Sylvia Noury

Partner and Head of international arbitration group in London

Freshfields

Sylvia is head of Freshfields London International Arbitration Group and Global Africa Disputes team.

She has represented corporations and states in numerous commercial and investment treaty arbitrations and has acted for clients in disputes involving a variety of sectors and jurisdictions, with a focus on investor-State disputes in the mining, telecoms, energy and natural resources sectors in emerging markets, focusing on Africa, India and Latin America.

Sylvia is ranked by all the major legal directories, including The Legal 500, Chambers (where she is ranked for Africa disputes) and LATIN LAWYER 250. She was selected as one of the 45 leading figures of the international arbitration bar under the age of 45 (“GAR 45 under 45”), and featured in The Lawyer’s “Hot 100” lawyers in 2011.