Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

International Arbitration; Public International Law

Stephanie Collins is an Of Counsel and English law qualified solicitor advocate in Gibson Dunn’s London office. She is a member of the firm’s Geopolitical Strategy and International Law, International Arbitration, ESG: Risk, Litigation, and Reporting, and Judgment and Award Enforcement Practice Groups.  She has particular experience guiding clients in the energy, infrastructure, mining, financial services and tech sectors.

Stephanie specialises in public international law, and advises clients on a broad range of matters, including international human rights law and climate change law.  She has recently advised a State on the establishment of a new international organization.

Stephanie also regularly offers strategic guidance to clients on geopolitical risk management.  This includes advising on developing jurisprudence, regulation and policy which may impact clients’ operations.  She represents corporate actors in human rights-related disputes, including before the European Court of Human Rights and UN Treaty Bodies.

In the international arbitration space, Stephanie has extensive experience of acting in investor-State proceedings under the ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules, as well as experience of commercial arbitration disputes under the ICC, LCIA, Ciarb and SIAC Rules.  She has acted in over ten Energy Charter Treaty arbitrations and numerous BIT proceedings, where she has gained advocacy experience.  Stephanie is the co-founder and Chair of Young EFILA (European Federation of International Investment Law and Arbitration) and a member of the International Law Association, British Branch.  She has previously served as member of CPR’s Young Leaders in ADR Steering Committee (2021-2024), as well as the Global Steering Committee for the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations (2022-2024).

An experienced business and human rights lawyer, she has experience representing clients in civil litigation proceedings with a human rights and environmental nexus; advising clients on climate change and greenwashing risks as well as supply chain risks; and acting in proceedings brought under the OECD Guidelines before National Contact Points.  She also advises on a host of ESG-related regulations and delivers strategic advice such as designing human rights policies, due diligence processes and grievance mechanisms, as well as heat-mapping sustainability regulatory developments.  She has been an active member of the Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association—of which Gibson Dunn is a founding member—since its inception.