Patrick Heneghan

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

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The European practice of the International Arbitration Group of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP (Skadden) brings a vast breadth of knowledge and experience to the resolution of international disputes. The practice is headquartered in London and works closely with arbitration experts in Skadden’s other offices across the world. It comprises English solicitors, solicitor-advocates (including Queen’s Counsel) and members of the Paris and Brussels bar.

Members of the European International Arbitration Group have represented clients before every major international arbitral institution, including the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), International Centre for Dispute Resolution/American Arbitration Association (ICDR/AAA), Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), and China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), as well as conducting ad hoc arbitrations under UNCITRAL and other rules.

Our arbitration lawyers offer the full range of arbitration advice, including drafting arbitration agreements, conducting arbitrations and enforcing awards and are particularly experienced in cases involving different systems of national law, transnational law and public international law. Recent contentious work handled in London have concerned disputes under Austrian, Californian, Delaware, Egyptian, English, French, Finnish, Georgian, German, Israeli, Italian, New York, Philippine, Russian and Swedish laws. Many of our lawyers are bilingual and have practised litigation and arbitration in more than one legal system.

We act for sovereign states, banks, multinational companies and major institutions in the commercial, telecommunications, construction, energy and financial services fields. The arbitration practice uses small, focused teams of lawyers for every case and provides a streamlined and cost-efficient service. Unlike many London-based firms, we do not need to hire external barristers to act as advocates in international arbitration as we have the relevant expertise and experience within our arbitration practice.

Members of our practice have been featured in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business (international arbitration); Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in International Arbitration, The Legal 500 and The International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitrators. This year’s Chambers Europe stated: ‘Notwithstanding its enviable reputation in the USA, this firm’s European operation has achieved a level of independence that enables it to flourish in its own right. A ten-partner team based across offices in London, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Munich and Vienna handles work spanning oil and gas, technology, telecoms, shareholder agreements and post-M&A proceedings. Peers say the lawyers here are “thoroughly good people to work with”, while clients are impressed that the team is “as dedicated to succeeding in the matter at hand as we are”.’

Able to draw on the depth and coverage of Skadden’s 2000 lawyers in 25 offices worldwide, we offer clients an unrivalled advantage in planning for and resolving international disputes.