International Dispute Resolution

Our litigators represent clients around the world in international arbitrations and in disputes that bring international companies into the U.S. courts. We are highly experienced on the issues that recur in international litigations, such as the Hague Convention on Service of Process and the Hague Convention on Evidence, as well as parallel, simultaneous litigations in the United States and abroad. We regularly resolve issues of personal jurisdiction and coordinate with local counsel on the application of foreign law.

Representative Client Work

• Settled an international price fixing investigation against a Japanese company and SEC and criminal investigations against the German unit of an international accounting company
• Helped wealthy foreign investors in a variety of actions to recover property and money lost to fraud
• Took successful action for a Dutch pension fund against a major accounting company to obtain recovery for negligent accounting advice
• Undertook an international arbitration for a multi-national pharmaceutical company in a matter involving a distribution agreement
• Obtained a reversal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, of an order requiring children to return to Ireland, based on grave risk of further domestic violence
• Initiated and handled a self-administered (ad hoc) arbitration proceeding conducted in the U.K. under the UNCITRAL
• Successful prosecution in the International Centre for Resolution of Investment Disputes, sitting in Paris, of an institutional expropriation arbitration against a former Soviet republic
• Development of FCPA policies for use abroad
• Investigation of possible FCPA violations in connection with European and Middle Eastern activities