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Giorgio Francesco
Mandelli

Partner
Trial and Global Disputes / International Arbitration and Litigation

London: +44 20 7551 7585
gmandelli@kslaw.com

Giorgio Mandelli is a partner in King & Spalding’s International Arbitration Practice Group, based in London.

Giorgio’s practice focuses on complex, high-value international dispute resolution. He specialises in commercial and investment arbitrations, with a particular focus on representing companies and investors in disputes in the energy and natural resources and financial services sectors. He has acted as counsel and advocate before ad hoc and institutional international arbitration tribunals, including under the ICSID, ICSID Additional Facility, SCC, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL Rules.

Most recently, Giorgio has worked on a number of high-profile commercial arbitrations and investment disputes involving Latin American, European and African States, arising variously under international investment agreements and treaties, foreign investment laws and contracts. Giorgio also provides counsel on public international law matters, including advising States on significant jurisdictional immunity issues in the context of judicial proceedings before European courts, and he has delivered practical training in public international law to lawyers from various ministries of States in the Middle East and Africa.

Giorgio is qualified as a solicitor-advocate in England and Wales and admitted to practice in New York. He was “recommended” by The Legal 500 2014 (Latin America) and described as a “rising star” in the GAR 100 (9th, 10th and 11th editions). He was included in Who’s Who Legal’s inaugural listing of the “Future Leaders of International Arbitration – Partners” (2017) and, again, in 2018. He also was mentioned as “highly rated” for public international law and international arbitration by The Legal 500 UK 2017 and as a “name to note” in public international law and international arbitration by The Legal 500 UK 2019.

Giorgio is a regular speaker at conferences on topics of public international law and international dispute resolution and writes frequently on international investment law and arbitration.

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Credentials

LL.M., New York University School of Law

B.A., The University of Oxford

A.B., Princeton University, cum laude

England and Wales

New York

English

French

Italian

Spanish

A “rising star”

GAR 100 (9TH, 10TH, 11TH EDITIONS), 2016, 2017 AND 2018

Future Leaders of International Arbitration – Partners

WHO’S WHO LEGAL, 2017 AND 2018

Recognition

A “rising star”

GAR 100 (9TH, 10TH, 11TH EDITIONS), 2016, 2017 AND 2018

Future Leaders of International Arbitration – Partners

WHO’S WHO LEGAL, 2017 AND 2018

News

Recognition

April 9, 2019
Global Arbitration Review Names King & Spalding Most Impressive Firm in International Arbitration

Press Release

April 2, 2019
King & Spalding Adds Nikhil Markanday and Giorgio Mandelli as Partners in London

In the News · Source: Global Arbitration Review, Legal Week, IJ Global, CDR, Legal Business and Project Finance International

April 1, 2019
K&S adds project development and financing specialist Nikhil Markanday and arbitration and public international law expert Giorgio Mandelli as partners in the firm’s London office

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Matters

Represented subsidiaries of a major U.S. glass manufacturer in two ICSID arbitrations, and subsequent annulment proceedings, against Venezuela

Represented a Liechtenstein blood plasma trading company and its Swiss owner in an ad hoc investment treaty arbitration against the Czech Republic

Represented a Luxembourg company in an SCC investment treaty arbitration against Poland stemming from its equity investment in a Polish bank

Matters

Represented subsidiaries of a major U.S. glass manufacturer in two ICSID arbitrations, and subsequent annulment proceedings, against Venezuela

Represented a Liechtenstein blood plasma trading company and its Swiss owner in an ad hoc investment treaty arbitration against the Czech Republic

Represented a Luxembourg company in an SCC investment treaty arbitration against Poland stemming from its equity investment in a Polish bank

Represented a major U.S. oil company in a multibillion-dollar ICSID arbitration against Venezuela

Represented a Canadian mining company in a multibillion-dollar ICSID Additional Facility arbitration against Venezuela

Represented a leading European polymer products producer in an ICSID arbitration against a Latin American State

Represented a European energy sector company in an LCIA arbitration against another European energy company involving a dispute under a sales contract and a related settlement agreement

Represented a major U.S. oil company in an ICC arbitration against a Latin American State-owned oil entity regarding a joint venture dispute governed by New York law

Represented a major U.S. oil company in consolidated ICC arbitrations against a Latin American State-owned oil entity arising under guarantees and in connection with production curtailments imposed on two extra-heavy oil projects

Advising a Europe-based, integrated, international oil and gas company on issues arising from a joint venture relationship in Pakistan

Represented a G8 State in a number of domestic judicial proceedings on issues of sovereign immunity arising from a number of employment relationships in receiving European States

Advised a G20 State on a wide range of public international law issues and taught PIL courses to lawyers from various ministries