What We Do

We provide bespoke, practical legal advice and representation to sovereign states throughout all stages of inter-state dispute settlement efforts and procedures. From confidence-building measures (CBMs), consultations and negotiations to formal dispute settlement proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and other special and ad-hoc arbitral tribunals, we guide our clients with clarity and expertise every step of the way.   

We strategically advise and represent investors in investor-state disputes arising under bilateral investment treaty (BIT) schemes.  We will thoroughly advise our investor clients on the pros and cons of each of the legal options at their disposal in order to help them maximize the protection of their benefits, rights, privileges under applicable BITs. 

We act as legal counsel to sovereign, observer-status organizations and other kinds of clients before the United Nations and its organs and bodies, as well as before Intergovernmental Organizations and their Conferences, Meetings and other occasions.

We represent sovereign states during United Nations General Assembly plenary sessions, as well as meetings and proceedings of its subsidiary organs, including its Panels, Working Groups, and Committees.  We also advise on all public international law questions and agenda items allocated to the United Nations General Assembly’s Sixth Committee (Legal).  For instance, we draft and prepare comments, observations, statements, memoranda, legal opinions, and other written submissions to the Sixth Committee, on behalf of our clients. and represent them at both informal consultations and events and formal meetings, as well as strategically advise them on other intervention options in matters relevant to their national interests.

We also represent and advise on questions examined by other United Nations organs, institutions and processes (such as the U.N. Security Council, the International Law Commission, other UNGA Committees, and so on), as well as questions debated or texts negotiated under the auspices of other, global and regional, intergovernmental organizations.

We provide strategic legal advisory services to sovereign clients for the effective implementation and their compliance with their international legal obligations.  Whether it be treaties or customary international law, our services are designed to advance our sovereign client’s national interests while helping them avoid or minimize their risk and exposure to international responsibility, in accordance with the principles and norms of public international law.  

We strategically advise and represent our sovereign clients throughout all stages of treaty conclusion, including during treaty negotiations, drafting, signature, expression of consent to be bound, entry into force and provisional application, as well as on treaty termination, including through denunciation.   Our public international law advisory services are also offered to non-state actors, including intergovernmental organizations of regional and global scope as well as to non-governmental organizations alike.

We deliver capacity building training programs on a variety of public international law topics, specially designed for sovereign states and their practice before the United Nations and within regional framework regimes.  We also provide specialized training for state officials of developing states, including Small Island Developing States.  

In addition to sovereign states, we represent and serve as legal advisors and advocates to non-state actors and entities, including civil society associations and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as to private sector industries who are global or regional leaders in international policy-shaping and standard-setting.  In addition to advising on treaties, we offer legal advice, advocacy and representation to our non-state actor clients during the development stages of soft-law instruments across key areas such as marine environmental protection and preservation from pollution from all sources, biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction, marine scientific research, energy and sustainability, and climate change. 

We also advise and represent victims of gross international human rights violations in international human rights cases.  For instance, we represent clients before regional human rights courts, such as the European Court of Human Rights, as well as before United Nations bodies, including the UN Human Rights Council

Our law firm also serves as a public international law specialist consultant to law firms around the globe, engaging as external advisors or counsel to assist with their own international law clients’ cases.  In this connection, we may  collaborate with such law firms and offer our expertise either on specific or all aspects and stages of their client’s public international law matter.  We also extend our public international law consultancy services to other professional categories.