Hannah Lewis is an English-qualified Associate in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s International Arbitration, Litigation and Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement Groups.
Ms. Lewis has broad experience of international arbitration and commercial litigation, with a particular focus on commercial arbitration and enforcement of arbitral awards. Recent experience includes:
- Acting for a major international engineering company in a multi-billion-dollar ICC arbitration arising out of a Middle Eastern airport project.
- Acting for an international mining company seeking to enforce an ICSID arbitral award rendered against an eastern European State in the English courts.
- Acting for a consortium of defendants in English High Court proceedings relating to the misuse of confidential information in setting up an international sports league.
- Acting for a major oil company in proceedings brought by a Middle Eastern state relating to the operatorship and maintenance of an offshore oil and gas project under the UNCITRAL rules.
- Acting in a shareholder dispute seated in London relating to an oil and gas joint venture in the Middle East under the LCIA rules.
- Acting for a manufacturing client in LMAA arbitration proceedings concerning an international shipping dispute.
Ms. Lewis also has an active pro bono practice with a particular interest in matters relating to prisoners’ rights and criminal justice reform. Recent experience includes:
- Working with APPEAL to investigate the conviction of a teenage girl, with significant history of trauma and abuse, for joint enterprise murder.
- Acting for an NGO seeking to bring investor-State arbitration claims for expropriation.
- Successfully acting for clients to obtain Non-Molestation Orders from the Family Courts under the initiative DARA (the Domestic Abuse Response Alliance).
Ms. Lewis trained at Gibson Dunn and holds a First Class History degree from the University of Bristol.
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- BPP Law School - 2019 Legal Practice Course
- BPP Law School - 2018 Graduate Diploma in Law
- University of Bristol - 2016 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- England & Wales - Solicitor