Personal bio
Iuliia Samsonova is a dual-qualified lawyer (England & Wales and Russia) specialising in international commercial and investment arbitration. She has experience representing sovereign States, State-owned entities and private parties in complex cross-border disputes. Before joining private practice, she served for four years as Assistant Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, where she assisted arbitral tribunals in inter-State and investor-State cases. She previously practised in Amsterdam and Paris and has worked on a broad range of disputes involving public international law, infrastructure, natural resources and energy projects.