INTRODUCTION Contributed by: Gary Born and Matteo Angelini, WilmerHale
WilmerHale has a global team of 500 litigators and controversy specialists who handle highly complex and sensitive matters in all aspects of litigation. The practice is geographically and substantively diverse – with 11 offices in the USA, Europe and Asia – and its lawyers appear in many types of proceedings with various pre- trial, trial and appellate objectives. The firm has played an integral role in some of the most sig- nificant recent cases in the US Supreme Court and other US courts, the ECJ, the English courts
(including the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court) and German national courts. Its experience covers a wide range of industry sectors, including finance, software, IT, manu- facturing, oil and gas, and aviation. The broad litigation practice is divided into several more specific practice areas: appellate and Supreme Court litigation, business trial group, govern- ment and regulatory litigation, IP litigation, inter- national arbitration, international litigation, and white-collar defence and investigations.
Contributing Editors
Gary Born is chair of the international arbitration group at WilmerHale, and also advises on the litigation of international disputes in US courts. He has particular experience in
Matteo Angelini is a counsel at WilmerHale. He focuses on international arbitration and English High Court litigation, and
has experience of arbitrations under a variety of institutional rules (including the ICC, LCIA, SIAC and UNCITRAL rules) involving both common law and civil law disputes. He has particular experience in oil and gas, technology, M&A and joint venture disputes, and regularly advises government and private sector clients on international law issues. Matteo is qualified as a barrister in England and Wales, and is a graduate of St Catherine’s College, Oxford University.
jurisdiction, enforcement of judgments, conflict of laws and international judicial co-operation, and also serves as an expert witness on aspects of US private international law in foreign proceedings. Gary has served as counsel in more than 675 arbitrations, and has sat as arbitrator in more than 250 institutional and ad hoc arbitrations. He is a pre-eminent authority in the field, renowned as the author of International Commercial Arbitration (3rd ed 2021 Kluwer International), International Arbitration: Law and Practice (3rd ed 2021), International Civil Litigation in U.S. Courts (6th ed 2018) and a number of other works.
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