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Dedicated public international law boutique firm Fietta LLP stands out for its specialised and market-leading offering, handling the full spectrum of public international law work for sovereign state clients as well as investors. Investment treaty disputes, inter-state mediation proceedings, and ICJ proceedings all form core pillars of work for the practice. The ‘outstanding and excellent’ Stephen Fietta KC, founding partner, acts for state clients on the full range of PIL work, handling investment arbitration cases, Law of the Sea disputes, international humanitarian law and the law of armed conflict. This is supplemented by expertise in territorial, sovereignty, and natural resources disputes before an array of international courts of tribunals, including the ICJ, ITLOS, ECtHR, and ICSID and UNCITRAL. Laura Rees-Evans advises on inter-state proceedings before the ICJ, PCA, and ECtHR, while the ’fantastic’ Oonagh Sands has an active caseload before the ICJ; Sands also handles a high volume of investment treaty cases. Fietta, Rees-Evans, and Sands jointly lead the team; the trio is ably assisted by Miglena Angelova.
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‘The Fietta team, led by Stephen Fietta, has excellent knowledge in international law, they have a very strong work and client commitment and deliver outcomes on a very high level.’
‘Stephen Fietta is an outstanding and excellent lawyer. I have worked with him for many years and on very different topics, and his strength is that he really understands the client's needs. He has a very strong legal but also political understanding, which makes him always a very relevant person at the table.’
Key clients
- The Republic of Azerbaijan
- The Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Work highlights
Represented the Republic of Azerbaijan in its two separate ICJ proceedings against the Republic of Armenia under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) related to allegations of ethnic cleansing and otherwise in connection with the historic conflict concerning Azerbaijani territory in Garabagh.