Ashley Hammett is a New York qualified associate in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation and International Arbitration Groups.

Ms. Hammett has acted in a broad range of transnational disputes, with experience in investment treaty and commercial arbitration, litigation involving sovereign states and matters involving public international law and human rights. In the arbitration sphere, she has represented clients in cases conducted under the auspices of the ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA and ICC Rules. Ms Hammett has also represented clients in sensitive, high stakes investigations and litigation spanning several jurisdictions.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Hammett was an associate with the litigation and arbitration teams of global law firms in New York and London. She has also worked for the International Criminal Court in The Hague and in the Criminal Practice Division at Legal Aid in Australia.

In 2016, Ms. Hammett received her Juris Doctor (cum laude) and Master of Laws from Washington University in St. Louis, where she received a full scholarship from the McDonnell International Scholars Academy and served as a research assistant in international law. She also holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Arts (French) from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Experience includes:

• Representing the claimants in an intra-EU ICSID arbitration regarding a multi-billion-euro real estate project in southern Europe.
• Acting for the claimants in an ICSID arbitration against an eastern European state concerning road and railway concession agreements following billions of dollars of losses.
• Representing the claimant in an ICC arbitration for breach of contract relating to an ICSID award worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Acting for the defence in the domestic prosecution of corporate executives for alleged complicity in violations of international criminal law.
• Assisting a client with the enforcement of a Hague Evidence Convention Order pertaining to proceedings in the US.
• Acted for plaintiffs in proceedings before the D.C. District Court against the Syrian Arab Republic for violations of international law, securing a default judgment of more than USD 300 million.
• Represented an international bank in a series of investigations by a variety of US authorities.