Robert Bradshaw

Partner, London

+44 20 3880 1540

rbradshaw@lalive.law

Robert Bradshaw

Recognised as a Future Leader in Lexology Index: Arbitration 2026, Robert specialises in international commercial and investment arbitration. He represents clients across diverse sectors including energy, mining, media and telecommunications, construction, IT, healthcare, food and hospitality. He has experience conducting arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, LMAA and UNCITRAL Rules, applying various procedural and substantive laws, in both French- and English-language proceedings.

Robert also advises on arbitration-related court proceedings, such as award challenges, enforcement and anti-suit injunctions. He is a solicitor-advocate with higher rights of audience before the English courts and a registered foreign lawyer before the Singapore International Commercial Court.

Recognition

“Command of every detail, without losing sight of the big picture.”
GAR 100, 2026

Ranked as “Future Leader”
Lexology Index: Arbitration 2026 

Ranked as “key lawyer”
Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration, 2025

Recent publications

Der englische “Letter before Action”
ADRIAN KÖNIG, ROBERT BRADSHAW
In: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess- und Zwangsvollstreckungsrecht, Issue 72, December 2025

Russia Update: EU Strikes Back Against Russian Countersanctions
ROBERT BRADSHAW, ADAM GRANT
In: Lexology online, LALIVE blog, 5 July 2024

Third-Party Funding in England & Wales: PACCAR to be reversed but in an uncertain direction
ROBERT BRADSHAW, ROBERT DENISON
In: Lexology online, LALIVE blog, 8 March 2024

 

Recent conferences

UK–Switzerland - Two Markets, One Economic Corridor: Finance, Trade, Commodities and Legal Services
ROBERT BRADSHAW, Speaker, Commodities across the UK–Swiss Corridor: Trade, Risk & Regulation
London, 2 June 2026

University of Oxford - IX Oxford Arbitration Day
ROBERT BRADSHAW, Moderator, International Arbitration, Trade War and Geopolitical Confrontation
Oxford, 21 November 2025

ITA - Annual Workshop
ROBERT BRADSHAW, Speaker, Lifting the Veil on Arbitrator Deliberations
Austin, 19 June 2024

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Current professional memberships

  • Member of Young ITA
  • Member of the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum
  • Member of Young ICCA
  • Member of the CIArb Young Members Group
  • Member of the LCIA Young International Arbitration Group

Career history

  • Partner, LALIVE, London, 2026 – present
  • Counsel, LALIVE, London, 2023 – 2025
  • Associate, LALIVE, London, 2019 – 2022
  • Associate, Hogan Lovells, Paris, 2016 – 2018
  • Trainee, Hogan Lovells, London, 2014 – 2016

Academic qualifications

  • Master of Laws, BPP University, London, 2018
  • Bachelor of Laws with German, University of Birmingham, 2013
  • Exchange year, Free University of Berlin, 2011 – 2012
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Practices

  • Arbitration - International Commercial
  • Arbitration - Investment Treaty

Sectors

  • Construction & Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Mining
  • Technology

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • German

Nationality

  • British
  • Irish

Admission

  • England & Wales, 2016
“Has an amazing grasp of detail and is always available” Legal 500, Dispute Resolution, 2023