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Lisa Richman

Lisa Richman

USA 2026

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Practice Areas

Lisa M. Richman focuses her practice on international dispute resolution matters, with a particular emphasis on international commercial arbitration and public international law.

She has experience representing clients in a broad range of matters, including in the areas of international commercial and investment arbitrations, securities enforcement, securities litigation, general commercial litigation disputes and insurance coverage.

Lisa’s clients have included investors, governments, corporations, corporate officers and directors, and individuals in disputes seated in common law and civil law jurisdictions worldwide. Her work has included disputes conducted under ICC, ICSID, ICSID AF, AAA/ICDR, SIAC, HKIAC, JAMS, DIS, LCIA, CPR, Swiss Rules and UNCITRAL Rules as well as pure ad-hoc arbitrations. She has handled disputes in a wide variety of industries with a particular focus on disputes relating to energy, oil and gas, intellectual property, pharmaceutical, infrastructure, licensing, securities, telecommunications, joint ventures and construction.

Lisa also has represented corporations, corporate officers and directors, and individuals in international and domestic arbitrations and litigations in the US and around the world. Complementing her dispute resolution expertise, Lisa has managed internal investigations worldwide and has helped a variety of companies to resolve government investigations, including World Bank Sanctions proceedings. Lisa is listed on the arbitrator list of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), in the LCIA’s database of neutrals and is a member of the SIAC Users Counsel, the ITA Americas Committee and the DIS Rules Revision Committee. She is a native German speaker, and also speaks Spanish and French.

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Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the USA

International Arbitration: Counsel - USA - Nationwide

Band 5
Band 5

Individual Editorial
Lisa Richman regularly represents a broad of range of clients in commercial arbitral proceedings.

Strengths

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  • Lisa is amazing and a true pleasure to work with.

    International Arbitration: CounselChambers Guide to the USA
  • She's very articulate and absolutely ruthless as a cross-examiner - absolutely brutal, but she doesn't do it in a mean way. She's very polite and incredibly courteous, but all of a sudden their intestines are hanging out by their feet and they don't realize!

    International Arbitration: CounselChambers Guide to the USA

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