Margrit is a Solicitor-Advocate and a Legal Director in the International Arbitration Practice at Mishcon. Margrit is qualified to practice in England and Wales.
Margrit has significant experience acting for clients in complex, high profile, multi-jurisdictional and high-value arbitrations under most major arbitral rules (ICC, LCIA, DIFC-LCIA, ICSID, UNCITRAL, Swiss Rules) and in ad hoc proceedings. She also has experience representing clients in arbitration-related English court proceedings.
Margrit's practice spans a broad range of sectors, notably the energy, infrastructure and consumer sectors. Margrit has acted for corporate clients, States and State-owned entities in commercial and investor-State proceedings. She has also appeared before an international tribunal in State-to-State proceedings.
Margrit regularly advises on issues of public international law, including in the ESG space. Her advisory experience in business and human rights includes advising a Latin American state on the implications of a draft of the UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights; advising a major industrials company on its compliance with national and international human rights standards; and providing strategic litigation advice to an NGO.
Margrit has an academic interest in international law. She held academic research positions during her LLM in Public International Law at Leiden University, where she conducted research into topical issues in investment law and interstate litigation. For a project on corruption and human rights law, she also reviewed historic OECD documents, and researched decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
As a British, German and Argentine national, Margrit's outlook is inherently international. Margrit is an active member of the firm's Latin America & Iberia and German desks. Fluent in English, German and Spanish, she also speaks intermediate Portuguese and French, and basic Italian.
In 2022, Margrit was ranked by Legal 500 as a key lawyer in International Arbitration and Public International Law. She has also been described as "superb" and "always across all details of the case and very hard working" (Legal 500, 2021).