International Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Our international dispute resolution and arbitration team’s experience of complex disputes in legal proceedings and broad cross-jurisdictional practices enable us to offer clear guidance and advice to meet our clients’ needs. We have extensive experience handling cross-border litigation and arbitration across a wide range of industries and jurisdictions, to which we bring technical expertise, commercial acumen and a focus on the resolution rather than the dispute.
The team has extensive experience managing complex, multijurisdictional disputes and can draw on the resources of the more than 1,000 attorneys in the firm. These include lawyers with experience across a wide variety of industries and sectors who have represented clients in financial services, insurance recovery, energy, insolvency-related cases, shareholder disputes, intellectual property, construction, maritime and contractual, tort, and fraud matters across a wide variety of industries and sectors. Such disputes often involve coordinating global asset tracing and recovery, as well as obtaining and defending applications for freezing orders and other injunctive relief.
We assist clients with major arbitrations in important businesses, including all types of energy, infrastructure/industrial, insurance and banking matters. We staff our matters with true international arbitration professionals, ensuring representation that is both cost-effective and efficient. This approach carries into related court proceedings for emergency and interim relief and the enforcement of arbitral awards. It also adds credibility with arbitrators and arbitration institutions.
We have experience representing and advising clients in international commercial disputes in some of the most important international arbitral institutions, including the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) , the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), the Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI), and the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRICICA), among others as well as a number of subject-specialist arbitration forums such as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and London Maritime Arbitration Association (LMAA). We also advise on all facets of investor-state arbitrations arising out of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and similar international trade agreements, including the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). This includes arbitrations administered by the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The depth of the commercial litigation experience of our international dispute resolution and arbitration team has garnered the recognition of multiple team members as “Recommend Lawyers” by The Legal 500 UK.
Our attorneys who practice international arbitration also assist clients with mitigating commercial and political risk in international transactions. At the beginning of a deal, we advise on minimizing commercial risk through the inclusion of an appropriate dispute resolution provision. Political risk can be minimized by structuring foreign dealings in a manner that allows our clients to gain protections afforded by BITs and other international trade agreements.
McGuireWoods represents and advises clients across industries in international commercial disputes and arbitrations in key business and arbitration centers such as London, New York, Dubai, Mexico City, Paris, Amsterdam and Singapore, among others.
