GAR Again Selects Orrick Among the World’s Top Arbitration Practices

Global Arbitration Review
April.12.2019

Global Arbitration Review (GAR) has once again named Orrick to its list of the world’s top 30 international arbitration practices worldwide. GAR took particular note of Orrick's wins in the tech and energy sectors. This includes prevailing for Telenor in a dispute involving a Ukrainian telecoms venture, the firm’s successes on behalf of Guinea in ICSID, representation of mining companies in cases against Mauritania and Mali, and acting for investors in Energy Charter Treaty claims against Spain and Italy over reforms to the renewable energy sector. Orrick currently lists some 35 active international arbitration cases with a value in excess of $8.4 billion, and in recent months has secured a number of very significant awards for our clients.

The firm’s International Arbitration team is headed by Charles Adams in Geneva. In the past 15 months, the firm has added James Hargrove in Geneva and Mark Beeley in London.

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Charles Adams Partner, International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution

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Charles Adams Partner

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Charles’s experience spans four decades at the highest levels of international dispute-resolution; he has acted in more than 300 arbitral proceedings under various governing laws and under the rules of almost all arbitral institutions in fora all over the world, most frequently as lead counsel, but also on occasion as chairman or co-arbitrator on tribunals in high-stakes cases.

His experience includes disputes in engineering and construction, energy and infrastructure, mining, transportation, telecommunications, life sciences and biotech, intellectual property and franchising and distribution, among many other fields of commercial or industrial endeavor. He has conducted commercial and investor-state arbitrations under the auspices of ICSID, the ICC, ICDR/AAA, LCIA, DIAC, SCC, SAC and SIAC. Charles also advises on export control regulations and economic sanctions administered by the U.S. and the European Union, including matters relating to customs regulations, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, anti-money laundering rules and anti-boycott requirements.

For more than 10 years Charles was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), and he has served on the Board of Advisors of the NGO End Human Trafficking Now and as a guest lecturer at the UN’s International Development Law Organization. Charles frequently appears on Francophone television channels (TF1, LCI, TV5 Monde, Télévision Suisse Romande), as a commentator on political, economic and cultural matters.