Laura Rees-Evans
Laura is Counsel at Fietta LLP, a leading boutique law firm dedicated to public international law (PIL) and international arbitration. Her practice focuses on contentious and non-contentious aspects of PIL and international arbitration.
Laura has acted for both claimant investors and respondent States in complex and high-value international investment arbitrations under all of the major arbitral rules (ICSID, SCC, UNCITRAL). She has also acted as counsel in ad hoc inter-State proceedings under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Laura regularly advises on international law issues before domestic courts (including, in particular, State immunity issues, recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, and set-aside proceedings). She frequently delivers training courses to officials of State clients and other institutions on PIL matters.
In the six months leading up to the UK’s original scheduled departure date from the European Union, Laura spent six months at the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office, where she advised the British Government on PIL issues arising out of Brexit. Laura has continued to focus on, and has widely written and spoken on such issues, since her return to Fietta LLP.
Laura is a founding board member of the Young Public International Law Group, a network of public international law practitioners from law firms, the bar, international organisations, governments and academic institutions around the world. Prior to qualifying as an English solicitor, Laura worked as a legal and disarmament affairs advisor at the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York.