Nina’s experience and knowledge of arbitration as her specialised practice area spans over 35 years. She trained in the City of London in the early 1990s with a focus on international trade, investment and shipping. Nina has extensive experience of enforcement of awards in numerous jurisdictions, asset recovery and identification and production of evidence (cross border) to support international litigation and arbitrations. She was involved in the development of arbitration funding and has significant know-how of current funding mechanisms and ATE insurance products available to practitioners in the market. Nina’s experience spans also special purpose arbitral tribunals for mass claims.
She has experience of advocacy (as lead counsel and as part of a team) before international tribunals and has had conduct of dispute resolution under the arbitration rules of the many of the leading arbitral institutions/ad hoc associations including - LCIA, ICC, LMAA, Gafta, CIETAC, ICSID, AAA and SCC.
Nina was involved in some of the first BIT cases and is an expert on public international law. In practice Nina had significant experience relating to obtaining evidence to use before national courts in support of court supervision and provision of interim remedies. Nina has a particular interest in reducing the costs of the process of arbitration and multi-party arbitrations.