Joe Neuhaus joined Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in 1987 and became a partner in 1992. His practice is focused on international commercial litigation in both arbitral and court settings, with particular emphasis on Latin American matters. He is co-coordinator of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s arbitration practice and has served as counsel and arbitrator in numerous arbitral proceedings, including ad hoc proceedings, arbitrations administered by the International Chamber of Commerce and the American Arbitration Association and arbitrations involving sovereign entities. He has also served as counsel in a variety of arbitration-related disputes in court, as well as other commercial litigation and regulatory investigations.

Mr Neuhaus is the co-author with Howard M Holtzmann of A Guide to the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration: Legislative History and Commentary (Kluwer, 1989). He is a vice chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitraion and is a member and former chair of the Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York State Bar Association. He is also a member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct (COSAC), the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the New York City Bar Association, the American Bar Association and American Society of International Law.

Mr Neuhaus graduated from Dartmouth College (AB, 1979) and Columbia Law School (JD, 1982). He clerked for the Honorable Carl McGowan, United States Court of Appeals DC Circuit (1982-1983), the Honorable Lewis F Powell, Jr of the United States Supreme Court (1983-84) and the Honorable Howard M Holtzmann, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (1984-1985).