Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
Public International Law
Our public international law team, which is co-led from London, Paris, and Washington, D.C., has secured major successes in international trade, investment treaty, and commercial disputes before the WTO, the United Nations, the World Bank, and other international institutions. We also act on sanctions, human rights, and export control matters. We act on the most significant public international law matters and are consistently ranked by the market.
Public international law today plays a large and growing role in the decision-making of multinational companies with respect to their global investments. Furthermore, controversies between investors and states have increased in their complexity and importance.
Our capabilities at a glance
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Hear from our clients and industry leaders
The whole team is super smart. They are all really easy to work with and then know our business inside out. They come to us proactively with issues and are incredibly responsive.
Chambers & Partners, UK Guide, 2025
An intellectually brilliant and commercially astute public law team. One of the very best in the city.
Chambers & Partners UK 2025
Hogan Lovells has a high capability in solving complex issues that involve both legal and technical perspectives.
Chambers & Partners, Germany, 2025
The lawyers are just experts. They are there when you need them and happy to entertain all my questions. They understand the wider context and the politics and sensitivities of it.
Chambers & Partners, UK 2025
Representative experience
Successfully acting for the Slovak Republic, against Achmea in the CJEU, achieving a landmark judgement on investor-state arbitration clauses.
Successfully defended the government of Vietnam in three investment treaty disputes across multiple sectors, including health, food, and tourism.
We have advised both governments and private sector clients in several WTO disputes, including with respect to the GATT and the TRIPS.
Acted for Iberdrola S.A. in an investment treaty dispute and settlement negotiations with the government of Bolivia relating to the nationalization of the electricity sector.
Representing the Republic of Venezuela in an ICSID arbitration brought under bilateral investment treaty by companies in the fertilizer and coffee industries.
Representing Mongolia in an UNCITRAL arbitration brought by a Canadian mining company under the Energy Charter Treaty relating to uranium mining licenses.
Awards and recognitions
Band 1 for Dispute Resolution
Chambers Global
2021
Consistently ranked among the top most active global arbitration practices
Global Arbitration Review (GAR)
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