Shai Wade

Practice Areas

Shai Wade is a Partner and Head of International Arbitration at RPC.

Shai serves as counsel and arbitrator in international arbitrations arising under rules of the major arbitral institutions, including the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, ICSID and others.

He is the co-author of the leading textbook on LCIA arbitration.

Shai has particularly strong expertise in cases arising from the upstream oil and gas and energy sectors as well as in joint-venture, shareholder and partnership disputes and cases involving IT, telecoms, construction, infrastructure, mining and international sale of goods disputes.

Shai has represented clients from every continent around the world in disputes concerning a variety of national laws. He is an expert in international investment law regularly advising clients on their rights under international treaties.

Professional Memberships

London Court of International Arbitration

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Publications

Arbitration Bill Back on the Boil, New Law Journal, October 2024

Clifford and Wade, A Commentary on the LCIA Arbitration Rules, Second Edn., Sweet & Maxwell 2022

Wade, Clifford and Clanchy, A Commentary on the LCIA Arbitration Rules 2014, Sweet & Maxwell 2015

"Emergency Arbitrators and the State Courts: Will They Work Together?", (2014) 80 Arbitration, Issue 1, p.48

"Resolving Disputes Over Rights to Sub-Sea Resources", Oil & Gas Journal Russia, March 2013, N3 (69), p.82

"The Revised ICC Arbitration Rules: Seeking Greater Efficiency and Transparency" Corporate Counsel’s Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 1, p. 1, January 2012

"The Revised ICC Arbitration Rules", The Lawyer’s Brief, November 31, 2011, Vol. 41, No. 22.

"Libya: Regime Change and State Contracts" Commodities Now, 29 August 2011

"Resource Nationalism: Managing the Risks" Commodities Now, 18 march 2011

"Guerrilla Tactics Before Investment Tribunals: From Counsel's Point of View" Transnational Dispute Management, Volume 7, issue 2, November 2010

"All Change in International Arbitration Rules" and "Getting Value for Money from Arbitration", ADR Forum, September 2010 (64)

"Market View: How will the ash affect trade?", Trade Finance Magazine, 20 April 2010 (co-author)

"Characterization of Competition Law as Public Policy", in Practical Aspects of Arbitrating EC Competition Law, Zuberbühler and Oetiker (Eds.), Zurich 2007

"ICSID: Recent Trends in Jurisprudence", The International Comparative Legal Guide to International Arbitration 2005, p. 21 (co-author)

"Mass Claims Arbitration: The Experience of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland", Mealey’s International Arbitration Report, Vol. 14#11, p.1

"Westacre v Soleimany: What Policy? Which Public?", [1999]3 International Arbitration Law Review, p.97

"John Demjanjuk v The State of Israel - Casenote and Comment", Wig & Gavel, The London University Law Journal, Autumn/Winter 1993

Work Highlights

Representing clients in numerous on-shore and off-shore oil and gas cases

Serving as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and tribunal chair in international disputes arising from a wide range of sectors

Advising on investor treaty cases arising in the energy, natural resources, infrastructure and finance sectors