News 24 Jun. 2021
Curtis successfully defends foreign states' procedural privileges in the UK Supreme Court
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News 23 Jun. 2021
Ibrahim Elsadig joins Curtis as Partner in Dubai
Client Alert 24 Feb. 2022
EU, UK, Japan and Australia Impose Sanctions on Russia
News 09 Aug. 2021
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle enters into association with Chevalier Law in Singapore.
News 06 May. 2022
Curtis Advises Terna Group on the Sale of its Latin America Power Transmission Assets to CDPQ
Publications 05 May. 2022
Marie-Claire Argac, Simon Batifort, and Cyprien Mathié share highlights from “Affaires d’Etats: Practical Considerations When Defending States in International Arbitration” on Kluwer Arbitration Blog
Event 26 Apr. 2022
Claudia Frutos-Peterson Speaks at CAI Costa Rica’s 13th Congress of International Arbitration
News 21 Apr. 2022
SCOTUS Upholds U.S. Colonialism under the U.S. Constitution
Client Alert 23 Mar. 2022
The Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) has launched the DIAC Arbitration Rules 2022
Event 22 Nov. 2021
Partner Antonia Birt spoke at ADGMAC and AIAC Webinar Series: Webinar 5 - Disputes in Fintech and Complex Technology in MESEA
News 19 May. 2022
Eliot Lauer’s and Juan Perla’s Tenth Circuit Arguments Featured on Audio Arguendo Podcast
News 16 May. 2022
Curtis Files SCOTUS Amicus Brief for Ohio Justice & Policy Center in Prisoners’ Rights Case
Client Alert 21 Apr. 2022
New Laws Targeting Assets of Russian Oligarchs: The U.S. Announces Task Force KleptoCapture and the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Program
Client Alert 19 Apr. 2022
U.S. President Biden Expands Export Controls Imposed on Russia and Belarus
Client Alert 24 Jun. 2021
Update on Virtual Notarization (Executive Order 202.7) During the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Pandemic (Updated: June 24, 2021) — U.S. Insight
Update on Virtual Witnessing (New York Executive Order 202.14) During The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Pandemic (Updated: June 24, 2021) — U.S. Insight
Curtis is active throughout Asia and the Asia-Pacific region. The firm operates out of two offices in Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan and Almaty. It opened its doors in Beijing in 2014 to better serve clients operating or located in China, as well as in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Curtis offers services in Singapore through its association with Chevalier Law, an independent Singaporean law firm, announced in 2021.
Our multi-office international arbitration team represents clients in matters ranging from complex multiparty, multijurisdictional disputes to mid-sized commercial arbitrations and mediations. The practice has represented numerous Asian states and state-owned entities in investor-state arbitrations, as well as private companies in international commercial arbitrations.
Curtis' International Trade lawyers have four decades of experience representing Asian clients on trade matters, and are highly regarded as a top-ranked trade practice by leading legal directories such as Chambers & Partners. The practice operates primarily out of its offices in Washington, D.C., Beijing and Geneva, and includes multilingual lawyers and analysts who are fluent in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Curtis’ attorneys have developed significant experience serving as lead advisers to both private companies and state-owned entities on several of the largest and best-known infrastructure development and public projects in Central Asia. Clients operating in the region include project sponsors, investors, lenders, developers and government agencies engaged in oil and gas and tourism development and hotel projects.
The firm’s investment management lawyers in Kazakhstan, Europe and the United States offer decades of experience developing tailored solutions for the alternative investment community. The team has extensive experience establishing and advising funds in Central Asia, and serves a range of clients including sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, fund managers and their sponsors and principals, and other investors.
Ranked Tier 1 in Kazakhstan Dispute Resolution and Kazakhstan Energy and Natural Resources
Almaty
+7 727 311 1187
Beijing
+86 10 8564 6200
Nur-Sultan
+7 717 255 0150
Askar N. Moukhitdinov
Partner
Ron Xie
International Trade
International Arbitration
Investment Management
Construction
Energy (Oil & Gas)
Infrastructure Development
Mining and Minerals
state and state-owned clients in the region
rankings in Chambers Asia Pacific and Chambers Global for our work in the region
languages spoken by our Asia-based attorneys
The team’s ability to grasp the primary issues and principles of a dispute, however obscure and complex, is exemplary.
Legal 500: EMEA 2022 Kazakhstan Dispute Resolution
Highly professional lawyers. The team has excellent knowledge and knows the specifics of the petroleum sector.
Legal 500: EMEA 2022 Kazakhstan Energy and Natural Resources
Among the few top law firms representing foreign producer and importer interests in trade regulatory cases.
Chambers Global 2021 Asia-Pacific Region International Trade/WTO
Can always get the real point of our concerns and provide valuable suggestions to address them successfully.
Chambers Global 2021 Asia-Pacific Region - International Trade/WTO
"[A] facility for dealing with complex technical and commercial aspects of international arbitration"
Legal 500 EMEA 2021: Kazakhstan Dispute Resolution
Curtis 'advises the Ministry of Energy on a wide range of issues in the oil and gas sector'.
Legal 500 EMEA 2021 - Kazakhstan Energy and Natural Resources
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