Shayda Vance

Shayda Vance is an associate in Hughes Hubbard’s Washington, D.C. office.  As part of the firm’s litigation group, Shayda has significant experience in all aspects of federal litigation in matters ranging from corporate liability and financial fraud to questions of constitutional law.  As part of the arbitration practice group, Shayda has experience in investment treaty arbitrations under ICSID rules.  Shayda has also represented clients before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. 

Shayda has extensive experience clerking for federal, state, and international courts.  Prior to joining the firm, Shayda clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Collyer on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and for the Honorable Senior Judges of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.  Shayda has also clerked for the Honorable Justice Sisi Khampepe of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and spent several years advocating for survivors of gender-based violence in Johannesburg.  

Shayda is an active member of the firm’s pro bono practice and a volunteer for the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit.

• Represented a group of Ukrainian gasoline companies who pushed back against Russia’s attempt to toss their claims in D.C. federal court, as part of a series of arbitrations over gas stations and other assets the Russian government seized after its 2014 invasion of Crimea
• Counsel to a Panamanian investor in an ICSID arbitration against the Republic of Panama 
• Counsel to a Chinese company to contest enforcement of an arbitral award in federal court
• Counsel to a holder of sovereign bonds in litigation against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
• Counsel to an individual survivor of sexual violence before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a complaint against the Republic of Bolivia
• Counsel to individuals in a class action seeking to assert First Amendment rights to free speech
• Counsel to an individual asserting defamation claims in federal court