International Dispute Resolution

Tanfield Chambers has a dynamic group of experienced practitioners and leading academics specialising in International Dispute Resolution. Our aim is to provide a bespoke legal service and provide strategic business solutions to your legal problems at competitive rates.  To find out more about our group please download our brochure here.

We offer specialist advocacy and legal advice in

• International Commercial Arbitration
• Investment Arbitration
• Energy Charter Treaty Arbitration
• WTO Arbitration
• Construction & Engineering
• Energy & Natural Resources
• Oil & Gas
• Mining
• IT & IP
• Shipping
• Law of the Sea
• International Trade, Trade Finance, and Commodities

and have conducted international commercial and investment arbitrations in Europe, Russia, North America, Central America, South America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

We have advised on every aspect of domestic and international disputes - from drafting legal opinions and advising in conference to drafting pleadings and appearing as advocates at arbitrations. Members of the group have also appeared in high profile cases in the English, Scottish, Singapore, New York and Cayman Islands Courts.

At Tanfield we pride ourselves on offering a high quality dispute resolution service.  We work regularly as part of multi-national professional teams and we regularly accept instructions directly from in-house legal counsel and departments, as well as from clients located outside the United Kingdom.

Many members of the group are recognised experts in the field of international arbitration and hold numerous academic appointments, including:

• Professor Richard Nowinski, Head of our Group, Visiting Professor in International Energy Law in the Higher School of Economics, Moscow and Visiting Lecturer in Investment Law Arbitration at St Petersburg University, Law Faculty.
   
• Steven Walker, Honorary Fellow and Principal Lecturer on the LLM in International Arbitration at the University of Edinburgh, and member of the Global Academic Faculty of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee.
   
• Professor Surya Subedi, Professor of International Law at the University of Leeds and UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cambodia.
   
• Iain G Mitchell QC, Honorary Lecturer in IP and IT law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster.
   
• Adjunct Professor Tom Halket, Professor of International Arbitration at Fordham Law School, New York.

In addition, Tanfield has teamed up with international law firm Hogan Lovells and the University of Edinburgh to offer an arbitration internship programme for arbitration LLM students.