Areas of Specialization: Transnational commercial transactions and litigation; International arbitration and related litigation; crisis management.Bar Admissions: New York (1978); Germany (1978); France (1992-2006)Member: Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS); American Arbitration Association, International Dispute Resolution Center (International Panel); ICC, Arbitration Commission; Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre; The Mediation and Conciliation Network (MCN), New DelhiArbitration Experience: Chairman, sole arbitrator, arbitrator, and counsel in numerous institutional and in ad hoc cases. Proceedings conducted to date were in the English, French, and/or German languages, involved parties from the following countries: Australia; Austria; Belgium; Egypt; England; France; Germany; Greece; India; Italy; Japan; Luxemburg; Nigeria; Philippines; Poland; Rumania; Russia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; United States; and the following industries: airlines, automotive, construction, construction management, fashion, financial services, high tech, hotel management, IP, IT, leisure parks, machinery, media, optical, paper, pharmaceuticals, professional sports, reinsurance, telecomsPublications: ICC Legal Handbook on Global Sourcing Contracts, Chapter 14 Disputes (2007); U.S. Misinterpretation of the Hague Evidence Convention, 24 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. 231 (1986), cited by the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of France, the Solicitor General of the United States, and other amici curiae in the Aérospatiale case; Hague Conference on Private International Law, Permanent Bureau, Prel. Doc. No. 10, The Mandatory / Non- Mandatory Character of the Evidence Convention (December 2008) at fn. 8 and 31. Transnational Litigation, 18 Int’l Law. 793 (1984), cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Aérospatiale (Justice Blackmun, with whom Justice Brennan, Justice Marshall, and Justice O'Connor join, concurring in part and dissenting in part), 482 U.S. 522, 565 (1987)

Representative Clients and Work: Westinghouse world-uranium-cartel case (int'l pre-trial discovery); EuroDisney/Rep. of France investment agreement (dispute resolution); Hague Evidence Convention before US courts; California performance bond litigation; contesting at the diplomatic level blacklisting of foreign companies by the Philippines; preventing billion-dollar-arbitration claim threatened by Indonesia; advising on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; advising Harvard Medical School on the regulatory aspects of nuclear-power project ...