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Washington – November 24, 2021: Six members of Crowell & Moring’s International Dispute Resolutions Group will participate in panels in Washington Arbitration Week 2021, a forum on international arbitration for the Washington, D.C. legal community and the international and foreign community connected to it.  

Washington – November 30, 2020: Three members of Crowell & Moring’s International Dispute Resolutions Group will participate in panels in Washington Arbitration Week 2020, a newly launched forum in international arbitration for the Washington, D.C. legal community and the international and foreign community connected to it.  

Washington – September 2, 2020: Robert Hager, Charbel Maakaron, Michael Guiffré, and Meagan Bachman will be joining Crowell & Moring as partners, a move that will expand the firm’s global infrastructure, international dispute resolution and litigation capabilities. As part of their arrival, the firm plans to launch an office in Doha with an additional team of eight lawyers.

President-elect Donald Trump has proposed to expedite federal approvals and permits for any investments worth more than $1 billion.[1] To date, details of Trump’s current proposed fast-tracking initiative have not been articulated. If put into action, however, infrastructure megaprojects will certainly be among the investments covered by any such initiative, with such fast-tracking potentially enhancing disputes risks before projects commence and throughout the lifecycle of the project.

The global energy crisis together with the ongoing energy transition received top billing for 2022 and, from an international disputes perspective, will continue to dominate in both the short and medium term. In particular, disputes arising from price volatility of raw materials and energy are expected to be the leading cause of disputes, followed by the construction of energy infrastructure (which was the leading cause of disputes in the last five years). International arbitration remains the clear choice for the resolution of energy disputes.

Crowell & Moring held its Transportation & Logistics workshop on Thursday, March 10, 2022 in Dana Point, California. The conference featured key developments and trends in the transportation sector and legal strategies to support supply chain resiliency in the midst of industry uncertainty, evolving regulatory regimes, and unprecedented workforce challenges. Conference participants included transportation leaders and decision-makers across retail, food & beverage, hospitality, telecommunications, healthcare, rail, automotive, aviation, surface, maritime, mobility, shipping, logistics, and beyond. Topics included:

Megaprojects are high stakes, complex projects. Given the tendency toward large, challenging disputes on such projects, strong management strategies are essential for delivering projects successfully. Join us for the third and final episode in our 2024 webinar series "Delivering Megaprojects," hosted by Gleeds in collaboration with Freeths. This session will focus on the management of ultimate disputes in megaprojects, featuring insights from our esteemed panel of international industry experts including Meagan Bachman, Partner at Crowell & Moring.

The World Arbitration Update (WAU) will update the global community on key and novel topics of investment and international commercial arbitration, and public international law in a decentralized forum. The first edition of WAU is being held virtually linking different regions by video conference during a five-day period from 11 to 15 October 2021. During these five days, there will be 15 panels and networking virtual events including:

Please join members of Crowell & Moring’s Infrastructure Team for a webinar that will explore some of the lessons learned through our experience handling major infrastructure disputes.  We will cover issues such as: