Recent Instructions

Representing Barbados before the International Court of Justice in the Climate Change case. Barbados appointed Robert Volterra as its Co-Representative in the case

Representing a Western European mining company in an investment treaty arbitration against a G7 State, before the Permanent Court of Arbitration

Representing Kenya before the International Court of Justice in the Somalia v Kenya maritime delimitation case

Representing the Republic of Croatia in an ICSID case brought under a bilateral investment treaty by Société Générale S.A. bank

Representing the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Armed Conflict case against the Republic of Uganda before the International Court of Justice|

Advising a major US multinational tech company on international trade, investment and State Responsibility issues

Advising a number of ministries of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on a variety of public international law issues, including in relation to a number of international organisations based in the Americas and Europe

Advising a major European oil company on its rights arising under a hydrocarbon concession in disputed waters off the Mediterranean Sea

Advising a State in Asia on maritime boundary dispute issues under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Representing Malaysia in relation to the so-called “Sulu arbitration” fraud.  In addition, Malaysia appointed Robert Volterra as its legal spokesperson

Representing a group of European investors against a US-based private equity fund in a dispute over an investment in South America

Representing a Middle Eastern government in international law negotiations with a G7 European State

Representing the civilian National Unity Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar on the public international law issues arising from the atrocities committed by the Myanmar military

Advising an international organisation on the public international law aspects of its programme to raise commercial debt

Representing a State in the Americas in a commercial arbitration at the London Court of International Arbitration

Advising a State on the TCA (the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

Advising a State in the Middle East on shipping transit rights under the Law of the Sea Convention

Advising an Asian mining company in relation to three investment treaty disputes resulting from the expropriation of mining concessions

Advising a diplomat posted in the Middle East on issues related to diplomatic immunities

Advising a lithium mining company on investment treaty issues

Advising a G7 government on WTO rules related to State-aid and Sovereign Wealth Funds

Advising a Sovereign Wealth Fund on investment treaty and attribution issues

Representing the United States of America in sovereign immunity cases before English courts and tribunals

Representing the Kingdom of Bahrain in a sovereign immunity case before the English courts

Advising a global engineering contractor in structuring its investment into Central Europe so as to benefit from the protections of bilateral investment treaties

Advising Barbados in reformulating its model bilateral investment treaty

Representing a major European energy company in its investment treaty disputes with a European State

Advising a global construction company in relation to dispute resolution options arising from a major transit infrastructure project

Advising a Caribbean State in its Outer Continental Shelf boundary delimitation negotiations with a neighbouring State

Representing a European oil company in a licensing agreement dispute with another oil company, in arbitration proceedings at the ICC

Advising a global company in defending against false Business and Human Rights attacks brought by an NGO