Akima Paul Lambert
Partner Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Akima Paul Lambert focuses on high-stakes commercial litigation and arbitration. She often works with clients on large, multijurisdictional disputes. She has experience in commercial and investment treaty arbitration, and is dual-qualified in the UK and in the U.S.
Akima has significant experience acting for financial institutions, corporations and professional firms in litigation and arbitration proceedings arising out of commercial, banking and financial disputes.
According to Benchmark Litigation Europe (2020), Akima is “professional, brilliant and dedicated to the task,” and “a very responsive and diligent lawyer” who is “very capable of handling complex matters and always delivers what she promises.” She has also been listed as an EMpower Ethnic Minority Future Leader Role Model 2020 which recognises worldwide future senior leaders who are making a significant contribution to ethnic minority inclusion at work.
Akima is significantly involved in pro bono and has worked on and co-ordinated a range of pro bono matters in relation to international economic development and human rights.
Akima spearheaded the creation of the firm’s Caribbean Desk, which advises clients on transactions, projects and disputes throughout the region. The Caribbean Desk is comprised of lawyers from across our network, including our London, Washington D.C., New York and Miami offices.
Representative experience
Acting for a device manufacturer defending product liability claims.
Assisting with responses to product safety queries into a global company's processes.
Assisting with the defense of an international tobacco group in various jurisdictions including managing a large scale outsourced disclosure exercise.
Successfully securing €36 million judgment for a bank in connection with an Italian region’s dispute of specific derivative transactions.*
Advised a Middle Eastern financial institution on a range of matters, including successfully challenging the jurisdiction of the English courts.*
Advised The Center for Reproductive Rights in securing UN recommendations to overturn El Salvador’s criminalization of abortion.*
Represented BAT Industries in proceedings arising from the $1 billion clean-up of the Fox River in the U.S., including proceedings brought by BAT in the High Court.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
- LL.M., London School of Economics, 2018
- LPC, BPP Law School, 2006
- Maîtrise en Droit, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, 2005
- M.A. (Hons), University of Cambridge, 2005
- New York
- Solicitor, England and Wales