Diamond McCarthy’s International Dispute Resolution Practice features a highly skilled, hands-on team focused on international arbitration and cross-border disputes with complex issues and substantial dollar amounts at stake. Our team includes lawyers with on-the-ground experience in jurisdictions around the globe, allowing us to build on decades of success in our transnational litigation and U.S.-based arbitration practice.
Our practice covers complex cross-border work providing advice and advocacy for private parties, sovereign States and State entities. This practice has developed from our business and insolvency litigation experience involving parties and claims in jurisdictions around the world. The firm regularly handles bet the company cases across a variety of industries and jurisdictions, including under all major international arbitration rules.
We are highly experienced in international commercial and investment-treaty arbitration and transnational litigation work, with a special focus on natural resources and energy, construction and infrastructure, telecommunications, media, and technology, and finance sectors.
Our focus within the energy and natural resources sectors has evolved significantly over decades of representing clients from our origins in the oil patch of Texas, to counsel representing clients in transnational disputes across the globe, with instructions in Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the CIS, and Asia. Diamond McCarthy’s international arbitration work is closely aligned with the firm’s business and insolvency litigation practice and its domestic U.S. arbitration and litigation practice.
In addition to its international work, the firm has an established record of arbitration-related experience in U.S. courts, including in support of international proceedings through the enforcement or vacatur of arbitral awards and discovery under Section 1782.
Our diverse client list includes sovereign governments, Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies, multinational corporations, financial institutions, high-net-worth individuals, international liquidators, and various players in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings, from trustees and receivers to creditors and investors.