With the breadth of expertise and resources within our Litigation Department and across the firm, we can quickly and efficiently deploy experienced teams of lawyers throughout the world. Our international matters have taken our litigators to such locations as China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, the U.K., Germany, Italy, Pakistan, Russia, Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela, and many other jurisdictions.

• We represent a major European bank in connection with ongoing investigations by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and U.S. Department of Justice regarding the processing of U.S. dollar payments on behalf of entities and countries subject to U.S. economic sanctions administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
• We represented Ford in an international arbitration with FIAT, the Italian automobile manufacturer, regarding Ford’s sale of its tractor and farm businesses to FIAT.
• We represented Citicorp in an arbitration proceeding concerning the prepayment to Citibank Mexico by the Instituto para la Protección al Ahorro Bancario, a government agency that oversees the Mexican banking system, of a promissory note in favor of Confia, S.A., a pension fund administrator in El Salvador.
• We represented Repsol YPF, the Spanish/Argentine oil company, in an internal investigation concerning its writedown of oil and gas reserves.
• We represented J.R. McDermott, a Texas-based oil and gas company, in litigation brought by Maritime Industrial Services, an oil company based in the United Arab Emirates, arising out of the company’s merger with Offshore Pipeline, a Texas-based oil company. This matter also involved an arbitration before the International Court of Arbitration in London.
• We represented Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro, an Italian bank, in connection with investigations and litigation arising out of the financial problems of Parmalat.