Bizikova_Lucia

Lucia Bizikova

Bizikova_Lucia

Lucia Bizikova

Associate

London + 44 (0)20 7872 1096

Lucia Bizikova is an associate in the Litigation/Controversy Department and a member of the International Arbitration Practice Group. Her practice focuses on commercial and investment treaty arbitration. Ms. Bizikova has represented clients from different sectors including energy, mining, manufacturing, telecommunications, construction, and sports and entertainment, in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations under a variety of arbitral rules, including LCIA, ICC, SCC, ICSID and UNCITRAL.

Ms. Bizikova regularly publishes articles on international arbitration. She is a co-editor of the English and French editions of a textbook on private international law, The Global Private International Law: Adjudication without Frontiers. She is also a member of the Young and Young at Heart (YAYAH) subcommittee, which co-organizes the annual London International Disputes Week (LIDW).

Prior to joining WilmerHale, Ms. Bizikova worked as an associate in the arbitration team of a leading international firm in London. 

Experience

    • Represented a Cypriot investor in an ICSID arbitration against Armenia arising out of an investment in the mining sector.
    • Represented Austrian banks against an Eastern European State in ICSID arbitrations arising out of the retroactive conversion of loans from CHF into EUR.
    • Represented a cellulose manufacturing company in three parallel multibillion US $ arbitrations under the ICC Rules, arising from an M&A transaction in Brazil.

Credentials

  • Education

    • Legal Practice Certificate and MSc, Business and Management, University of Law, 2019

      High Distinction

    • LLM, specialisation in Public International Law, University of Cambridge, 2017

    • MA, Economic Law, specialisation in Global Governance Studies, Sciences Po Paris, 2016

      cum laude

      Linklaters’ Excellence Scholarship

    • Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School, 2014

    • BA, Undergraduate College, Europe-Latin American Campus, Sciences Po Paris, 2013

  • Admissions

    • Solicitor, England and Wales

  • Languages

    • English

    • Portuguese

    • French

    • Spanish

    • Czech

    • Slovak

Credentials

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