Nicola Peart

Practice Areas

Nicola is an England and Wales qualified Barrister. She has a broad practice in international dispute settlement. She has appeared as counsel in various international commercial and investment treaty arbitrations, as well as before the International Court of Justice, on behalf of States and private parties. She also has an active pro bono practice and for over ten years has provided legal support to developing country negotiators and NGOs attending the international climate change treaty negotiations.

Professional Memberships

Nicola is the Legal Secretary to the International Tennis Federation Ethics Commission and has led numerous investigations into ethical complaints in sport. She is a member of the International Bar Association’s under-40 arbitration sub-committee, the ICCA Task Force on Gender Diversity in International Arbitral Appointments and Proceedings, the ICC Task Force on Arbitration of Climate Change Related Disputes, and the CPR Y-ADR’s Steering Committee. Prior to joining Three Crowns, she worked as Assistant Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

Work Highlights

- Acting for US financial investor, Elliott Associates, in an investment treaty dispute brought under UNCITRAL Rules arising out of a major State corruption scandal in Korea

- Defending an energy company in an ad hoc arbitration filed by an African State under a power purchase agreement

- Representing a glass manufacturing company in ICC proceedings concerning breach of a cross license agreement governed by New York law

- Acting for the Kingdom of Bahrain in an ICC arbitration relating to a project to design, build and operate a waste-to-energy plant

- Representing one of the world’s largest companies in a WIPO arbitration against a leading telecoms operator concerning the use and registration of intellectual property

- Acting for an American lifestyle company in an LCIA arbitration and parallel expert determinations relating to the buy-out of an Indian joint venture

- Acting as tribunal secretary in an ICC arbitration arising from alleged violations of a share purchase agreement by two businessmen convicted of fraud in the Czech Republic

- Representing the Republic of Vanuatu before the International Court of Justice in proceedings concerning the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965

- Appearing as counsel before the UK Supreme Court on behalf of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in the widely reported Halliburton Company v Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd case