States and State-Owned Entities
Construction
International Investments
Business Combinations
Other Experience

• Representation of a state oil company in an ICC arbitration involving an alleged long-term contract for the supply of an oil product to a major power company.
• Representation of a Latin American government in an ICSID arbitration against an international oil company involving oil production.
• Lead counsel in an arbitration brought by a privately owned company against a tank terminal operator. The dispute involved claims for damages resulting from the shutdown of the client's plant due to a fire on the respondent's premises. An award in favor of Curtis's client was rendered by the Arbitral Tribunal.
• Counsel to an oil company regarding claims arising under an exploration and production sharing agreement, conducted in Paris under the ICC Rules.
• Counsel to a state-owned oil company regarding claims against a private oil company arising under an exploration and production sharing agreement, conducted in Paris under the ICC Rules.
• Counsel to a national oil company regarding an arbitration in Paris involving claims under oil concessions and related agreements, conducted under the ICC Rules.
• Counsel regarding an arbitration in Paris under the ICC Rules in a dispute involving the termination of a sales agency contract concerning water treatment in China.
• Counsel to a private party regarding an arbitration in Paris under the ICC Rules concerning a mining contract.
• Counsel to a major trading company in an AAA arbitration regarding the right to the output of a copper mine controlled by Metallgesellschaft.
• Counsel to a major Mexican environmental service corporation in an ICC arbitration in New York in which the purchaser of the business is attempting to rescind the $30 million acquisition.
• Counsel to a private party in connection with an arbitration in Paris under the ICC Rules concerning an African mining contract.
• Counsel regarding an ICC arbitration in Paris involving an agricultural project including disputes regarding civil works.
• Counsel to a state-owned agricultural agency regarding an arbitration with a private consortium conducted in Paris under the ICC Rules concerning large-scale irrigation projects.
• Counsel to an African state regarding an arbitration against a foreign state-controlled entity conducted in Paris under the ICC Rules concerning a large-scale agricultural project.
• Counsel regarding a dispute with a foreign state-controlled entity in an ICC arbitration concerning a large-scale agricultural project.

Partners & Counsel
The following partners and counsel practice in this area:

• Nancy E. Delaney (New York)
• George Kahale III (New York)
• T. Barry Kingham (New York)
• Eliot Lauer (New York)
• Joseph D. Pizzurro (New York)
• Benard V. Preziosi, Jr. (New York)
• Miguel Estrada Sámano (Mexico City)
• Javier Jiménez (Mexico City)
• Geoffroy Lyonnet (Paris)
• Peter M. Wolrich (Paris)