Jones Day

The ‘extremely smart and diligent team’ at Jones Day is commended for its ’tremendous expertise and deep bench’, acting on large-scale, multi-jurisdictional disputes in all leading arbitral centres. Members of the team represent investors and States in complex treaty cases, in the energy, mining, tech, and pharma sectors. The practice frequently acts on politically sensitive cases brought under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties. Based in Washington, Melissa Gorsline is ‘terrific’, and acts on cutting-edge investor-State arbitrations, with a focus on public international law and treaty-based arbitration. In San Francisco, Steven Smith focuses on complex disputes in the energy, infrastructure, and biotech fields, while New York-based Stephen Pearson is dual-qualified, and ’an absolute star’. Jeremy Cole operates out of Chicago, representing clients before the ICC, ICDR, and AAA, while in New York, Fahad Habib acts on complex investor-state arbitrations under NAFTA.