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Deborah Ruff
Work Department
International Arbitration; Litigation; Real Estate & Construction
Position
Deborah Ruff leads Pillsbury’s Arbitration – U.S. & International practice. She has extensive experience in multi-jurisdiction disputes, with a focus on high-value and complex international arbitration in the energy, infrastructure and construction, telecommunications and financial sectors.
Deborah conducts international arbitration disputes often over JOAs, the construction of and off-take from refineries and petrochemical plants, as well as rig, energy trading and transport, and coal and nuclear power plant disputes. She also regularly represents clients in other infrastructure, shareholder and financial disputes. Deborah conducts arbitrations under the rules of all of the major institutions and rules including the LCIA, the ICC, DIAC, the Swiss, Stockholm, Hong Kong and UNCITRAL Rules. She has also represented both investors and states in BIT and ICSID cases.
Languages
French; German; Italian; Spanish
Education
M.A., Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Lawyer Rankings
London > Dispute resolution > International arbitration
(Hall of Fame)Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP‘s ‘first-class arbitration group‘ is particularly well known for energy-related disputes. ‘One of the top arbitration lawyers in the country‘, practice head Deborah Ruff
specialises in high-value disputes involving clients from the energy, infrastructure, construction, telecoms, banking, and corporate sectors. Ruff also represents both investors and states in bilateral investment treaty and multilateral treaty cases. At counsel level, Julia Kalinina Belcher focuses on CIS, MENA and US-related claims, while Charles Golsong is ‘an extraordinary lawyer‘.
London > Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is well-known for its longstanding relationship with Chevron and is praised for the team’s ‘breadth of industry connections’ in the oil and gas sector. The group is seeing increasingly impressive mandates at all levels of the value chain, including upstream and downstream work. Greg Hammond joined from Dentons in July 2022 and co-leads the oil & gas group in conjunction with Deborah Ruff.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- International arbitration London > Dispute resolution
- Oil and gas London > Projects, energy and natural resources
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Industry focus > TMT
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas