International Dispute Resolution
Disputes involving multiple countries and legal systems present complex challenges, which require a deep understanding and practical experience with the applicable rules and practices of multiple jurisdictions. Squire Sanders’ international dispute resolution (IDR) team is skilled at applying creative and efficient solutions to these challenges. With 36 offices reaching across 17 countries and four continents, Squire Sanders is one of a small number of legal practices able to serve the IDR needs of clients on a truly global basis.
We have long-established practice groups throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia immersed in the dispute resolution practices specific to each region. We are respected as formidable litigators and trial lawyers, as well as leaders in alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Our award-winning practice sets itself apart by finding innovative and practical solutions and employing strategic techniques including early case evaluation; screening for appropriate dispute resolution procedures; billing and status-reporting flexibility; and a range of technology tools, combined with professionalism and commercial awareness.
Our lawyers are highly experienced in all forms of dispute resolution including:
- Adjudication
- Advocacy
- Arbitration
- Dispute prevention
- Expert determination
- Litigation
- Mediation
We anticipate our clients' risk exposure, provide consultation on structuring contract remedies and instinctively see the problems posed by particular disputes in the context of the client's broader business interests.
Trained in multiple jurisdictions, we work daily as members of diverse multinational teams. Our IDR practice includes practitioners experienced in complex and high-value claims, as well as routine cases. Additionally, we are leaders in bilateral investment treaty arbitration, the most important frontier of international law. We have participated in high-profile treaty cases including those involving banking and monetary regulation, the petroleum industry, electrical generation and gold mining. We are also preeminent in representing buyers in the negotiation and arbitration of natural gas price reviews (gas re-openers).
Common Provisions in International Arbitration Agreements – A Key Issues Checklist
Most, if not all, international conventions and national arbitration laws require an arbitration agreement be in writing to be valid. The following checklist, offered in several languages, reviews the key issues you should be aware of when preparing international arbitration agreements.
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Representative Experience
- Representing a large supplier of natural gas to secure a declaration reducing the price by more than a half billion dollars of liquefied natural gas from Nigeria LNG Limited. The American Lawyer 2007 summer supplement, "Focus Europe," listed this win among its Ten Big Arbitration Awards.
- Acting for an Italian arms manufacturer in a US$400 million dispute with a US arms manufacturer. The dispute was the subject of an ICC arbitration in Paris.
- Representing the Czech Republic in an ongoing UNCITRAL arbitration brought by two alleged investors from Germany under the German-Czech bilateral investment treaty. The claim alleges that claimants’ retail center project had to be aborted because of unlawful actions of the Czech Republic, allegedly causing damages in excess of €70 million.
- Advising a UK-based manufacturer of healthcare products on general litigation matters as well as insolvency and dilapidation claims.
- Appealing successfully to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the decision of the International Olympic Committee to strip athletes of their Olympic medals for an alleged anti-doping rule violation.
- Providing general dispute advice to a UK-based sports programming company.
- Representing a Central European nation in defense against claims totaling US$27 million based on a bilateral treaty on investment protection between that nation and the UK. The claims arose out of privatization of the nation's telecommunications industry. The dispute was resolved under Stockholm rules.
- Assisting with the attempted recovery of a mistaken payment made to a company in China. Our advice included a consideration of theft act issues and the problems posed by the defendant being based out of the jurisdiction, resulting in us working closely with our offices in Hong Kong and Beijing.
- Representing the Republic of El Salvador, through a government instrumentality, in a US$250 million dispute arising from a hydrothermal energy concession in an ICC arbitration.
- Handling a claim for recovery of monies from a Portugal-based company set up for a major PTA plant in Portugal, which received both national and European funding.