International Arbitration & International Dispute Resolution
EXPERTISE
International Arbitration
International Business
Other Legal Services
We advise our clients, be it corporations, private investors or state entities, on international commercial arbitration, investor-treaty arbitration and other international disputes. Our legal services are sought out in various industries from construction & engineering, machinery, real estate, oil & energy, petrochemicals, and telecommunications, to banking & finance and insurance.
We act as counsel or provide advice in both institutional and ad hoc arbitrations conducted under established international arbitration rules and in other procedures.
Assisting clients at all stages of the dispute resolution process, we craft calibrated trial strategies and provide support in pre-trial negotiations and out of court settlements. We appear before courts and arbitral tribunals when applying for or defending preliminary measures, and represent parties in courts hearing petitions for setting aside arbitral awards. Clients approach us to enforce or resist enforcement of international arbitral awards and agreements. Understanding the related budgetary issues ensures operating in a lean and cost-efficient manner.
Given our knowledge of the Central & Eastern European region, we are retained as local counsel and serve as arbitrators or expert witnesses in arbitrations and other international disputes with Czech or Slovak elements.
Reflecting the complex nature of international disputes, we regularly work for our clients as legal advisors or liaison counsel, collaborating closely with co-counsel admitted in jurisdictions in Europe and oversees whose laws apply to the case in question.
Consulted on the issues arising in negotiations on international dispute resolution clauses, we often structure arbitration agreements and provide related transactional advice.
We inter alia
- represented a prominent transportation-system producer in an UNCITRAL arbitration against a state entity in Eastern Europe stemming from an infrastructure project financed by the EBRD
- advised a multi-national corporation in a BIT dispute against a sovereign in Central & Eastern Europe, arising from a real-estate development project
- acted for a Czech machinery group in an ad hoc arbitration arisen from the contract for work concluded with a state entity in the Balkans
- advised a U.S.-based multi-national petrochemical corporation in an arbitration against its supplier seated in Germany and governed by DIS Rules
- represented an international construction group in an ICC arbitration against a Slovak investor arising out of a construction project governed by FIDIC
- advised a leading power engineering company against a Russia-based entity in an EUR 80 million SCC arbitration stemming from a construction of a power plant in Russia
- represented an automation technology supplier in a dispute stemmed from an infrastructure project governed by the ICC Rules against a state entity in North Africa
- advised a Czech machinery group in a dispute governed by ICC Rules that originated in a contract for delivery of machinery units concluded with a municipality in Central & Eastern Europe
- advised a supplier of telecommunication systems based in Central & Eastern Europe on its BIT-based claims against two sovereigns in Central Africa
- advised a joint venture based in the Middle East in a dispute with a German sub-contractor in an ICC arbitration regarding gas pipeline construction in the region