Clayton Utz is one of Australia's leading national law firms and a leading practice in the Asia-Pacific region. Established in 1833, the firm has over 210 partners and more than 1,600 legal and support staff nationally. We have offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Canberra and Darwin and maintain strong links with legal firms across the globe through membership of the Lex Mundi and Pacific Rim Advisory Council (PRAC) networks.

Clayton Utz is a full-service firm organised under four core departments: corporate; banking and financial services; property, environment and construction; and litigation and dispute resolution. Within these departments, the firm has specific industry practice groups which focus on the needs of individual sectors of commerce and industry, as well as specific areas of legal practice. These practice groups include construction; property, planning and environment; competition (antitrust) law; corporate law; equity finance; corporate advisory and mergers and acquisitions; privatisation and corporatisation; taxation; project finance; retail banking and e-commerce; structured capital markets; structured and property finance; superannuation and funds management; insurance; intellectual property; information technology; workplace relations and employment law; product liability; insolvency; government services; and commercial litigation and arbitration.

Our clients include federal and state government departments and agencies and many blue chip, high profile public companies, including many of Australia's top 100 companies. We undertake high quality, strategically important work and have been a key player in many of Australia's largest and most complex projects.

The international arbitration group at Clayton Utz is one of the leading practices in the Asia-Pacific region. The team is known for its world-class international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution practitioners, Doug Jones, Michael Pryles and Andrew Rogers, who are well known throughout the international arbitration community. We have advised and represented clients in major international transactions, projects and disputes throughout the world under all of the major arbitration rules and regimes.

Clayton Utz is committed to the development and study of international arbitration and international dispute resolution in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. In association with the University of Sydney, Clayton Utz holds an annual International Arbitration Lecture, with previous presenters including Lord Mustill, Fali Nariman, Rusty Park, Arthur Marriott QC and Karl-Heinz Boeckstiegel.

For further information on Clayton Utz's international arbitration practice, please visit www.claytonutz.com and follow the links to international commercial arbitration. For further information on the International Arbitration Lecture, please visit www.ialecture.com.