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International Arbitration Practice

Michael Stepek

Michael Stepek

Michael focuses on international commercial arbitration and litigation, investment treaty arbitration, and complex, high-value disputes. He advises on matters involving the control of corporate entities, foreign direct investment, concession agreements, major infrastructure projects, and joint ventures.Michael is chair of Winston Taylor’s International Arbitration Practice, and he appears regularly before the leading international forums throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. He represents clients before numerous international forums in arbitrations conducted pursuant to all the major institutional rules, including ICSID, ICC, LCIA, HKIAC, SCC, and UNCITRAL. Michael has over 30 years of experience in international law conducted pursuant to various institutional rules as well as ad hoc. He also appears as an arbitrator in such disputes.Licensed in England & Wales and the United States, and serving as an Accredited Neutral of the Unified Patent Court’s Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre, Michael focuses on the energy, power, mining, telecommunications, and transportation sectors. He is also a member of the firm’s Videogame, Gaming and Esports Group.Michael is renowned as a top-tier practitioner by leading legal directories. He is listed in the “Hall of Fame” in The Legal 500 where he is described as “uniformly excellent” and a “rare lawyer who knows his practice area inside and out”. He is also acknowledged as an expert by LawDragon, named to the International Arbitration Powerlist for the UK, recommended as a leader in his field by Chambers Global and Best Lawyers in Switzerland in the fields of Arbitration and Mediation, Energy Law, and International Arbitration.

Team Services

Winston & Strawn has decades of experience representing clients in commercial and investor-state international arbitrations. Well-known by the leading players in the global arbitration arena, our team of attorneys enforces awards around the world, knows every angle of international disputes, and has a robust understanding of our clients’ industries.

We are consistently ranked as a top player in arbitration in The American Lawyer’s “Arbitration Scorecard,” The Global Arbitration Review, Chambers, Legal 500, and Décideurs-Stratégie, amongst others. Members of our international arbitration practice have appeared in publications such as Chambers Global, Best Lawyers, Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration, Legal Media Group’s Best of the Best (International Arbitration), Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration, Guide to the World’s Leading Litigation Lawyers, and Latinvex.

Our international arbitration practice group is one of the few practices of its kind with offices in the key arbitration centers of Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, and Washington, D.C. This internationally based team enables us to work seamlessly in all kinds of arbitrations, anywhere in the world and under almost any type of law. Our leading international arbitration practice is a stand-alone, globally integrated group that builds teams across offices to meet the specific needs of each case with qualified personnel.

Our practitioners come from a rich cultural background and are qualified in multiple jurisdictions. They are native or fluent speakers of, among other languages, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, English, Hungarian, Russian, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Ukrainian. Our team members belong to leading arbitration and mediation panels and include practitioners who have experience sitting as an arbitrator, mediator, and expert determiner.

Successful resolution of an international dispute begins well before arbitration proceedings are commenced and requires assertive follow-through after they are completed. We advise and assist our clients on every stage of the process, from drafting arbitration clauses at the outset, negotiating or mediating a dispute wherever possible (often resolving the dispute before proceedings are commenced), right through to preparing and conducting arbitration cases from start to finish and acting as advocates at arbitration hearings.

COMMERCIAL DISPUTES
Over its long history, Winston & Strawn’s International Arbitration Practice has handled virtually all types of commercial arbitrations in a wide variety of industry sectors. This includes utility projects, infrastructure and construction; banking and financial services; manufacturing; energy, oil and gas, power; mining, metals and commodities; technology and telecommunications; international sales; pharmaceuticals, life sciences, and medical devices; and aircraft, automotive, and transportation. These arbitrations relate to some of the largest disputes in the world.

INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION
Winston & Strawn is well known for investment arbitration representations and has a wealth of experience acting for a diverse mix of European, North and South American, Middle Eastern, and Asian sovereign states and investors. Our arbitration lawyers are highly experienced in representing multinational companies in arbitrations under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties as well as advising clients on public international law issues, including those related to investment strategies for the protection of foreign investments.