25 January 2022 - Podcast
Robert Kovacs
Special Counsel
Robert is special counsel in the litigation and arbitration team.
Dr Robert Kovacs specialises in public international law, international arbitration and business and human rights. He has represented individuals, companies, States, and State-owned entities in international disputes across a range of sectors, including energy, mining, construction, banking, mergers and acquisitions, sport, property and technology. He has a focus on Europe, Asia-Pacific and MENA.
Robert holds a PhD in international law, is the former Co-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Forum for International Arbitration and is a senior fellow at the Melbourne University Law School.
Esperienza
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Representing a Chinese company in an ad hoc investor treaty arbitration against an African State
Representing the Republic of Croatia in multiple ICSID arbitrations brought by Austrian companies concerning the banking sector
Representing a Dutch company in an ICSID arbitration against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela relating to the expropriation of a manufacturing facility
Victoria, Australia, 2008
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Transnational Regulation and Dispute Resolution, Withers and British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2021, co-author.
UAE in J. Fouret (ed.), Enforcement of Investment Treaty Arbitration Awards (Globe Law and Business, 2015), co-author.
The Law is What the Arbitrator Had for Breakfast: How Income, Reputation, Justice, and Reprimand Act as Determinants of Arbitrator Behaviour, in J.C. Betancourt (ed.), Selected Topics in International Arbitration – Liber Amicorum for the 100th Anniversary of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Oxford University Press, 2015), co-author.
Young ICCA
Asia-Pacific Forum for International Arbitration
International Insolvency Institute
Law Institute of Victoria
Il mio profilo in un minuto
I specialise in international arbitration, public international law and business and human rights.
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- English
Date
Con lo studio dal
2019
