Yvete Sola

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Yvete Sola

Yvete Sola

Associate
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Yvete Sola

Yvete Sola is a Philippine-qualified Associate at Pogust Goodhead’s London office. She holds a Bachelor of Law from San Beda University (Philippines) and a Bachelor in Business Management from Ateneo de Naga University (Philippines). She obtained her LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement from The Graduate Institute of Geneva (Switzerland) as MIDS scholarship recipient.  

Yvete worked for five years as a government lawyer at the Office of the Solicitor General of the Republic of the Philippines. She represented the government in constitutionality, civil, criminal, and expropriation cases before the Philippine’s Court of Appeals and Supreme Court and international arbitration proceedings. Yvete also trained in international law firms, Volterra Fietta (London) and Lalive SA (Geneva) where she worked on investment and commercial arbitration cases, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva), advising public international law matters.  

Outside her career, Yvete regularly judges the Philip C. Jessup Cup and the Foreign Direct Investment Moot. 

Areas of Expertise

International Investment Arbitration  

International Commercial Arbitration  

Public International Law  

Civil Litigation  

Criminal Litigation  

Expropriation Proceedings  

Career

Staff Lawyer, Volterra Fietta (London) 2022- 2023 

International Arbitration Trainee, LALIVE SA (Geneva) 2022 

Solicitor (State Lawyer), Office of the Solicitor General of the Philippines (Manila) 2017-2022 

Legal Trainee, World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva) 2021 

LL.M. Master in International Dispute Settlement, The Graduate Institute of Geneva (Switzerland) 2020-2021 

International Investment Law, The Hague Academy of International Law (Singapore) 2018  

EU Business Law and WTO Law (Summer Course) Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles (Belgium) 2017 

Bachelor of Law, San Beda University (Philippines) 2010-2015 

Bachelor of Business Management Honours Program (Philippines) 2006-2010 

Languages

English  

Filipino  

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