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Baker Botts (UK) LLP‘s ’strong and well-integrated’ London team regularly acts in high-stakes investor-state disputes involving the telecoms, energy, mining and construction sectors; and it is particularly active in relation to the Middle East and Latin America. Johannes Koepp specialises in commercial and investor-state arbitrations; Alejandro Escobar represents governments, businesses and public entities in disputes over projects, concessions, investment contracts and investment protection treaties; and Dorine Farah is ‘a superb advocate’. The practice further comprises recently-promoted international disputes expert David Turner; and Latin American disputes practitioner Ernesto Féliz De Jesús, who ’has extensive knowledge of international law’.
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‘A strong and well-integrated team. Provides legal services at the highest level.’
‘Delivers a broad and global vision of problems at all times, as well as strategies for their resolution.’
Key clients
- Republic of Iraq
- PJSC Mobile TeleSystems
Work highlights
Acting for the Republic of Iraq in a $1bn ICSID arbitration brought by German investor AHG Industry (in which the firm secured an early exit from the arbitration for Iraq by obtaining a summary dismissal on jurisdictional grounds).
Acting for MTS, one of Europe’s largest mobile telecoms network operators, in a major Swedish-seated ICSID (Additional Facility) arbitration against the State of Turkmenistan (under the Russia–Turkmenistan bilateral investment treaty).