About Ciara
Ciara Ros focuses on resolving commercial and contentious issues for clients across a wide range of industries including energy, construction, infrastructure, mining, wreck salvage, banking and financial services, and telecoms. Ciara worked in for Dubai three years after qualification, advising clients on project finance, commercial contracts, and mergers and acquisitions, alongside her practice as an arbitration lawyer, giving her a unique cross-practice view with significant transactional and disputes experience. Ciara returned to London in 2018 to concentrate on her disputes practice, with a particular focus on energy and infrastructure, mining and construction disputes, and international commercial arbitration (including investor state disputes). Ciara has been recognized as a Key Lawyer for International Arbitration by the Legal 500 since 2022, has been individually recognised in GAR 30 2024, is recommended as a Future Leader (Non-Partner) for Arbitration in the Lexology Index 2025 and was included in the INvolve - The Inclusion People list of Top 100 Women Future Leaders Role Model 2022. Ciara is the current Chair of Young ITA, a co-founder of Women in Energy connect (WEconnect) UK, and sits on the board of the International Centre of Dispute Resolution (Y&I).
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Notable work & expertise
Recent work
- Acted for a construction company in litigation against a private company in respect of fraud allegations and repayment of fees
- Acted for a state-owned entity in a dispute against a private company in respect of various breaches of a polymer offtake agreement
- Acted for a Central Asian entity in an ICC arbitration against a private company, relating to the termination of a contract for the construction of a solar power plantActed for Middle Eastern parties in an ICC arbitration in connection with a dispute arising out of an oil shale mining and construction project
- Acted for a construction company in litigation against a sub-contractor, relating to a rebate agreement.
- Acted on a number of ICC arbitrations and DAB disputes in connection with the design and construction of major maritime infrastructure project in Central Am erica
- Acted for a Middle Eastern state-owned entity on an ICC arbitration regarding a series of contractual disputes and ethical issues arising out of a marine salvage project
- Acted for an international exploration and production company in a dispute regarding audit exceptions arising out of the operation of a Latin American asset
- Acted for the claimant in an UNCITRAL arbitration under the India-Mauritius Bilateral Investment treaty concerning the cancellation of telecoms licences
- Represented a Middle Eastern state- owned entity in the Dubai International Financial Centre courts, Belgian courts and the Netherlands courts against a private company involving applications and cross- applications for enforcement and set- aside of an arbitral award
- Acted for an international exploration and production company in an ICC arbitration regarding environmental warranties relating to two licensed block in South America
- Advised a Middle Eastern state- owned entity regarding commercial resolution of disputes and project restart strategies for a project involving the reconstruction of two oil terminal
- Acted for an international exploration and production company in an ICC arbitration relating to breaches of warranty in a share purchase agreement for the purchase of Latin American assets
- Acted for a Middle Eastern state-owned entity on an ICC arbitration regarding a delay claim arising out of a marine salvage project
- Represented a Gulf state-owned entity in the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts against a private company involving applications and cross- applications for enforcement and set- aside of an arbitral award
- Represented an international structural façade consultant in ongoing payment and variation disputes in connection with the design and construction of a façade for a research facility in Saudi Arabia
- Acted for Ukrainian oilfield services company in an LCIA Arbitration with a Turkish shipyard over the construction of a new vessel
- Acted for the claimant in a claim presented at ICSID against the Republic of Latvia. The dispute arises from the cancellation of a concession for the private operation of a centralised heating facility
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