Local & International

Arbitration

COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION

Our lawyers combine the expertise and understanding of the arbitration field with industry knowledge, combining our previous extensive experience in commercial maters across the spectrum of major industries. We are mixing our skills in order to exchange and develop detailed knowledge of our clients’ industries and businesses.

We advise at all stages of the arbitration process, in several major areas such as:

  • assisting and representing claimants and respondents in commercial arbitration, either local or international, including any preliminary attempt to reach an amicable settlement
  • assessing applicable law according to Romanian law on the settlement of conflicts
  • contracting the arbitration agreement
  • pre-arbitral negotiations
  • alternative dispute resolution
  • claim & risk management
  • challenge & enforcement of arbitral awards
  • assessing public policy law under Romanian law, as well as other possible bars to the recognition and enforcement in Romania of foreign arbitral awards
  • analyzing and reviewing foreign legislation in order to assess possible bars to enforcement of arbitral awards in other jurisdictions.
  • arbitration resolution – under most popular rules of international arbitration, including Rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Vienna International Arbitration Centre (VIAC), the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

Last but not least we also appear before national courts to promote or defend applications for interim measures in support of arbitration, such as injunctions, attachments and orders preserving evidence.

PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW ARBITRATION

This is another reason why clients return to us: our detailed knowledge of key public international law arbitration.

We have extensive experience in this field, covering all types of this arbitration related disputes. We offer our clients a clear view upon the tactical and procedural avenues open to them before initiating any type of judicial proceeding and we make every endeavour to ensure that our clients’ interest is well-protected during the entire course of the arbitration.

In this field, we focus mainly on:

  • assisting clients (both investors and state bodies) in international arbitration of disputes flowing from breaches of bilateral investment protection treaties (identifying possible claims;
  • assessing viability of possible claims under public international law;
  • assessing breaches of local legislation and/or conduct by state bodies possibly amounting to breach of a State’s international obligations;
  • notifying international bodies of the intention to arbitrate;
  • assisting during preliminary attempts at settlement;
  • preparing and filing submissions, documentary evidence, preparing witness statements, etc.