Disputes Between Foreign Investors and States

• An American investor in a NAFTA legacy dispute with Mexico arising out of the wrongful expropriation of a silver and zinc mining investment
• A Canadian investor in an ICSID arbitration with Mexico under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership arising out of expropriation of a gold mine
• Malaysian and Australian investors in an ICC arbitration with Poland arising out of the expropriation of an investment in the mining sector
• A Canadian mining company in an ICSID additional facility arbitration against Venezuela arising out of the expropriation of gold mining assets
• A Spanish investor in a dispute with a Colombia arising out of adverse treatment of an investment in the transportation industry
• Dutch investor in a dispute with a Mexico involving adverse measures taken with respect to a multi-billion dollar petrochemical investment
• American and Polish investors in two investment treaty arbitrations against Egypt following the cessation of gas supply from Egypt to Israel during the Arab Spring
• A European energy company in the quantum and annulment phases of its ICSID arbitration against Argentina in the upstream oil and gas, electricity, and gas transportation sectors
• A European energy company in two ICSID annulment proceedings concerning awards against Argentina in connection with investments in water concessions
• Dutch and Portuguese investors in two ICSID annulment proceedings concerning awards against Venezuela in connection with investments in Venezuela’s steel sector
• An English investor in an ICSID annulment proceeding concerning an award against Venezuela in connection with investments in Venezuela’s cattle farming sector
• The government of Saint Lucia in an ICSID case regarding offshore exploration for oil and gas, and claims related to maritime boundaries
• Three Chinese investors in an investment-treaty arbitration against Mongolia arising out of the expropriation of an iron ore mining investment
• A European energy company in an investor-State dispute with a Central Asian State arising out of breach of tax stability provisions in a production sharing agreement
• A European mining company in an ICSID arbitration against a Latin American state for measures taken against coal mining assets
• U.S., Dutch, French, and Spanish energy companies in arbitrations and disputes with Algeria and Sonatrach arising out of the application of a tax on exceptional profits in breach of stability provisions of production sharing agreements in the upstream hydrocarbons sector
• U.S. investors in an UNCITRAL arbitration against Azerbaijan for the expropriation of real estate assets

Commercial Arbitrations

• A Chilean bottle manufacturer in an ICDR arbitration against a US supplier arising out of alleged product defects
• A Guernsey investment group in two ICC arbitrations with major defense and aerospace partners arising out of an offset transaction to broker a satellite program
• An Egyptian midstream gas merchant in a CRCICA arbitration against the Egyptian State-owned oil and gas companies governed by English law and seated in Cairo concerning the repudiation of the gas supply agreement between them and a related ICC tripartite arbitration also involving the Egyptian State-owned oil and gas companies and the Israeli State-owned electricity company seated in Geneva and arising from the repudiation of a contract between them governed by English law and concerning the supply of gas from Egypt to Israel
• European energy companies in a Geneva-seated ICC arbitration against a North African State-owned oil company, concerning the imposition of taxation legislation in breach of contractual stability provisions in a civil law governed production sharing contracts
• An American venture capital firm in an ICC arbitration against a BVI entity and an Egyptian national governed by Egyptian law and seated in Geneva concerning breaches of a shareholder agreement
• A Portuguese cement company in two Paris-seated ICC arbitrations with an Irish entity arising out of a dispute over shareholder rights
• U.S. energy company in an ICC arbitration seated in New York against a Spanish energy company concerning the destination of LNG cargos under an LNG sale and purchase agreement governed by New York law

Arbitration Related Court Proceedings

• A Kuwaiti individual in a proceeding to enforce an ICC arbitration award in the Northern District of California
• An Iraqi entity in 1782 proceedings related to a DIFC award in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• An Armenian entity in a proceeding to challenge the enforceability of an AAA arbitration award in the Southern District of New York
• Two U.S. entities in proceedings to enforce ICSID awards against the Republic of Argentina
• A Swiss biotechnology company in a motion to compel arbitration

Public International Law

• Numerous clients on investment structuring to ensure treaty protection, access to arbitration through properly structured contractual arbitration clauses, and post-award issues of enforcement and collection
• Numerous clients on various issues of public international law, including human rights law, State succession, law of the sea, State attribution, treaty interpretation, and general public international law
• The International Commission of Jurists on matters of judicial procedure and international humanitarian law
• The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission on issues of international humanitarian law
• The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on matters of enforced disappearances
• The ABA Center for Human Rights on the right to peaceful assembly
• The Claims Conference Program for Former Slave and Forced Laborers on reparations owed to Holocaust victims