Experience

With lawyers located in 32 offices in 15 countries around the world, Squire Sanders has one of the broadest and deepest experience bases in the legal industry. Our work encompasses both public and private sectors, and our offices are situated strategically in financial and political capitals, technology centers, and industrial and agricultural hubs across the globe. With one of the broadest geographic positions in the legal industry, Squire Sanders is uniquely situated to serve a broad range of regional, industry and practice-specific needs.

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Representative Experience for International Dispute Resolution

Representing a Canada-based investor group before ICSID in a dispute against Hungary alleging breaches of the Canada-Hungary BIT. The arbitrator awarded approximately US$84 million in damages to the claimants, for whom we acted as co-counsel.

Winning a multibillion US dollar international arbitral award for a large supplier of natural gas to Spain's energy market. The arbitration was in connection with a price-reopener dispute centered on the value of natural gas to end users in Spain, taking into consideration all applicable transmission and regasification charges and operational issues. Atlantic LNG Company of Trinidad and Tobago had initiated the arbitration, demanding a US$1 billion price increase under a contract between the parties. We defeated the claim and successfully counterclaimed for a substantial price decrease.

Representing a large supplier of natural gas to secure a declaration reducing the price by more than a half billion dollars of liquefied natural gas from Nigeria LNG Limited. The American Lawyer 2007 summer supplement, "Focus Europe," listed this win among its Ten Big Arbitration Awards.

Representing Russian investors in the gold mining industry in an investment arbitration relating to the imposition of a windfall profit tax by the Government of Mongolia.

Representing the Republic of Ecuador in an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) arbitration brought by an oil company alleging expropriation, discrimination and other legal breaches under the US-Ecuador bilateral investment treaty (BIT).

Representing the Czech Republic in an UNCITRAL arbitration filed by a Japan-based investment banking firm involving claims for breach of contract and Czech Republic law in connection with transactions involving shares in a major Czech Republic-based bank. The tribunal asserted jurisdiction although the banking firm had not signed the contract, and the Swiss Supreme Court rejected the banking firm's appeal. Following the final hearing, the case settled on a confidential basis.

Representing the Czech Republic in an UNCITRAL action alleging breaches of the expropriation and discrimination and fair and equitable provisions in the Czech-Netherlands BIT in connection with the forced administration of a major Czech bank. Damages were alleged to be US$1.5 billion. In the liability phase, the expropriation claims and some of the other claims were dismissed, but a breach of the BIT was found on some of the discrimination and fair and equitable claims. The case was settled prior to the beginning of the quantum phase.