIL matters, including high-profile territorial and maritime disputes. Laura Rees-Evans is ‘fully knowledgeable about public international law legal institutions’, and Oonagh Sands routinely acts before global dispute resolution fora. In April 2024, both Rees-Evans and Sands were made partners. Former partners Jiries Saadeh and Ashique Rahman left the firm in March 2024.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- ‘Only very good things can be said about this team.’
- ‘The team handles pioneering investment arbitration cases and generally tends to practise at the forefront of legal developments.’
Key clients
- Elliott Advisors (UK)
- Silver Point
Work highlights
- Representing the claimants, Menashe Levy and Tidhar-Excavation and Earth Moving, in a claim brought under the Ethiopia-Israel BIT, following the seizure of the claimants’ investments in the construction sector in Ethiopia.
- Representing three Mauritian companies in a claim brought under a bilateral investment agreement between the Republic of Mauritius and the Portuguese Republic.