Brick Court Chambers

Klaus Reichert SC specialises in international arbitration with substantial experience in dealing with international disputes across a broad spectrum of complex subject matters, industries and governing laws (both common law and civil law) involving sovereigns and commercial parties from all over the World. He has particular experience as an arbitrator arising from cases administered by ICSID, ICC, LCIA, ICDR and the PCA. He has sat in arbitrations on three-member tribunals on multiple occasions in Paris, London, New York, Geneva, The Hague, Singapore and Washington DC. He has a significant focus on commercial cases located in the United States and is one of the few non-Americans admitted as a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators (USA). He is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and was an arbitrator with the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal for many years.

Admitted Ireland 1992 King’s Inns, England & Wales 1996 Middle Temple, Northern Ireland 1998, Inner Bar of Ireland as Senior Counsel 2010; voted by peers on to the 2006 Global Arbitration Review ‘45 under 45’ leading lights of international arbitration; co-chair IBA litigation committee 2008-09; chair, host committee 2008 ICCA Conference (marking the 50th anniversary of the New York Convention.

ICCA Governing Board Member; IBA Council Member of the Legal Practice Division.

University College, Dublin (1990 BCL Law); The Honourable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin (1992 BL Bar School); Queen Mary, University of London (2004 Post-Graduate Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (with merit)).