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Provided by Nigel Blackaby KC

Latin America

Practice Areas

International Arbitration; Investor-State Arbitration; Energy; Natural Resources; Manufacturing; Agriculture and Food Distribution; Aviation; Telecommunications.

Career

Nigel Blackaby KC is a Washington, DC based partner, global Co-head of Freshfields' international arbitration group and Co-head of the Latin America group. Cited by clients as an “undisputed leader in his field”, Nigel is a civil and common law trained lawyer who has acted as counsel and arbitrator in more than 100 ad hoc and institutional arbitrations, both commercial and investor-state in English, Spanish and French with a focus on natural resources and Latin America.

Nigel is widely recognized as a leading authority in international arbitration. He is recognized as a Global Elite Thought Leaders – and one of the US’s most prominent arbitration practitioners – by Who’s Who Legal. In January 2020, Nigel was honored with the appointment of King’s Counsel, for his excellence in advocacy.

Nigel is a member of the Court of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, a board member of the Centro de Arbitraje de Mexico and of the international commission of the Centro Internacional de Arbitraje de Madrid. He is co-author of Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration (fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh editions, Oxford University Press) and Guide to ICSID Arbitration (first and second editions, Kluwer). Nigel serves as an adjunct professor of investment arbitration at American University Washington College of Law.

He speaks English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

For more information, visit https://www.freshfields.us/contacts/find-a-lawyer/b/blackaby-nigel/

Professional Memberships

Member of the Court of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre; Board member of the Centro de Arbitraje de Mexico and of the international commission of the Centro Internacional de Arbitraje de Madrid.

Publications

Nigel is the co-author of the leading texts "Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration" (fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh editions, Oxford University Press), "A Guide to ICSID Arbitration" (first and second editions, Kluwer) , and "International Arbitration in Latin America" (Kluwer, 2003).

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