International Dispute Resolution
As business expands abroad, so does the likelihood that international business disputes will occur. Any international business strategy must therefore include plan for preventing disputes and, in the case an actual disputes arises, how to get it resolved efficiently and effectively.
GH&R’s team of international dispute resolution lawyers have many years of experience with business disputes involving overseas parties. To meet the expanding needs of our clients involved in international business, over the past 15 years the firm has undertaken to develop the unique capacity for local law firms to represent clients in international or cross-boarder business disputes. This capacity has allowed us to represent successfully clients in numerous litigations against overseas parties in U.S. state and federal courts and, with the cooperation with foreign lawyers, in litigations in foreign courts as well. More recently, we have also represented both U.S. and foreign clients in major dispute international arbitrations and mediations in the U.S. and abroad administered by the Court of International Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre in Hong Kong. Additionally, we are currently representing a claimant in an international arbitration governed by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITAL) Arbitration Rules.
As is the case with all of its commercial dispute resolution services, our representation of clients involved in international business disputes is guided by our strong philosophy that in each case, no matter how large or how small, it is essential to develop a strategy early on to get the dispute resolved in a business driven, cost effective manner that is focused on the clients’ needs. GH&R lawyers have also been recognized as experts in the field of international commercial arbitration and mediation and have been invited to participate in advanced mediation workshops in Europe and as speakers at international litigation and arbitrations conferences in Salzburg, Austria, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Niagara on the Lake, Ontario and at the 2005 American Bar Association Annual Meeting in Chicago.
The firm is also a member of the International Business Law Consortium which is based in Salzburg, Austria, and is affiliated with the Center for International Legal Studies. The Consortium has approximately 85 member firms located in most of the principal commercial nations of the world. The firm’s lawyers are active in the Consortium and attend regularly its partners’ meetings that are held semi-annually. Membership and participating the Consortium’s programs give the firm the facility to refer matters as needed to well-qualified overseas lawyers with confidence to solve the client’s needs for foreign counsel.
Experience
- Represented U.S. parties in domestic litigation against overseas parties.
- Represented foreign parties in U.S. litigation.
- Represented, with local foreign lawyers, U.S. parties in overseas litigation in Argentina, Belgium, Cabo Verde, Canada, China, Cyprus, England, France, Portugal, Tunisia and Turkey.
- Represented U.S. and overseas parties in international arbitrations and mediations, including, most recently, a enforcement of technology license agreement against a Korean multi-national corporation and defending against a contraction claim on a project in Hong Kong.
- Conducted discovery in U.S. litigations overseas under the Hague Evidence Conventions and under Letters Rogatory.
- Enforced foreign judgments in U.S. courts.
- Enforced U.S. judgments in overseas courts.