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Litigation Risk Management Series: Minimizing Litigation Risks in International Commercial Agreements


Product Code - LGAU02
Speaker(s): Joseph R. Profaizer, Paul Hastings LLP; Charles A. Patrizia, Paul Hastings LLP
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Every company with international agreements or operations is exposed to the risk that their contractual relationships will produce a significant dispute in a foreign country. Companies that prepare for a potential dispute with an international counter-party well before one emerges are better positioned to more efficiently and effectively resolve the dispute once it occurs.

Educational Objectives:

• Drafting contractual dispute resolution provisions: International arbitration and foreign court clauses

• Negotiating agreements with foreign governments and their instrumentalities

• Utilizing protections contained in bilateral investment treaties and investment chapters of free trade agreements

Those who may benefit from attending this program are corporate counsel, government contractors, securities and corporate, and white collar and criminal practitioners.

Joseph R. Profaizer, Paul Hastings LLP; Charles A. Patrizia, Paul Hastings LLP

Joseph R. Profaizer / Paul Hastings LLP
Mr. Profaizer maintains a litigation and arbitration practice that focuses on complex international disputes. He has represented public and private corporations as well as foreign sovereigns and their instrumentalities in a variety of complex multi-jurisdictional disputes, including insurance, investment, commercial, construction, energy, employment, e-commerce, pharmaceutical, securities, and technology disputes. He has served as lead counsel and counsel in threatened or actual litigation or arbitration in over 40 countries. Mr. Profaizer has successfully represented clients in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels, as well as in all aspects of arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, the AAA/ICDR, the LCIA, JAMS and UNCITRAL.

Mr. Profaizer has also led internal investigations on behalf of corporations in the United States and Europe, including those faced with criminal and civil investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mr. Profaizer earned an L.L.M. from the London School of Economics (with merit). He earned a J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin (magna cum laude, Special Honors, Dean’s Distinguished Graduate).

Charles A. Patrizia / Paul Hastings LLP
Mr. Patrizia has over 30 years of experience in regulatory and trial proceedings, with a concentration in complex matters and matters relating to project development and construction, energy and the environment, and regulation of chemicals and pharmaceuticals. He has an active counseling and litigation practice in project construction, energy and environment, as well as counseling corporations and boards on compliance matters and governance issues in relation to policies and requirements of regulatory agencies. Mr. Patrizia has actively represented a variety of clients on contracting issues, including litigation or arbitration of construction issues, trading issues and supply agreements.

Before joining Paul Hastings LLP, Mr. Patrizia was executive assistant and legal advisor to Ambassador-at-Large Richard Fairbanks, and was assigned responsibilities relating to non-nuclear energy issues, contingency planning for the Persian Gulf region, and long-term U.S. strategy toward the Pacific Basin.

Mr. Patrizia earned an A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of North Carolina and a J.D. from Yale Law School. While at Yale, he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and winner of the John Currier Gallagher Prize.