News 09 Apr. 2024
Curtis Announces New Partners and Counsels Across Offices in Spring 2024
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News 25 Jan. 2024
Counsel Mohannad A. El Murtadi Suleiman Addresses “Africanization” of International Investment Law
Event 18 Aug. 2023
Partner Borzu Sabahi Speaks at FDI Moot Shenzhen
News 25 Jul. 2023
Partner Eric Gilioli Ranked in Top 10 Influential Energy & Natural Resources Lawyers in Kazakhstan in Business Today
Client Alert 28 Dec. 2023
U.S. to Impose Secondary Sanctions on Non-U.S. Banks For Financing Russia’s Defense Industry
News 28 Aug. 2024
Curtis Recognized for Excellence in Arbitration in Chambers Latin America Guide 2025
Event 22 Aug. 2023
Partner Dr. Claudia Frutos-Peterson to Speak at Arbitration and ADR Commission of the ICC Mexico
News 15 Aug. 2023
Legal Reader Publishes Article on Dr. Majed Alotaibi’s Arrival as Senior Counsel in Curtis’ Riyadh Office
News 31 Jul. 2023
Curtis Welcomes Senior Saudi Advisor, Dr. Majed Alotaibi, to its Riyadh Office
News 24 Aug. 2023
Curtis Attorneys Quoted in CoinDesk on FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Strategy Ahead of His Criminal Trial
Client Alert 10 Jul. 2024
EU Adopts New Restrictive Measures Against Belarus
Client Alert 26 Jun. 2024
The EU Adopts its 14th Sanctions Package Against Russia
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Legal 500 UK Recognizes Curtis Practices and Attorneys in 2025 Edition
Curtis Attorneys Featured in IBA Insolvency and Arbitration Working Group’s New Reports
Curtis’ corporate clients benefit from the firm’s unrivaled expertise in international human rights law to protect their brand value, avoid reputational harm, and prevent operational disruption. We give sophisticated advice on compliance obligations and best practices in corporate governance, alongside practical, commercial advice on the human rights aspects of international operations, including supply chains and economic sanctions.
Multinational corporations and other business organizations bear rights and responsibilities under international human rights law. The past ten years have seen an exponential increase in cases brought against corporate actors across Europe, North America and Asia alleging violations of international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law or complicity in such violations.
Curtis’ Business and Human Rights practice group helps companies align their governance and conduct with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), and other international legal instruments including the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct, the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy. Curtis guides its corporate clients to identify, prevent and remedy actual and potential human rights abuses that may arise from their business operations.
The team offers advice to corporations on developing and implementing effective grievance and remediation mechanisms within existing internal investigation policies and procedures. Our team members have broad experience in conducting internal investigations on behalf of corporate clients. Should matters proceed to litigation, our clients also benefit from a market leading disputes practice. Our team includes leading attorneys, academics, and thought leaders in the fields of international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law.
Curtis attorneys are thought leaders who have published extensively in leading journals of public international and human rights law as well as instructors and professors at leading international law academic institutions. They have trained judges, prosecutors, investigators and military officers on international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law in jurisdictions around the world, and they have designed bespoke workshops on such topics for companies, international NGOs, the UN and other international organizations.
With our extensive experience in public international law and human rights law, coupled with our corporate law capabilities, Curtis can help corporations and other business organizations navigate the burgeoning field of international human rights law.
Our team includes former human rights officers and legal officers of the United Nations, legal advisors to permanent missions to the United Nations in New York, prosecutors and defense counsels in national courts and international tribunals and commissions, members of the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and former attorneys of the United States Departments of State and Defense, the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Iran-US Claims Tribunal in The Hague. A number of Curtis attorneys hold experience as military officers, where they have advised commanders on international humanitarian law and litigated high-profile war crimes cases, both at the trial and appellate levels.
Curtis attorneys have won extensive recognition and accolades for their groundbreaking work in international human rights law, including by Corporate Counsel Middle East, The American Lawyer, the Managing Partners’ Forum and the International Financial Law Review (IFLR).
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Event 27 Sep. 2024
Columbia Law and EDS Invite Partner Juan Perla to Speak on LGBTQ+ Rights and Religious Liberty
Event 26 Sep. 2024
Curtis Hosts Reception on the Occasion of IBA Annual Conference 2024 in Mexico City
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