Virginie Colaiuta

Practice areas

Litigation and Arbitration

Professional experience

Virginie Colaiuta is a Partner of the London office of LMS Legal LLP.
She acts as counsel, advocate and arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings deriving from construction and energy related disputes, also based on investment treaties.
She is a Visiting Fellow of King’s College, London, where she regularly lectures on “Investment Treaty Protections” and “Conflicts of Laws” relating to construction projects.
Virginie is admitted to practise as Solicitor in England & Wales, as Avocat à la Cour in Paris (France) and as Attorney at Law in New York (NY, USA).
She has also an Italian law degree from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
Virginie is the Vice Co-Chair of the International Construction Projects Committee of the International Bar Association.

Education

Doctorat en Droit (LL.D.)
Law School of the University Panthèon-Assas-Paris II, France
(currently enrolled)
Master of Laws (LL.M.)
University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., 1997
Laurea in Giurisprudenza (equivalent to a J.D. degree)
Law School of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, 1994

Languages

Italian
English
French