Danielle Morris

Danielle Morris helps clients navigate complex cross-border disputes and investment risks, guiding them through every stage of international arbitration, from early strategy to enforcement. She advises on treaty protections and risk mitigation, enabling clients to avoid, manage, or efficiently resolve high-stakes conflicts involving States and commercial parties.

Danielle advises clients across sectors, including mining, oil and gas, financial services, construction, pharmaceuticals, and automotive. She regularly advises on substantive protections and dispute resolution mechanisms under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, representing both investors and States in investment arbitrations. Danielle has also represented States and State-owned entities, as well as private commercial parties, in high-value contract-based arbitrations under both common and civil governing laws.

From 2008 to 2011, Ms. Morris served as an Attorney-Adviser in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of International Claims and Investment Disputes. She represented the United States in NAFTA arbitrations and in State-to-State arbitrations under the Algiers Accords before the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal.