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Andrea Stauber is a partner in King & Spalding’s International Disputes practice group, based in London. Andrea focuses on resolving complex international commercial disputes, particularly relating to high-value engineering and construction projects in the energy, infrastructure and mining sectors in jurisdictions around the world.
She advises both owners and contractors on a variety of major projects, including power plants, oil and gas processing facilities and pipelines, waste-to-energy plants, airports, roads and elevated highways, chemical plants, as well as wind and solar renewable energy projects.
Andrea is a Solicitor Advocate and represents clients in arbitral proceedings under all major institutional rules including ICC, LCIA, SIAC, AAA, UNCITRAL and ICSID. She is also experienced in litigation, adjudication, mediation and expert determination.
In addition to her disputes practice, Andrea provides strategic risk management and pragmatic dispute avoidance advice throughout the execution phase of projects, with a view to achieving commercial solutions in line with her clients’ business needs. Where a dispute is unavoidable, Andrea works seamlessly with her clients’ project and legal teams to put them in the best possible position for any subsequent proceeding.
Andrea had the opportunity to complete a secondment with a multi-national joint venture comprising two leading engineering and construction companies, during which she provided ongoing practical and strategic advice to project teams and management about contract administration, dispute avoidance and dispute resolution in relation to the construction of a combined-cycle power plant within a LNG facility.
Andrea is ranked as an 'Up and Coming' Partner by Chambers UK in Construction: International Arbitration 2025. She is recommended by Legal 500 as a Key Lawyer for International Arbitration and Construction - Contentious, and was recognised as a Rising Star on their International Arbitration Powerlist in 2019. She is noted as a "Future Leader" in Arbitration by Who's Who Legal. Her clients describe her as "remarkable" and "a pleasure to work with", and note that she "quickly understands and orchestrates her client's case to perfection".
Andrea is an elected member of Council for the Society of Construction Law UK and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). She is also on the faculty of the Brunel University International Arbitration Summer School and the Delos Remote Oral Advocacy Program, where she teaches oral and written advocacy.
England and Wales
High Court of Australia
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Law Institute of Victoria
Law Society of England and Wales
Society of Construction Law (Council Member; Secretary)
WPC Energy (UK Committee)
English
German
October 17, 2024
King & Spalding Recognized With Multiple Rankings in Chambers UK 2025 Guide
October 2, 2024
Legal 500 UK 2025 Recognizes King & Spalding Among Leading UK Law Firms
Representing a US-based manufacturing company in a dispute concerning commissions due on the sale of products and related services in Oman.
Representing a major oil and gas company in an ICC arbitration relating to disputed delay, disruption and variation claims arising from the construction of a gas processing plant and pipeline in Northern Africa. The arbitration is seated in Vienna and governed by English law.
Advising a major oil and gas service provider with respect to claims involving termination of a contract on grounds of force majeure arising from COVID-19 on a project in the Middle East.
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July 18, 2024
Power Generation, Transmission & Distribution 2024: UK
May 11, 2023
The Critical Path - May 2023
December 6, 2022
COVID as a Force Majeure Event - An Interesting and Unexpected Development in Singapore
October 17, 2024
King & Spalding Recognized With Multiple Rankings in Chambers UK 2025 Guide
October 2, 2024
Legal 500 UK 2025 Recognizes King & Spalding Among Leading UK Law Firms
Representing a US-based manufacturing company in a dispute concerning commissions due on the sale of products and related services in Oman.
Representing a major oil and gas company in an ICC arbitration relating to disputed delay, disruption and variation claims arising from the construction of a gas processing plant and pipeline in Northern Africa. The arbitration is seated in Vienna and governed by English law.
Advising a major oil and gas service provider with respect to claims involving termination of a contract on grounds of force majeure arising from COVID-19 on a project in the Middle East.
See more
July 18, 2024
Power Generation, Transmission & Distribution 2024: UK
May 11, 2023
The Critical Path - May 2023
December 6, 2022
COVID as a Force Majeure Event - An Interesting and Unexpected Development in Singapore
October 17, 2024
King & Spalding Recognized With Multiple Rankings in Chambers UK 2025 Guide
October 2, 2024
Legal 500 UK 2025 Recognizes King & Spalding Among Leading UK Law Firms
England and Wales
High Court of Australia
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Law Institute of Victoria
Law Society of England and Wales
Society of Construction Law (Council Member; Secretary)
WPC Energy (UK Committee)
English
German