Profile

C. Ryan Reetz is the managing partner of Bryan Cave, LLP's Miami, Florida office. He represents clients as trial counsel in international and domestic commercial and regulatory disputes, including investor-state arbitration, international commercial arbitration, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, foreign sovereign immunity litigation, class actions, complex commercial litigation, and administrative proceedings.

In addition to acting as counsel, he serves as an arbitrator in international commercial disputes.

Mr. Reetz frequently writes and lectures on arbitration and litigation topics. He teaches transnational civil litigation and arbitration as an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law, and taught the same subject at the University of Miami School of Law from 2003 to 2010. He also serves as a visiting professor at the University of Navarra School of Law in Pamplona, Spain. Mr. Reetz is also an instructor for the Florida Regional Program of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and has lectured at the Swiss Arbitration Academy and at a number of law schools, including Doshisha University, Marmara University, Istanbul Bilgi University and Istanbul Kültür University. He is the co-author (with Pedro J. Martinez-Fraga) of Public Purpose in International Law: Rethinking Regulatory Sovereignty in the Global Era, published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press.

Mr. Reetz also serves with numerous professional organizations, including the Florida Bar's inaugural board certification committee for international litigation and arbitration; the Miami International Arbitration Society, which he chaired in 2017; the Florida Bar International Law Section, which he chaired from 2013 to 2014; and the American Law Institute.