Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a leading international law firm. With over 2,500 lawyers in 27 offices around the world, it providse a comprehensive worldwide service to national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments.

The firm’s international arbitration group has over 100 specialists based in 14 offices across Europe, Asia and the US. Freshfields’ arbitration group includes some of the world’s leading and best-known practitioners and arbitrators, who hold high-profile positions in the major arbitration institutions and professional associations and whose publications cover the field. The international arbitration group has an unrivalled treaty arbitration practice and is currently involved in some 20 cases under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties all over the world, including Latin America, eastern Europe, Russia and the Middle East. Some of the group’s recent successes include obtaining the first merits award for an investor in respect of losses suffered in Argentina’s recent economic crisis, winning a landmark victory for an investment bank against a state, and working on the first group of cases to be arbitrated under the Energy Charter Treaty.

Freshfields’ international arbitration group is consistently ranked as the number one international arbitration practice by many leading legal directories, including the Legal 500, Chambers Global and Global Counsel 3000.