Profile

Professional Activities

International litigation and arbitration, with particular experience in investor-state arbitration under bilateral investment treaties and International Centre for the Resolution of Investment Disputes (ICSID) cases, service as arbitrator in investor-state arbitration under UNCITRAL Rules, as well as International Chamber of Commerce ("ICC") appointed arbitrator in commercial cases; and experience with Inter-American Arbitration Commission, UNCITRAL, ICC, ICDR, London Sugar Association and ad hoc arbitrations. Counsel in first-ever WTO panel and Appellate Body proceeding, and five GATT panel proceedings. Experience with multi-jurisdictional disputes, international insolvencies, asset-recovery, foreign sovereign immunity and act of state cases. Counsel to sovereign issuer of more than $50 billion of debt securities with arbitration as method for dispute resolution.

Education

• Harvard University, J.D., 1977
  Articles Editor, Harvard International Law Journal
  Best Brief Ames Alternative Moot Court
• Yale University, B.A., 1974
  Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Departmental Honors in History and
  Latin American Studies, Andrew D. White European History Prize, Yale Ski Team (Captain)