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Mark WIlliam Friedman

Address: 

Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP
919 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
U.S.A.

Phone Number: 
+1 212 909 6034
Fax Number: 
+1 212 909 6836
Email: 
mwfriedman@debevoise.com
Born: 
1966, Massachusetts
Languages: 
English
Nationalities: 
USA
Education: 
University of Massachusetts - Amherst, 1988 BA., Social Thought and Political Economy, summa cum laude
Yale University, J.D. 1991
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
New York, 1992
Massachusetts, 1992
Present Position: 
Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Professional Experience: 

Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton; Law Clerk, Hon. Charles P. Sifton, USDJ

Professional Associations: 

International Bar Association – Arbitration Committee (Past Co-Chair); International Dispute Resolution Committee of the International Section of the American Bar Association (Vice-Chair); International Law Association – Commercial Arbitration Committee (Co-Rapporteur).

Arbitration Experience: 

Sole arbitrator, ICC arbitration concerning commissions and termination of agency. Party-appointed arbitrator UNCITRAL arbitration concerning loan agreement.

Areas of Specialization: 
Commercial Disputes
Criminal Law
Investment Contracts
Investment Treaty
Joint Ventures
Shareholder Disputes
Criminal and Regulatory Investigations
Publications from JURIS: 
Fair and Equitable Treatment Issues In Oil & Gas Investment-Treaty Arbitration - Chapter 05 - Leading Practitioners’ Guide to International Oil & Gas Arbitration
Can State Counterclaims Salvage Investment Arbitration - WAMR 2014 Vol. 8, No. 2
Pleadings, Memorials and Post-Hearing Briefs - Chapter 9 - The Art of Advocacy in International Arbitration - 2nd Edition
Publications: 

“Choosing The Arbitration You Want: Possibilities And Pitfalls in Arbitration Agreements,” Financier Worldwide, July 2011

“Regulating Judgment: A Comment on the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' Guidelines on the Interviewing of Prospective Arbitrators,” Dispute Resolution International, September 2008

“Current Trends in US and International Arbitration,” Arbitration Review of the Americas, a Global Arbitration Review Special Report, 2008

“Related Dispute Resolution Regimes: Parallel Proceedings in BIT Arbitration,” August 2006, ICCA publication – Forthcoming

“Is it Summary Judgment Time?,” Global Arbitration Review, 2006

“Drafting and Enforcement of Arbitration Clauses in the United States and England,” November 15, 2004, in Transatlantic Commercial Litigation and Arbitration (Fellas, ed.)

“Developments in International Commercial Dispute Resolution in 2003,” The International Lawyer, July 1, 2004

Co-author of “Arbitrating Over BIT Claims,” The National Law Journal, 2003

“Reducing Central and Eastern Country Risk Through Knowledge of Bilateral Investment Treaty Rights,” International Bar Association, September 2003

Co-author of “The Development of Investor Protection Law Through Arbitration,” Who’s Who Legal, An Extra from the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, August 2003