Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP’s international arbitration practice boasts vast experience across commercial arbitrations and investor-state disputes, representing clients in all major jurisdictions. The company is particularly skilled at handling high-profile bet-the-company cases and yields extensive experience handling S1782 matters. The team further handles arbitrations across a wide industry range of industries and arbitration specific subject matters, particularly adept at resolving jurisdictional and substantial merits issues, and undertaking advocacy, along with enforcing and challenging arbitration awards internationally. Displaying the team’s ability to act on international matters, the team recently successfully enforced €290 and €42 million ICSID arbitration awards against the Kingdom of Spain. John Gardiner acts as global head of the firm’s international litigation and arbitration practice, leading the team with Julie Bédard, who regularly represents clients in high-profile disputes. Timothy Nelson is key to the practice, with expertise in oil and gas, nuclear, and solar matters, as well as representing sovereign entities, while Jennifer Permesly‘s expertise lies in the construction, energy, and mining sectors. Gregory Litt is also noted, recently representing a client in an intricate bet-the-company dispute related to the ownership and control of a global talent agency. All mentioned lawyers are based in New York.