Leanie van de Merwe

Associate, Covington & Burling LLP

Leanie van de Merwe specialises in international arbitrations and transnational litigation with a particular focus on construction, engineering and energy matters. Ms van de Merwe qualified as an attorney in South Africa in February 2011 and started her career as legal counsel and analyst for the Competition Commission of South Africa, where she was responsible for investigating and prosecuting anti-competitive business practices. In 2014, Ms van de Merwe moved to the Middle East to take on a lecturing position at a university and then in 2015 joined a private practice to focus on international arbitration. Since then, Ms van de Merwe has been engaged on large and complex disputes in a number of jurisdictions, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Qatar, Hong Kong, China and the UK.