Job Description

Job Category: Lawyer
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International Arbitration Lawyer (NQ to 2 years PQE)
Location - London
Brief
We are looking to recruit an International Arbitration Lawyer between NQ to 2 years PQE to join the international arbitration team in our London office.
Background
Our global international arbitration team actively manages around 170 international arbitrations, with many involving sums in excess of $1 billion, and have acted in arbitrations involving parties in more than 80 countries, across 6 continents.
Consistently ranked number 1 globally for construction, energy and infrastructure ranked and among the top 40 arbitration practices worldwide by Global Arbitration Review with a first class team of over 200 lawyers, Pinsent Masons LLP is recognised both nationally and internationally as the leading adviser to the construction and engineering industries and for infrastructure and energy projects.
Our investor-state dispute settlement team stands out in the marketplace for dealing with legal issues that involve novel, complex and untested issues of investment law. Our strategic insight, innovative approach and ability to navigate the most politically sensitive and high-stakes disputes set us apart in this complex field. We have been shortlisted in the Legal Business Awards 2025 for International Arbitration Team of the Year for our groundbreaking work in investor-state arbitration.
The International Arbitration practice comprises lawyers in a number of disciplines across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa and Asia Pacific.
Key Clients

• We act for over half of the UK's top 50 contractors, a large number of the top contractors worldwide and an impressive range of private and public sector clients.
• Multiple publicly listed European companies.

Work highlights

• Represent an investor in a pending EUR2+ billion ICSID arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT).
• Represent a European publicly listed company and its subsidiary in a EUR500 million investment arbitration that challenges the termination of sunset clauses in intra-EU bilateral investment treaties (intra-EU BITs).
• Represent a pan-African financial institution in LCIA arbitration, securing full award against defaulting borrowers. Obtained freezing orders in England and multiple jurisdictions. Monitored parallel litigation across Africa to support enforcement and protect client interests.

The Candidate Required
The successful candidate will: * ideally have gained experience in investor-state arbitration (also known as investment treaty arbitration).

• worked on investor-state arbitrations brought under bilateral or multilateral investment treaties under one of the following arbitration rules: ICSID Arbitration Rules, ICSID Additional Facility Rules, UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, Stockholm Chambers of Commerce Rules and others.
• have international commercial arbitration experience, including arbitrations under the ICC or LCIA Arbitration Rules.
• be a team player, able to establish effective working relationships with colleagues in an agile environment.
• be technically strong and able to exercise good commercial judgment.
• have the interpersonal skills necessary to develop effective working relationships with clients, market contacts and the wider firm.

The successful candidate can expect to be involved in the team's client and market-facing activities. This will include client meetings, training sessions and networking and working routinely with colleagues across the wider arbitration team.
What will we offer you?

• The very best disputes work. Involvement in the most high-profile and ground-breaking disputes. We are a market leading, dynamic and growing global team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
• We invest in our team and have a first-class training and career development programme, monthly 1-2-1s, career discussions and biannual appraisals. Our training reflects our position as a market leader in communications and sourcing. Our training will assist you to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver "best of breed" services.
• Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.

About the Firm
Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.
The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.
We value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our people can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever their ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics. We have embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which our people can flourish.
We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham.
Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology.
Awards
We're being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT's most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters' leading legal brand in their UK index.
We have been recognised as by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBTQ+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a 'Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023' for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions, and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500.
Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations -
As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.
Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Johenn Choi who can discuss the role and requirements.
Contact details:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johenn-choi
Johenn.Choi@pinsentmasons.com
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