Practice Details
International Arbitration
The international arbitration practice at Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP is uniquely positioned to provide representation and advice to domestic and international clients in all aspects of the international arbitration and dispute resolution process.
Our international arbitration practice includes investor-state arbitrations, under bilateral or multilateral investment treaties, and private commercial and corporate disputes. We have been involved in a wide variety of international arbitrations, both in an ad hoc setting, employing the UNCITRAL Rules, and with many of the leading international arbitration institutional forums, including the AAA/ICDR, the International Chamber of Commerce, in Paris (ICC), the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), JAMS’ International Arbitration section, and with the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
Tai-Heng Cheng – tenured in international law at the New York Law School – chairs the firm’s international arbitration practice as senior legal advisor to the firm. Professor Cheng is a widely-published scholar on public and private international law, international dispute resolution and international investment law, and is the co-director of New York Law School’s Institute for Global Law, Justice & Policy.
Professor Cheng is one of few practitioners who combines a career as a tenured law professor with an active practice as party counsel and expert in international arbitration. He also has extensive experience serving as an expert, arbitrator or tribunal chair in international arbitration proceedings. He is a member of the panels of neutrals of the American Arbitration Association’s International Center for Dispute Resolution (AAA/ICDR), the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC).
The firm also advises domestic and international clients on the drafting of dispute resolution clauses in contracts, and in both pre- and post-arbitration negotiations, alternative dispute resolution, litigation and enforcement proceedings.
Recent client representations and engagements include:
- Winning an international arbitration award of full damages and 90% of fees and costs on behalf of a foreign asset management company against a financial institution;
- Serving as counsel in an ongoing $400 million bilateral investment treaty arbitration between a mining company and an Eastern European state.
- Serving as counsel in an ongoing $150 million ICC investor-state arbitration between a U.S. corporation and an African state;
- Serving as counsel in an ongoing ICC arbitration concerning an airport project in the United States;
- Chairing an international arbitration tribunal in a franchise dispute between European and Latin American corporations;
- Advising a hedge fund in a $400 million lawsuit against a sovereign state;
- Advising a Balkan state on matters of state succession;
- Serving as an expert in international law in the Bosh v. Ukraine ICSID arbitration;
- Serving as an expert in international law in a $500 million SCC international arbitration concerning a dispute between a foreign investor and host state involving an airport project in Eastern Europe;
- Serving as an expert in arbitration in the $4 billion Nortel bankruptcy proceeding in Canada.
