International Arbitration

Members of 7KBW are regularly instructed as counsel and as arbitrators in international commercial, investor-state and sports arbitrations.

As counsel, members of 7KBW represent corporations, sovereign states, and individuals in arbitral proceedings seated in London as well as in established and emerging arbitral centres across the globe. 7KBW’s members have extensive experience across institutional and ad hoc arbitrations. They are familiar with the rules and procedures of the major arbitral institutions (including the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, CAS, AAA, SIAC, DIAC, HKIAC, ARIAS, LMAA and UNCITRAL).

Their work spans a broad range of sectors, including energy, extractive industries, banking and finance, technology, sport, international trade, pharmaceuticals, aviation, insurance, and shipping. Many of these arbitrations concern disputes arising out of high-profile political or economic crises, corporate collapses, or major environmental hazards, and frequently engage questions of foreign or international law.

Members also have expertise across the whole spectrum of arbitration-related court proceedings, including applications for freezing orders and anti-suit injunctions,  challenges to arbitral awards and enforcement proceedings. 7KBW’s members have appeared in some of the most significant arbitration cases before the English courts, including the landmark Supreme Court decision Enka Insaat Ve Sanayi AS v OOO Insurance Company Chubb [2020] UKSC 38.

Appointments as arbitrator

Members of 7KBW also sit as independent arbitrators in a wide variety of disputes and 7KBW has a dedicated ADR clerk to ensure confidentiality and separation of support whenever we have counsel on one or both sides and arbitrator(s) engaged in the same matter. Our senior members frequently chair tribunals and are highly regarded for their work in doing so. Members have worked with all of the leading arbitration institutions and also accept appointments on an ad hoc basis.

Members regularly sit as arbitrators in London, but are also active internationally and have, in recent times, accepted appointments to tribunals sitting in Bermuda, Paris, Geneva, Stockholm, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, among other jurisdictions.