Sophie J. Lamb KC

Ms. Lamb's experience includes advising:

Commercial Arbitration

• One of Asia’s largest and most diversified conglomerates following the lapse of a US$2 billion M&A deal during the global pandemic
• A private equity house in a SIAC arbitration concerning a TMT investment in Southeast Asia
• A global technology investor in an ICC arbitration concerning a multi-billion dollar food delivery venture
• 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 US$200 million investment treaty claim against the Republic of Korea 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
• An international oil and gas company and Murphy Oil in their successful NAFTA arbitration against Canada under the ICSID, Additional Facility Rules over illegal performance requirements*
• Mobile TeleSystems in its US$2.5 billion investor-state arbitration against Uzbekistan brought under the Additional Facility of the ICSID, including successfully defending an Article 45(6) application*

Litigation

• Royal Dutch Shell and Shell Petroleum Development Company in landmark ESG class action work in the UK Supreme Court
• Energy majors in climate change litigation including in judicial review proceedings
• Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant, a subsidiary of Samruk Energy, as advocates to the appellant in the UK Supreme Court on a landmark arbitration appeal to determine whether the English Court has jurisdiction to grant an anti-suit injunction in circumstances where no arbitration is intended or in prospect*

Energy

• Corporate and commercial: Her 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, pre-emption rights / ROFRs, warranty/indemnity claims, non-compete clauses, technology licensing, and IP rights
• 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 including the NAFTA and the Energy Charter Treaty
• A national oil company in a range of complex lending, shareholder, and supply disputes valued in the multiple billions of dollars

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham