Loukas Mistelis

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Professor Loukas Mistelis is an International Arbitration Partner with Clyde & Co LLP, based in London, and the Clive Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. Loukas is an acknowledged authority on international dispute resolution and investment treaty law. In 2006 he was listed as one of the “leading lights in international arbitration” and since 2007 he is listed on the Who’s Who Commercial Arbitration and since 2017 as Global Elite Thought Leaders in International Arbitration. He has been listed in the Legal500 International Arbitration Powerlist since its inaugural year (2019). He is also listed as Tier 1 Arbitrator by Chambers and Partners. He has been also part of the team which won the 2022 GAR Award for best innovation, the Cross-Examination Moot and has also won the GAR Award for the best lecture in International Arbitration is 2014 and has been shortlisted several times since. 

He acts as a counsel and expect in complex arbitration cases and regularly sits as an arbitrator with most major arbitral institutions. 

His substantial arbitration experience covers ad hoc and ICC, ICSID, LCIA, DIAC, PCA, UNCITRAL, GCC, SCC, Swiss Chambers and Moscow cases and also Emergency Arbitrator proceedings under ICC Rules. Parties in these cases were from Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, BVI, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Kuwait, Libya, Lithuania, Malaysia, Morocco, Moldova, Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, UAE, UK, Ukraine, and the United States. Subject matters included foreign investment, sales contracts, transport contracts, aviation, distribution agreements, finance contracts, syndicated loans, privatization, construction and infra-structure projects, defence contracts, mining, administration of natural resources, real estate, mining, and oil and gas transactions.

Loukas is a member of the Board of Trustees of CRCICA, member of the SCCA Court and member of panels of most major arbitral institutions. He is also a widely published author.

Directories, peers and clients state:

Experience

• Arbitrator

  • Chair in ICC arbitration proceedings between a European country and a US aeronautical engineering company
  • Chair in ICC arbitration proceedings between Moroccan party and a Nigerian party arising out of a fintech contract
  • Sole arbitrator in two ICC arbitration proceedings between a consortium of construction companies and an Eastern European Highways Authority arising out of a FIDIC contract
  • Co-arbitrator in LCIA arbitration proceedings between a CIS company, a Czech company and two individuals arising out of a post-M&A
  • Co-arbitrator in SCC arbitration proceedings between two Eastern European parties arising out of a lease agreement
  • Co-arbitrator in LMAA arbitration proceedings between two shipping companies controlled by Greek and Italian parties
  • Co-arbitrator in PCA arbitration proceedings between a European construction company and a municipal water and sewage authority in East Africa.  

• Counsel

  • Counsel in ICC arbitration proceedings between a major US finance corporation and its main agent in Greece arising out of the termination of an agency agreement
  • Lead counsel in ICSID arbitration case Krederi v Ukraine
  • Counsel in a dispute between a Greek company and a Saudi company in relation to a joint venture agreement and a de-merger (mediation and arbitration)
  • Expert counsel advising a West African state in relation to a failed privatization process

• Expert

  • Expert in ICSID annulment proceedings – Vivendi v Argentina II
  • Expert in two investment proceedings (ICSID and PCA) – Carrizosa v Colombia
  • Expert in ICC consolidated arbitration proceedings arising out of contract for the construction of a major hydro-electric plant in Chile (scope of arbitration agreement and non-signatories)
  • Expert in ICC arbitration proceedings on the issue of quantification of damages under the UN International Sales Convention (CISG)

• Energy and Natural Resources

• Construction and Infrastructure

• Public International Law

• International Commercial Law

• Banking and Finance