Arbitration
Our lawyers have extensive experience leading arbitrations. We regularly counsel clients on pre-arbitration strategy, including compelling or opposing arbitration, and appear before arbitrators from all leading arbitration institutions, such as AAA/ICDR, JAMS, CPR, and FINRA.
Representative Matters:
- Won an arbitration victory for a confidential hedge fund in connection with dispute over earn-out payments relating to real estate contract.
- Won an arbitration victory for a reinsurer in connection with nine-figure dispute over the coverage available under a reinsurance policy that reinsured batch-insurance policies issued to an automobile manufacturer by its captive insurer.
- Won one of the largest investor arbitration awards on record for Rosen Capital after a two-week merits hearing.
- Won an arbitration defense victory awarding claimant $0 in a confidential arbitration concerning expropriation of exploration rights.
- Won an arbitration defense victory awarding claimant $0 after an eight-day merits hearing concerning a $1 billion claim by a pipeline company arising from an alleged natural gas dedication obligation in a confidential arbitration under Texas law.
- Won an arbitration victory for Limetree Bay Terminals in a bet-the-company breach of contract dispute concerning the terms of a nine-figure oil storage lease agreement. After a nine-day hearing dominated by complex fact and expert testimony concerning technical engineering concepts, the three-arbitrator panel ruled in Limetree’s favor, ordering the adversary to specifically perform the agreement and to pay Limetree damages.
- Successfully represented FirstEnergy Generation LLC in confidential arbitrations and related federal litigation concerning several long-term coal transportation contracts with three national railroads. Deployed deep expertise with environmental regulation impacting coal- and gas-fired generation as well as the operation, efficiencies, and costs of various pollution control devices. The matter settled favorably.
