Sophie J. Lamb KC

Sophie’s experience includes advising:

Commercial Arbitration

• Successful defense of a leading global private equity house in a US$700 million SIAC arbitration concerning a TMT infrastructure investment in Southeast Asia
• Successful defense of one of Asia’s largest and most diversified conglomerates in an ICC arbitration concerning regulatory and antitrust clearance obligations in a US$2 billion M&A deal which lapsed during the global pandemic
• A global technology investor in an ICC arbitration concerning shareholder and put-option rights in a multi-billion dollar food delivery venture in Latin America 
• Pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and life sciences in a range of joint development and commercialization disputes
• A leading mining company on a very high-value shareholder rights and environmental dispute arising from projects in Latin America

Investment Treaty Arbitration

• Mason Capital in its successful investment treaty claim against the Republic of Korea under the KORUS following the exposure of corruption involving South Korean political and business leaders
• Investors in a Turkish gold mine whose multi-billion dollar interests were expropriated
• A sovereign party in an investor-state dispute concerning a bank rescue program
• Investors in an investment treaty arbitration related to the development of an eco-tourism resort in Mauritius

Litigation

• Royal Dutch Shell and Shell Petroleum Development Company in landmark ESG class action and parent company defense work in the UK Supreme Court
• Energy majors in climate change litigation, including in judicial review proceedings

Energy

• Sophie’s experience extends across the full range of significant corporate and commercial arrangements including long-term supply relationships, costs recovery schemes, tax stabilization clauses, gas pipeline and consortium issues, hardship/fairness clauses and price re-openers, M&A transactions including earn-out provisions, joint venture and shareholder agreements, JOAs, pre-emption rights / ROFRs, warranty/indemnity claims, non-compete clauses, technology licensing and IP rights, environmental disputes, and climate litigation
• Representing national oil companies and sovereign nations in cases of strategic significance
• Investment disputes: counselled investors and sovereigns in numerous investment disputes involving investment agreements, production sharing or concession agreements, double taxation treaties and domestic anti-avoidance laws, stabilization clauses, national investment laws and mining codes, bilateral investment treaties, and multilateral treaties