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138 FETTER LANE
LONDON
EC4A 1BT
England
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Bernhard Maier
Work Department
Commercial Arbitration, Investor-State Arbitration; Public international law advisory
Position
Bernhard is Counsel at Signature Litigation specialising in commercial and investment treaty arbitration, with a particular focus on the natural resources, mining and technology industries. He also represents clients in contentious and non-contentious public international law matters and sits as an arbitrator.
Bernhard is a member of the UK Attorney General’s C Panel of Public International Law Counsel to the Crown and a Professor at King’s College London. Bernhard is regularly invited to speak at leading industry conferences such as the Financial Times’ inaugural Cyber Resilience Summit.
Bernhard has acted for claimant and respondent parties in a wide range of investment treaty and commercial arbitration matters (including under the Energy Charter Treaty and ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, VIAC, ASA, DIS and AAA Rules), as well as related cross-border litigation and enforcement issues.
Highlights of Bernhard’s practice include acting for the claimants in a US$250 million shareholders’ dispute pertaining to a leading financial technology (fintech) company in Asia, securing wins for the governments of Barbados, Kenya and Slovakia in three separate high-profile investment treaty arbitrations and settling a nearly US$50m dispute for a client in the cloud computing business.
Career
Associate, Volterra Fietta, 2011; Associate, DLA Piper, 2016; Senior Associate, Squire Patton Boggs, 2017; Counsel, Signature Litigation, 2021.
Education
University of Southampton; UCL.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Dispute resolution > International arbitration
‘Excellent specialist litigation firm‘ Signature Litigation LLP handles a broad range of international commercial arbitration matters. The team also covers high-profile investment arbitrations. Ioannis Alexopoulos is an expert in matters involving Greece, the Balkans, the Middle East, Brazil, and sub-Saharan Africa; Josh Wong is a ‘superb strategist‘; and counsel Bernhard Maier focuses on the natural resources and energy sector. In late 2022, international arbitration partner Tsegaye Laurendeau joined from Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes, while Neil Newing was elevated to partner.