Firm founder Jonathan Schiller established and leads the firm’s International Arbitration group, a practice that has grown into a global team advising clients in complex commercial and investor-state disputes around the world.
We are business-minded lawyers who understand that international arbitration may be part of a broader international strategy with parallel proceedings potentially including civil litigation, regulatory and legislative proceedings, mediation, commercial negotiations, and media communications. In all of our representations, we combine this business-oriented perspective with our US and UK trial law experience along with our long-term work in crisis management, economic and damages analysis, and international enforcement proceedings to help our clients pursue successful outcomes.
Our team is led by lawyers in New York, London, Washington D.C., and Miami — a key gateway to Latin American disputes. We represent clients before all major arbitral institutions, including the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, AAA, VIAC and NASD, as well as in UNCITRAL and other ad hoc arbitrations. Recent work includes arbitrations sited in Athens, Brussels, Dubai, Doha (Qatar), Geneva, The Hague, London, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm, Vienna, Vietnam, Zurich, and Washington D.C. Our lawyers are fluent in more than a dozen languages and qualified in numerous international jurisdictions.
We are well-versed in the nuances of public international law, with exceptional jurisdictional diversity, giving us a broad understanding of the rules and norms governing any potential dispute our clients face. This enables our lawyers to deal with states and state entities, sovereign immunity, and related issues, in both private and public international law claims involving states and state assets.
We identify and collaborate closely with the best local counsel in local jurisdictions when necessary.
Members of our team, from time to time, serve as arbitrators in the ICC, ICSID, PCA, AAA and others in matters, as well as in ad hoc proceedings.