Law360 named Covington an International Arbitration Practice Group of the Year, and the accompanying profile included commentary from
Marney Cheek,
Jeremy Wilson, and
Miguel Lopez Forastier about Covington’s expertise in the international arbitration space.
Marney told Law360, “We tend to handle high-stakes international arbitration for a lot of the firm's major clients, and the firm sees our international arbitration practice as a complement to our robust litigation offering,” she said.
Jeremy said that Covington's international arbitration group is unique because of the firm's willingness to staff matters across offices and practice groups and that adding this gives it the ability to take on cases that require specialized expertise.
"For example, where we have IP issues, we work and collaborate with our patent colleagues who are patent litigators," he said. "We're able to staff matters that will have a mix of arbitration lawyers and other specialists from the firm, and we've seen that that has really helped us achieve our successes on behalf of clients. I think that is testimony to the culture and the way the firm is set up."
Miguel highlighted what motivates the work of Covington’s international arbitration practice, pointing to when the firm achieved a significant result in July for the Clooney Foundation for Justice when an Argentine prosecutor ordered a criminal probe in a case against Venezuelan security forces following the execution of two civilians participating in a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2014.
"The story of these families is heartbreaking," Miguel said. "These were law-abiding people, regular people, who were doing nothing wrong but to just protest against the government ... it is the kind of case that when you get into the facts, you cannot help but feel a strong desire to right a huge wrong."
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