International Contracts: Experts Discuss Strategies to Avoid and Manage Disputes
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the world marketplace continues to expand, new avenues of trade and commerce are opening between countries. And with this additional growth and integration in international trade comes a direct increase in the importance of international commercial law, especially with regards to litigation.
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Ensure your company is equipped to deal with these risks by attending BNA's December 6 webinar, Litigation Risk Management Series: Minimizing Litigation Risks in International Commercial Agreements. This 90-minute session offers insights and strategies from our panel of experts from Paul Hastings LLP, including Joseph R. Profaizer, Charles A. Patrizia, Scott M. Flicker, and Timothy L. Dickinson. The speakers will provide preemptive guidance and advice to help you avoid contract disputes in the international marketplace — and enable you to manage such disputes if and when they occur.
Every company with international agreements or operations is exposed to the risk that their contractual relationships will produce a significant dispute in a foreign country. Companies that prepare for a potential dispute with an international counter-party well before one emerges are better positioned to more efficiently and effectively resolve the dispute once it occurs.
Register now for this program and get insights and tools to help you:
- Draft contractual dispute resolution provisions: international arbitration and foreign court clauses
- Negotiate agreements with foreign governments and their representatives
- Utilize protections contained in bilateral investment treaties and investment chapters of free trade agreements
About the Speakers
Joseph R. Profaizer maintains a litigation and arbitration practice with Paul Hastings LLP that focuses on complex international disputes. He has represented public and private corporations, as well as foreign sovereigns and their instrumentalities in a variety of complex multi-jurisdictional disputes, including insurance, investment, commercial, construction, energy, employment, e-commerce, pharmaceutical, securities, and technology disputes. He has served as lead counsel and counsel in threatened or actual litigation or arbitration in over 40 countries. Joseph has successfully represented clients in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels, as well as in all aspects of arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, the AAA/ICDR, the LCIA, JAMS, and UNCITRAL.
Charles A. Patrizia is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Paul Hastings LLP with over 30 years of experience in regulatory and trial proceedings, with a concentration in complex matters and matters relating to project development and construction, energy and the environment, and regulation of chemicals and pharmaceuticals. He has an active counseling and litigation practice in project construction, energy and environment, as well as counseling corporations and boards on compliance matters and governance issues in relation to policies and requirements of regulatory agencies. Charles has actively represented a variety of clients on contracting issues, including litigation or arbitration of construction issues, trading issues, and supply agreements.
Scott M. Flicker is Vice Chair of Paul Hastings LLP's Washington, D.C. office and a member of the Firm's Global Compliance, Global Competition and Trade, and Securities Litigation Practice Groups. He represents clients in a variety of regulatory and litigation matters, with a concentration in international trade and commercial regulation, including foreign investment reviews, export controls and trade sanctions, competition law, and trade agreements. Primary industries represented on trade policy and litigation matters include: automobiles and auto parts, aviation, energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, petrochemical, steel, cement/concrete, engineering, high technology, and textiles. He also has extensive experience with UNCITRAL, IACAC, ICC, WIPO, and AAA arbitration procedures.
Timothy L. Dickinson is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Paul Hastings LLP with over 30 years of experience in anti-corruption law. His practice encompasses a number of areas, including all aspects of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, U.S. export laws, economic sanctions, ITAR regulations (including enforcement actions), and political risk insurance.
He works closely with a wide range of industries on FCPA matters, including establishment of compliance programs, due diligence in acquisitions, special investigations and defense before regulators in the U.S. as well as abroad, including the U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office.
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