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Patrick M. Norton

Address: 

Steptoe & Johnson, LLP
99 Gresham Street
London EC2V 7NG
UK

Phone Number: 
44 (020) 7367 8091
Fax Number: 
44 (020) 7367 8001
Email: 
pnorton@steptoe.com
Born: 
1947 US
Languages: 
French German Mandarin
Nationalities: 
USA
Education: 
Univ. of PA: BA 1969; Oxon: BPhil 1972; Harvard LS: JD 1975
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
DC 1975
Present Position: 
Attorney; Partner
Professional Experience: 

Steptoe & Johnson, Partner, 2007–present; Managing Partner, Beijing office, O’Melveny & Myers 2002–05; Partner, Shanghai office, O’Melveny & Myers 1999–2002; Partner, Alston & Bird, Atlanta/Washington, DC 1989–1999; Assistant Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, 1983–89; Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 1977–78

Panels of Arbitrators: 

USCIB (ICC); HKIAC; ICDR; Malaysian Centre for International Arbitration

Arbitration Experience: 

As arbitrator: Chair, ICC arbitration between Korean and European companies, 2009–10: investment dispute; Sole arbitrator, ICC arbitration, Beijing China, 2004: investment dispute; Sole arbitrator, ICC arbitration, Shanghai China, 2003: investment dispute; Party-appointed arbitrator, three-arbitrator tribunal, UNCITRAL Rules; Washington, DC 1999– 2001:dispute arising out of commissions from sale of Kazakh oil fields; Partyappointed arbitrator, three-arbitrator tribunal, ICC Rules, Stockholm, 1997–99: dispute over technology licenses in U.S. company’s investment in China Chair, three-arbitrator tribunal, AAA Rules, Atlanta, GA 1994–95: contract dispute over supply of armored personnel carriers from U.S. to S. American government; As counsel: approximately 25 cases under ICC, ICDR, UNCITRAL, CIETAC, LCIA, HKIAC, and SIAC Rules, all contractual 1980–2008; State Dept. attorney in charge of 130 cases between U.S. and Iranian Governments, with aggregate claims of US $30 billion, before Iran-US Claims Tribunal: 1983–84

Areas of Specialization: 
International Arbitration
International Litigation
International Trade
Mergers & Acquisitions
Investment Contracts
Publications from JURIS: 
Use of Precedents in Investment Treaty Arbitration Awards - ARIA - Vol. 25, No. 2 2014
Publications: 

 

‘Anti-Corruption Risks: Complyiing with the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,’ in Cutshaw, Burke & Wagner (eds.), Doing Business in China (4th ed. 2012); “Informal Dispute Settlement Approaches,” in M. Moser (ed.), Dueling with Dragons: Managing Business Disputes in Today’s China (London 2006); “Chinese Trade and Investment Disputes: Offshore Options,” in Arbitration in China: A Practical Guide (Hong Kong 2004); coauthor, China Trade Law & Practice (London 2006); co-editor, The International Lawyer’s Deskbook (2d ed. Chicago 2003); “Corruption in China: The FCPA Challenges for U.S. Companies,” China Business Review (2006); “Back to the Future: Expropriation and the Energy Charter Treaty,” in T. Waelde (ed.) The Energy Charter Treaty (London 1996); ‘A Law of the Future or a Law of the Past? Modern Tribunals and the International Law of Expropriation,’ 85 AJIL 474 (1991).