15 January 2019 - Article
Camilla Gambarini
Senior associate | London
Camilla is a senior associate in our litigation and arbitration team.
Dual qualified as an Avvocato (Italy) and as a Solicitor (England & Wales), Camilla specialises in international arbitration (commercial and investment treaty) and public international law matters.
Before moving to London, she practised in Milan, Houston and New York. She has represented individuals, companies, States and State-owned entities in international arbitrations across a range of sectors, including the apparel, aviation, energy, gambling, infrastructure, insurance, metal, media and railway industries in different regions of the world, including Europe, Africa, CIS countries and Latin America. She has experience of international commercial and investment arbitrations under the auspices of the CAM, CIAC, ICC, ICSID, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules.
Her public international law experience includes advising companies and individuals on the protection of investments under international investment treaties, and sovereign States on boundary disputes, natural resources and sovereign immunity.
Camilla regularly assists clients in pro bono cases, including on human rights violations before domestic constitutional courts and the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies, securing recommendations to overturn a country’s total criminalization of abortion.
She is a recommended lawyer in 2021 Legal 500 UK and is ranked as a Who’s Who Legal – Arbitration Future Leader (Non Partner).
She served as Co-Chair of Young ICCA (2018-2020) and is the UK Coordinator of the Italian Arbitration Association AIA-Arbit below 40. She is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration and is on the board of the American Review of International Arbitration at Columbia Law School, on the Lexis PSL Arbitration Consulting Editorial Board and is an Editor of Jus Mundi.
Focus areas
Track record
Admissions
Publications
Memberships
Talks
Representing Scholz in ICSID arbitration proceedings against the Kingdom of Morocco.
Representing Ukraine in UNCITRAL arbitration proceedings commenced by Olympic Entertainment SA.
Representing an Italian company in an investor-State arbitration against an African State.
Italy, 2013
England and Wales, 2019
Due Diligence in Investment Arbitration, Jus Mundi Wiki Notes, forthcoming 2020.
Third Party Funding: Can it be Regulated? Should it be Regulated? The Case for Regulation, Paper submitted for 13th Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Juris Conference, Washington DC, forthcoming 2020.
Trust Disputes and International Arbitration, Global Arbitration Review, January 2019.
Young ICCA (Co-Chair 2018-2020)
AIA-ARBIT40 UK Coordinator (2020-2022)
International Bar Association
Young IAG
ICC Young Arbitrators Forum
British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Sede del Arbitraje y Ley Aplicable (Istituto Peruano de Arbitraje, Centro Internacional de Arbitraje deMadrid, 2 October 2020 (webinar).
Hearing: the Ultimate Test for an Arbitration Associate, Delos-Y, 2 October 2020 (webinar).
Environmental Protection and Human Rights Law Under Armenian BITs Armenia (American University in Armenia, Center for Dispute Resolution, ADR Clinic, 26 August 2020 (webinar).
Education
Languages
- English
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
Dates
Joined
2017
