Arnold & Porter boasts a growing commercial arbitration practice, commended for life sciences arbitration and tech-related disputes. Disputes linked to Asia are a particular strength of the practice. San Francisco based Maria Chedid acts as chair of the practice, having acted on a number of ICC arbitrations involving the technology and energy industries. Chedid also plays a leading role in the ICDR’s global working group on technology and life science arbitration, bringing this expertise to the practice. The practice consists of a number of bilingual lawyers, allowing arbitrations to be handled in Spanish, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese, to list a few. Based in Washington DC, Paolo Di Rosa represents sovereign states in a number of multi-billion dollar claims, while Sally Pei focuses on transnational disputes and foreign sovereign immunity. Operating out of New York, Mélida Hodgson is a skilled investor-state arbitrator, and is particularly skilled in Latin America.
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Maria Chedid
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Paolo Di Rosa; Mélida Hodgson; Sally Pei; Kenneth Chernof; James Herschlein; Marcus Asner