International Dispute Resolution

We have particular experience helping clients address issues that arise in conjunction with major infrastructure and other projects that involve government and private-sector joint ventures. Through close cooperation with the firm's Environment and Natural Resources and Energy groups, we regularly augment our international dispute services with the firm's considerable experience in oil, gas, and extracted minerals, and have significant depth resolving issues that arise in the construction and related industries.

We have handled commercial and geopolitical disputes involving business operations, transactions, projects and strategic alliances across the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and Asia. We regularly represent private parties, publicly held companies, sovereign governments, and state-owned enterprises.

Crowell is ranked among the top arbitration practices in the world by Global Arbitration Review's GAR 100, a well-respected guide to the international arbitration capabilities of law firms. With dozens of lawyers practicing from our offices in Brussels, London, Washington, D.C., and New York, we represent clients from a wide range of industries and geographic regions in disputes under international and bilateral trade agreements and treaties, including arbitrations before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). We have also successfully handled commercial arbitration before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of Arbitration (LCIA), the American Arbitration Association/International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA/ICDR), the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), and ad hoc arbitration under UNCITRAL and other rules. Lawyers in our IDR practice work in a diverse range of languages such as Spanish, French, German, Swedish, Hebrew, Turkish and Arabic.