Lucy is co-head of our global international arbitration group. A specialist in international commercial arbitration and particularly in investment treaty disputes, she advises private and public clients and serves as arbitrator in arbitrations under the AAA, ICC, ICSID, LCIA, UNCITRAL and other rules. Lucy was an arbitrator on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, and served as a co-director of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland (the Holocaust tribunal). She chairs the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and will serve on the LCIA Court as of January 2011. She is co-author of the Guide to ICSID Arbitration and The Freshfields Guide to Arbitration and ADR (both published by Kluwer) and a frequent writer and speaker on international arbitration.

Lucy is the sole attorney nationwide to be named a "star individual" international arbitration practitioner by Chambers USA (2010), and is one of 12 Leading Lawyers in international arbitration in Legal 500 United States (2010).

Lucy served as President of the American Society of International Law from 2008 to 2010, and delivered lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2001. She was the first general counsel of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization and, while with the US State Department, the US agent to the Iran-US Claims Tribunal and the deputy assistant legal adviser for international claims and investment disputes.

Her recent experience includes advising:

  • ConocoPhillips in its multi-billion dollar ICSID case against Venezuela following confiscation of its investments;
  • the government of Turkey in three multi-billion dollar ICSID arbitrations brought under the Energy Charter Treaty by allegedly Cypriot and Polish investors in Turkish power generation projects;
  • an Asian government entity in ICC arbitrations involving breaches of a share purchase agreement in the insurance sector;
  • CMS Energy Gas Transmission in obtaining the landmark first ICSID awards on jurisdiction and merits in the bilateral investment treaty arbitrations filed against Argentina in the wake of recent economic measures; and
  • various clients in political risk insurance/guarantee arbitrations and claims.

Lucy received her BA magna cum laude from Brown University in 1974 and her JD from the University of Chicago Law School in 1977, where she was a member of the Law Review.

Contact details

lucy.reed@freshfields.com

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