Eric Schwartz

Practice Areas

In 2016 Eric Schwartz retired as a partner in the international arbitration group of King & Spalding and now practises independently as an arbitrator and as an arbitrator member of Fountain Court Chambers in London. He is a former secretary general (1992–1996), court member (2006–2012) and vice president (2012–2015) of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He has also served as a vice-chair of the ICC institute of world business law.

Over the course of four decades of legal practice, Eric has acted as counsel and as an arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings in all the principal European arbitration venues, as well as in Africa, Asia and North America. He has particular expertise in relation to disputes concerning large infrastructure projects as well as investment treaties and complex cross-border transactions in the energy, IP or IT and pharmaceutical sectors.

Although Eric is especially well known for his ICC arbitration experience, he has also acted in arbitrations under the rules of the American Arbitration Association, CIETAC, the European Development Fund, the ICDR, the Netherlands Arbitration Institute, the LCIA, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the Vienna International Arbitration Centre, in addition to ICSID and UNCITRAL. He has experience of disputes under a variety of legal systems, including those of France, England, Switzerland, the United States and multiple jurisdictions across the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Eric is the author of dozens of articles on international arbitration practice as well as the co-author (with Yves Derains) of A Guide to the ICC Rules of Arbitration (Kluwer, 2nd ed, 2005) and the editor of several other books, including (with B Hanotiau) Multiparty Arbitration (ICC 2010) and Class and Group Actions in Arbitration (ICC 2016).

Eric was educated at Dartmouth College (BA 1973) and Yale University (JD 1976) and is a member of the California Bar and an emeritus member of the Paris Bar. He is fluent in English and French.