DLA Piper fields experts in large-scale international commercial arbitrations, while its specialisms cover energy, construction and shareholder disputes. James Carter is ‘a superb team leader’ and Jeremy Andrews is international corporate disputes head. Anna Mills and Edward Shaw act in construction and engineering disputes. The London group also includes international disputes lawyer Jeremy Sher, ’top-class arbitration practitioner’ Charles Allin, and China disputes expert Jue Jun Lu. Former Europe international arbitration head Philip Chong and Kate Cervantes-Knox and Christina Lawrence departed during 2023.
Testimonials
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‘The DLA arbitration team is great to work with. Pragmatic and responsive. Strength across multiple jurisdictions.’
‘A huge, well-staffed department with excellence across the range of lawyers.’
Key clients
- Mittal family
Work highlights
- Acted for Pramod Mittal (and others) in a high-stakes investor-state arbitration against Bosnia and Herzegovina, which involved the arrest of the younger brother of Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal and the expropriation of a controlling interest in an industrial plant.
- Acting for Nasib Hasanov, an Azerbaijani individual who owns the Neqsol group of companies, in an ICSID claim against Georgia over alleged state interference in a local telecoms company.