Practice Areas & Industries: Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

We believe that Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP has one of the world’s preeminent international arbitration practices. The group comprises leading international arbitration, public international law and dispute resolution practitioners. The firm’s well-known industry experience in insurance, energy, telecommunications, construction and other sectors, combined with the group’s dispute resolution experience, provides a unique offering to our clients.

The practice group is composed of more than 50 lawyers in the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia and is led by Arthur Marriott QC in London, Eric Schwartz in Paris, Don Picard in Washington, DC, and John Nonna in New York. Mr. Marriott is one of the principal promoters of the English Arbitration Act and one of England’s leading international arbitration advocates and arbitrators, as well as being a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and a member of the panel of conciliators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Mr. Schwartz, a former Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, presently serves as a member of that Court and is widely-recognized as one of the world’s leading ICC arbitration authorities and practitioners. Mr. Picard formerly served in the US State Department and has more than three decades of experience of representing sovereign states in disputes implicating global investment, trade, boundaries and other matters. John Nonna, a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, has extensive experience trying arbitrations in the insurance and reinsurance industry and is widely recognized as one of the leading practitioners in that field.

Members of the group have been involved in some of the most significant international arbitrations and other proceedings brought to date, including the proceedings between Ethiopia and Eritrea before the ad hoc tribunal adjudicating multibillion dollar claims for losses resulting from the armed conflict between those two countries, the ICC arbitration that resulted in the separation of Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and an arbitration involving the sale of a division of a well-known insurer in which the amount at issue is in excess of $1 billion.