Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

David W Rivkin, a litigation partner in the firm’s New York and London offices, has broad experience in the areas of international litigation and arbitration. He has handled international arbitrations throughout the world and before virtually every major arbitration institution, including the ICC, AAA, LCIA, ICSID, IACAC and the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. Subjects of these arbitrations have included long-term energy concessions, investment treaties, joint venture agreements, insurance coverage, construction contracts, distribution agreements and intellectual property, among others. Mr Rivkin also represents European, Latin American and Asian companies in transnational litigation in the United States, including the enforcement of arbitral awards and arbitration agreements. Mr Rivkin holds many positions with international organisations, including immediate past chair of the 30,000-lawyer legal practice division of the International Bar Association, which includes the Arbitration Committee that he once headed; president of the North American Users’ Council of the LCIA; and a member of the boards of the Singapore International Arbitration Center and the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. He is on the panels of many arbitration institutions, including the AAA, WIPO, CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Chinese International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), the Cairo Regional Arbitration Centre and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). He served as one of the CAS arbitrators at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and at the 2002 and 2004 Olympics in Salt Lake City and Athens. Mr Rivkin is one of the top three international arbitration practitioners ranked in the top tier worldwide in Chambers Global (2009).