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International Advocacy

A wealth of advocacy experience

Through our in-house advocacy service, we provide clients with an obtainable and economic one-stop-shop, from commencement to conclusion of a matter.

Our international advocacy team represents clients in the full range of settings including arbitration, litigation, adjudication and mediation. With complex and often high-value disputes, we recognise that our role as lawyers is to add value to our clients’ businesses beyond the provision of specialist technical advice and actively engage them in our commercially minded and solution driven approach. 

We have a large number of skilled advocates globally, enabling us to represent clients in civil court hearings before all international courts.

Through our global network we are well positioned to provide comprehensive advocacy services, including advising on and all preparatory work before all courts and tribunals, if that is appropriate, either from the outset or stepping in in particularly complex or urgent cases. Our seamless service can result in substantially lower fees overall.

In many countries there is no distinction between advocates and lawyers generally. In some jurisdictions, however, advocacy has traditionally been outsourced to independent counsel. This means there are cases where it is entirely appropriate to utilise independent counsel for particular hearings and we will do so where it is necessary and where it is in the best interests of our clients. In these cases we can still manage costs by conducting appropriate parts of the advocacy ourselves.

Our International Advocacy team

Ben Knowles
Ben Knowles

Partner & Chair of the Global Arbitration Group

Susie Abdel-Nabi
Susie Abdel-Nabi

Partner

Ian Hopkinson
Ian Hopkinson

Legal Director

Sophie Grémaud
Sophie Grémaud

Counsel

Patrick Dillon-Malone
Patrick Dillon-Malone

Partner

Rob Lawson KC
Rob Lawson KC

Partner

Michael Conrad
Michael Conrad

Partner

Christopher Carlsen
Christopher Carlsen

Partner

Nadia Darwazeh
Nadia Darwazeh

Partner

George Karayannides, Q.Arb
George Karayannides, Q.Arb

Partner

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