Deborah H Ruff

Practice Areas

International Arbitration; Litigation; Real Estate & Construction

Career

Deborah Ruff leads Pillsbury’s Arbitration - U.S. & International practice. She has extensive experience in multijurisdictional disputes, with a focus on high-value and complex international arbitration in the energy, infrastructure and construction, telecommunications and financial sectors.

Ms. Ruff conducts international arbitration disputes often over JOAs, the construction of and off-take from refineries and petrochemical plants, as well as rig, energy trading and transport, and coal and nuclear power plant disputes. She also regularly represents clients in other infrastructure, shareholder and financial disputes. Ms. Ruff conducts arbitrations under the rules of all of the major institutions and rules including the LCIA, the ICC, DIAC, the Swiss, Stockholm, Hong Kong and UNCITRAL Rules. She has also represented both investors and states in BIT and ICSID cases.