Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Dr. Anthony Sinclair specialises in international commercial arbitration, investment treaty arbitration, and public international law. His work spans a broad range of industry sectors, with particular focus on the oil and gas, energy and mining, telecommunications, infrastructure and utilities sectors, especially in emerging markets, as counsel and arbitrator. His experience includes handling disputes under ICC, LCIA, ICSID and UNCITRAL arbitration rules arising out of concession agreements, licences, production sharing and operating agreements, joint ventures, EPC and other construction agreements, host government and inter-governmental agreements, management and service agreements, distributorships, investment agreements, financing agreements and derivatives and post-M&A matters. He also has extensive experience as counsel for both private investors and States handling disputes under bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), and has also been counsel in several ICSID annulment proceedings. He has advised States on the negotiation and drafting of treaties, headquarters agreements and intergovernmental agreements.

Anthony is co-author and editor of both the second edition of The ICSID Convention: A Commentary (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and the third edition, Schreuer’s Commentary on the ICSID Convention (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and widely published in the field of international investment law and international arbitration.

He is the joint winner of the 2017 International Arbitration Club of New York annual Smit-Lowenfeld Prize for an outstanding article published in the field of international arbitration. He has a PhD in law from the University of Cambridge on international arbitration and public international law. In 2011, he was named one of Global Arbitration Review’s ‘45 under 45’ leading arbitration practitioners. In 2018, he was named a Thought Leader in Arbitration by Who’s Who Legal and was selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in the UK since 2018 for International Arbitration: London. Law360 named him a 2018 MVP for International Arbitration.

Anthony’s experience as arbitrator includes sitting on commercial and investor-state arbitral tribunals in ad hoc proceedings, under UNCITRAL Rules and under domestic legislation, and in institutional arbitration proceedings under the CRCICA, ICC and LCIA arbitral rules.