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Mr Elliot Friedman

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Work Department

International Arbitration

Position

Partner

Career

Elliot is a partner in Freshfields’ international arbitration practice. He focuses on international arbitration (commercial and investor-state) and international litigation, with a particular focus on disputes in the tech, energy and pharma sectors. Elliot has handled international arbitrations before almost every major arbitral institution, and his experience includes disputes involving long-term energy contracts, bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, joint venture agreements, construction contracts, distribution agreements, and intellectual property. Elliot also represents companies in the US courts in transnational litigation, including the enforcement of arbitral awards.  He has played a leading role in some of the most ground-breaking, landmark arbitration matters in recent history. This includes representing BG Group against Argentina in BG’s success before the US Supreme Court (the first time the Supreme Court has reviewed a Bilateral Investment Treaty award), ConocoPhillips in three mega arbitrations against Venezuela, which recently led to a landmark US$8.5 ICSID award in favor of ConocoPhillips (the largest ICSID award on record), a US$2 billion ICC award, and a US$55 million ICC award.

Elliot was named as one of Who’s Who Legal’s leading arbitration lawyers in 2021.  He was also recently appointed to the Executive Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and to the Executive Committee of the New York International Arbitration Center.

Elliot is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (Australia) and Harvard Law School.

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Elliot Friedman –Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

A global leader in arbitral disputes, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is noted for its impressive market share of ICSID cases, with a particularly prominent record in complex investment disputes involving Latin American states. Alongside its dominant investor-state practice, the group is also routinely engaged to handle commercial arbitrations, where it is primarily active on behalf of multinational corporations in the energy and natural resources, infrastructure, pharmaceutical, and technology sectors. From Washington DC, Nigel Blackaby co-heads the firm’s Latin America practice and is highly regarded for his expertise in LatAm-related arbitral proceedings, especially mining and energy disputes. Blackaby recently acted alongside Caroline Richard, also in DC, to represent Canada-based Eco Oro Minerals Corporation in bringing a claim against Colombia under the Canada-Colombia Fair Trade Agreement. New York-based Elliot Friedman heads the international arbitration practice in the Americas and advises on major multi-jurisdictional commercial and investment treaty disputes; he is notably representing ConocoPhillips in a series of cases relating to the 2007 expropriation of three major oil investments in Venezuela, one of the largest expropriations in history. Rounding out the senior partners is Buenos Aires- and New York-qualified Noiana Marigo, who co-heads the international arbitration and Latin America groups; she is acting for BBVA in an ICSID arbitration against Bolivia concerning the nationalization of the country’s pension fund administration industry. The group also includes New York-based Thomas Walsh, who was promoted to partner in May 2022.

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