Saskia Wolters

Full Profile

Saskia is an associate in the International Arbitration and Commercial Litigation team working in our London office. She has represented clients in complex domestic and multi-jurisdictional disputes across a range of different business and industry sectors, including energy, international trade and financial services. 

Saskia has practical experience of arbitration under major institutional rules, including the LCIA, ICC and trade bodies’ rules, as well as commercial litigation in the UK courts. 

Saskia has acted for clients based in the UK, Middle East, Europe and Asia, including governments, state-owned entities, large multinational corporations and private commercial entities. 

Saskia has an LL.M. (cum laude) in Public International Law from Leiden University in the Netherlands. She is a native English and Dutch speaker.

Experience

• Pursuing high value claims in the London Commercial Court against financial services institutions concerning interest rates derivatives products.
• Acting for a technology company in a Technology and Construction Court claim worth in excess of £30m.
• Acting for Middle Eastern trading company in an LCIA arbitration relating to losses from commodities hedging.
• Representing a Middle Eastern company before the FOSFA Board of Appeal in a grain trading dispute.
• Acting for a Kuwaiti distributor in an LCIA arbitration seated in London worth approximately US$70m against a major international pharmaceuticals company.
• Acting for a Middle Eastern State in a high value, Paris-seated ICC arbitration regarding claims arising under a Production Sharing Agreement in the oil and gas sector.