Klaus Reichert SC

One of the world\"s most prominent international arbitrators.

Experience

Klaus Reichert SC specializes in international arbitration with substantial experience in dealing with international disputes across a broad spectrum of complex subject matters, industries and governing laws (both common law and civil law) involving sovereigns and commercial parties from all over the World. He has particular experience as an arbitrator arising from cases administered by ICSID, ICC, LCIA, ICDR and the PCA. He has sat in arbitrations on three-member tribunals on multiple occasions in Paris, London, New York, Geneva, The Hague, Singapore and Washington DC. He has a significant focus on commercial cases located in the United States and is one of the few non-Americans admitted as a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators (USA). He is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and was an arbitrator with the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal for many years. He is Vice-Chair of the Executive of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration (Dallas). He was called to the Inner Bar of Ireland (Senior Counsel) in 2010 having been involved as counsel in a large number of leading cases in the field of private international law before the Irish Courts. During the Academic Year 2023-24 he was the Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law. In 2020 he was designated by the Government of Ireland to the ICSID panel of conciliators.

Work History

In full-time practice as a barrister since 1992.

Cases

He has served as chair, party-appointee or sole arbitrator in more than 250 international disputes, often with very high monetary claims, particularly in arbitrations pursuant to ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL (via the PCA), LCIA and ICDR Rules. His experience of handling emergency arbitrator procedures includes conducting such cases under the auspices of the ICC, ICDR, SCC and LCIA. In his work to date as an international arbitrator he has completed or is currently sitting in cases involving 24 sovereign states from all parts of the World, and has had multiple appointments under the Energy Charter Treaty.

License(s)

Bar of England & Wales

Education

1990 BCL, University College, Dublin 1992 Barrister-at-Law Degree, King’s Inns, Dublin 2004 Post Graduate Diploma, International Commercial Arbitration, Queen Mary, University of London

Publications

Co-author (with Don Vinson) of \"Arbitration - the Art & Science of Persuasion\", Oxford, 2022

Panels

He is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and on the ICDR international panel.