Alexander A Yanos
Partner, Alston & Bird LLP
[email protected]Alexander A Yanos’ arbitration practice includes commercial, financial and treaty-based disputes, particularly in the energy and mining sectors and in Latin America. He obtained a finding of unlawful expropriation in one of the largest investment treaty cases ever filed before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in an arbitration against Venezuela. In another decision against a sovereign state, the US Supreme Court reinstated the award of a British multinational oil and gas company client against Argentina.
Alex has also obtained results for clients in disputes involving governments around the world. He has advocated for his clients before nearly every international arbitration tribunal, including ICSID, International Chamber of Commerce, London Court of International Arbitration, American Arbitration Association, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission, International Court of Justice and Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.