Outer Temple Chambers

Barrister. Call to the Bar 2023; Solicitor (England & Wales) 2018

Olivia Kaye is a barrister (and previously solicitor advocate) with extensive international arbitration experience in investor-state disputes and complex commercial arbitration.

Olivia’s experience spans across a number of sectors and regions in proceedings brought under the ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, SCC, DIFC, and NAI Rules. Olivia has a broad range of experience representing, advising, and assisting clients in, and prior to, disputes including in relation to funding investment claims.

Olivia has represented both States and claimant investors including the Russian Federation in the complex Crimean arbitrations brought by Ukrainian investors in Crimea under the Russia-Ukraine bilateral investment treaty. Olivia is currently representing several sanctioned Russian investors in a series of investment arbitrations against European States relating to their imposition of sanctions.

Prior to joining the Bar, Olivia trained as a solicitor with a large US law firm before moving to a Russian boutique firm in order to establish their first London office.

Arabic

• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

• Arbitral Women

• ArabArb

• Young ICCA

• IBA Young Lawyers

• YIAG

• Higher Rights of Audience (Criminal), BPP

• Higher Rights of Audience (Civil), BPP

• Lauterpacht Center for International Law, Cambridge University

• Accelerated Legal Practitioners Course, BPP

• Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP