Chaffetz Lindsey Receives Chambers USA Client Service Award

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Chaffetz Lindsey Receives Chambers USA Client Service Award

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May 2014 – Chaffetz Lindsey has recevied the Client Service Award for International Arbitration at this year’s Chambers USA Awards. The award is given to the firm that is consistently singled out by clients during Chambers’ research for the quality and range of their client service. As an example, one client stated “I have been continually impressed by [Chaffetz Lindsey’s] dedication, commitment and professionalism – it has been a real pleasure working with them.” The firm is delighted to receive the award and very grateful for the time our clients take to participate in the research process.

The Chambers USA Awards coincide with the release of the 2014 edition of Chambers USA, and Chaffetz Lindsey has been recognized again in the areas of International Arbitration and Insurance / Reinsurance. Several lawyers from the firm were highlighted for their experience in these areas, including Peter Chaffetz, David Lindsey, James Hosking, Steve Schwartz, Jennifer Gorskie, Yasmine Lahlou and Karen Baswell.

Steven Reisberg Joins Chaffetz Lindsey

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May 2014 – Chaffetz Lindsey has announced that Steven Reisberg, a specialist in commercial litigation, international arbitration and intellectual property, has joined the firm as partner. Prior to joining Chaffetz Lindsey, Steven practiced at Willkie Farr & Gallagher for 28 years.

Steven is an experienced trial lawyer, who has represented clients across a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, electronics, technology, insurance, and financial services. His cases in federal and state court have included patent litigation, licensing disputes, joint ventures, post M&A and other complex contract disputes. In addition, he has been counsel before domestic and international arbitration tribunals, and also frequently sits as an arbitrator. Steven serves on the Committee on International Commercial Disputes of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and is the author of the recent New York Law Journal article “What is Expert Determination? The Secret Alternative to Arbitration.”

Steven’s recruitment follows that of reinsurance specialist Steve Schwartz in February 2014, the promotion of Jennifer Gorskie to partner in January 2014, and several outstanding associate hires this year. Chaffetz Lindsey was established in May 2009 by 5 partners from Clifford Chance, and has grown to 19 lawyers in its first five years.

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James Hosking Discusses Investment Trends Between Asia and Latin America

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April 2014 – Partner James Hosking spoke at a Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre seminar hosted by Hogan Lovells on “Understanding the Asia-LatAm Trade Relationship” in Miami, which coincided with the ICCA Conference in that city. James was part of an international panel that looked at investment flows in the energy sector, particularly in view of China’s growing need for natural resources. This is a topic James has spoken on previously at seminars in Hong Kong and Brazil. For more information about the event, please contact James Hosking.

Chaffetz Lindsey Seminar on the Intersection of International Public and Private Law

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March 2014 – Chaffetz Lindsey’s latest European Lawyers Forum took the recent crisis in Ukraine and Crimea as a starting point for a discussion about disputes involving the impact of economic sanctions on the enforceability of private commercial contracts. A panel of sanctions and arbitration practitioners, including Maya Lester of Brick Court Chambers in London, Dr. Barbara Maucher of Eren Lawyers in Washington, DC, and Yasmine Lahlou of Chaffetz Lindsey, offered an overview of economic sanctions regimes in the United States and Europe, including how they are promulgated, their form and scope, and how they are enforced, before considering the impact of sanctions on the enforceability of private contracts. Drawing on their experience, the panelists suggested ways in which parties could avoid the impact of sanctions targeting potential commerical partners, the role of international arbitration in resolving disputes that arise in this context, and the availability of interim relief through emergency arbitrations.

The European Lawyers Forum is a Chaffetz Lindsey initiative to provide lawyers trained in Europe or practicing at European-based firms in New York, with a venue to meet and discuss issues affecting U.S./E.U. commerce and dispute resolution. If you would like information about the Forum, please contact Andy Frischknecht or Yasmine Lahlou.

James Hosking Considers Optional Appellate Arbitration Rules

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March 2014 – James Hosking presented at the Seventh Annual ICDR Practice Moot on Optional Appellate Arbitration Rules (OAAR), discussing the rationale and trade-off of review, the availability of review and the mechanics of it, the affect of any appeal on the underlying award, and the enforceability of the appellate award. For more information about these rules, please contact James Hosking.

Chaffetz Lindsey Short-Listed in Two Categories for Chambers USA Awards

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April 2014 – Chaffetz Lindsey has been nominated once again for the Chambers USA Awards for Excellence for International Arbitration Team of the Year and Insurance Team of the Year. The awards, to be announced in May 2014, reflect a firm’s pre-eminence in particular practice areas. The firm has been nominated for three years in a row for the International Arbitration category.

Chaffetz Lindsey Announces Two New Partners

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February 2014 – Chaffetz Lindsey is proud to announce that Steve Schwartz has joined us as a lateral partner and that we have promoted Jennifer Gorskie from counsel to partner.

Steve is a widely respected expert in insurance and reinsurance law with broad trial and arbitration experience. He was most recently a partner at Locke Lord, and previously a partner at Clifford Chance, where he worked closely with what is now the Chaffetz Lindsey insurance and reinsurance team. In addition to his active practice as a trial lawyer, Steve is the author of Reinsurance Law: An Analytic Approach, an industry standard treatise. He also publishes and lectures frequently on legal and market issues. Steve is well known to many of our clients and contacts in the insurance and reinsurance industry, and we are extremely happy to be working together again.

Jennifer is a gifted and dynamic lawyer who has played an important role in the firm’s development. Jennifer joined the firm in early 2011 from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, deepening the firm’s capability in international commercial and investment treaty arbitration and U.S. commercial litigation and arbitration. Fluent in Spanish, Jennifer has extensive experience representing sovereigns and companies based in and investing in Latin America. Since joining us, Jennifer has been a key senior lawyer on some of our largest matters, including several international arbitration matters and a number of large reinsurance cases. Jennifer is an up and coming leader in the arbitration legal community. In addition to speaking and writing regularly on arbitration law and practice, Jennifer serves as a board member and Treasurer of the New York International Arbitration Center.

We’re excited about these two important developments, which will solidify and expand the great client relationships we have been building since we opened our firm in 2009.

Chaffetz Lindsey submits amicus brief on the manifest disregard doctrine

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January 2014 – Chaffetz Lindsey has submitted an amicus brief in support of a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States in Walia v. Dewan (4th Cir. Oct. 28, 2013-4th Cir), a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, addressing the “manifest disregard of the law” doctrine. The brief, a joint effort by Chaffetz Lindsey and Professor George Bermann of Columbia Law School, the Chief Reporter for the Restatement (Third) of International Commercial Arbitration, was submitted on behalf of a group of esteemed practitioners and professors of arbitration law. In Walia, the Fourth Circuit vacated an arbitration award issued in a non-domestic arbitration between a US employer and its Canadian employee, based on its finding that the arbitrator had “manifestly disregarded the law” by interpreting the parties’ contract in a manner which the Fourth Circuit viewed as untenable. The Canadian employee petitioned the Supreme Court to reverse the Fourth Circuit decision and, in doing so, resolve the entrenched circuit split over whether manifest disregard is a proper basis for vacatur. The amicus brief urges the Supreme Court to grant certiorari to resolve the deep circuit divide over the proper use of the manifest disregard doctrine and to correct the Fourth Circuit’s overly broad application of the doctrine in this case. The brief stresses the impact manifest disregard has on the United States’ preeminence as a seat for international arbitration.

The team who worked on the brief included David Lindsey, James Hosking, Jennifer Gorskie and Yujing Yue, all of whom are active members of the New York arbitration community. Chaffetz Lindsey is a founding member of the New York International Arbitration Center, which seeks to cement New York City’s role as a leading home for arbitration. Please contact any of them for more information about this case.

United States Supreme Court Sharply Limits Scope of General Jurisdiction Over Foreign Corporations

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January 2014 – We have been closely following yesterday’s decision by the United States Supreme Court in Daimler AG v. Bauman, which sharply limits the extent to which U.S. courts may exercise personal jurisdiction over foreign corporations in disputes arising from their activities outside the United States. Prior to this ruling, U.S. courts have often applied a more lenient test for personal jurisdiction in such cases. The breadth of the Court’s ruling has surprised many, and its likely effect will be to limit the exposure of foreign corporations with operations in the U.S. to claims arising from their non-U.S. activities.

For further analysis of the decision, please see our case memo.

If you would like further details about this decision, please contact Andreas Frischknecht.

GAR Comments on Chaffetz Lindsey Promotions

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March 2012 – Global Arbitration Review, one of the world’s leading publications on international arbitration developments, comments on the Firm’s recent promotions of Andreas Frischknecht and Yasmine Lahlou. Andy and Yasmine were promoted to Counsel earlier this year in recognition of their contibution to the firm’s growth. Please click here to read the full article.

Andreas Frischknecht and Yasmine Lahlou Promoted to Counsel

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January 2012 – Chaffetz Lindsey is pleased to announce that Senior Associates Andreas (Andy) Frischknecht and Yasmine Lahlou have been named Counsel to the firm.

Andy has been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and previously practiced at Clifford Chance US LLP and Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP for over six years. Andy’s practice includes a broad range of complex commercial disputes, both in international arbitration and in federal and state court litigation. Andy graduated magna cum laude with a degree in law from the University of Bern, Switzerland and holds an LL.M. degree from New York University Law School. His recent publications include an article discussing privilege and confidentiality considerations in third party funding for an October 2011 Special Issue of Transnational Dispute Management (TDM). Andy has dual Swiss-American citizenship and is a bilingual English and German speaker.

Yasmine joined Chaffetz Lindsey in July 2009.  She previously practiced in Paris for over five years at Castaldi Mourre & Partners and at Clifford Chance US in New York for four years. Yasmine’s practice focuses on international commercial arbitration and litigation. Yasmine obtained a Maîtrise en Droit from Paris X Nanterre University with honors and attended a graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin Law School. Yasmine currently serves as a co-chair of the Middle East Committee of the ABA Section of International Law. She has American, French and Moroccan citizenships, and is fluent in English, French and Italian.

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