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Find the latest developments on investment arbitration, state immunity, boundaries and delimitation, international human rights and sanctions.

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Representing a confidential client in an arbitration against a South-East Asian State resulting from a disputed maritime boundary. The claim involved allegations that the State had warranted that the relevant waters, later disputed by a neighbouring State, were within its exclusive economic zone.  The maritime boundary dispute raised issues concerning the status of and sovereignty over certain islands and this impact of this on the maritime boundary

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CONFIDENTIAL CLIENTS

Advising confidential clients on issues of State secession and the implications of the creation of new states immediately before the referendum on Scottish Independence

CONFIDENTIAL CLIENTS

Advising in relation to the potential impact of Brexit on the UK's ability to fight Modern Slavery

A consortium of international oil companies

Advising on their rights under public international law, national and international investment law in respect of contracts granted by the Republic of the Sudan over oil and gas reserves located wholly or partially within South Sudan

Government of Malaysia

Representing in a successful US$1.2 billion arbitration against the Republic of Singapore concerning the interpretation of a bilateral treaty, conducted under the Permanent Court of Arbitration Optional Rules for Arbitrating Disputes Between Two States 

an Asian offshore contractor

Advising in a dispute arising out of US, UN and EU sanctions and the terms upon which it can withdraw from Iran

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