Jeffrey M. Hertzfeld

Jeffrey Hertzfeld, one of the founding partners of the firm, is a retired senior partner of the Paris office who currently acts as an independent international arbitrator.

With over 35 years of international law practice in Paris and New York, Jeffrey Hertzfeld has had broad experience in international trade, investment, natural resources and construction disputes with particular focus in Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Central and Eastern Europe.

He has served as an international arbitrator in numerous cases, under institutional rules such as those of the ICC, Stockholm Arbitration Institute, LCIA, AAA, and ad hoc rules such as UNCITRAL, and has sat in many arbitration venues including Stockholm, Paris, London and New York. He has also acted as counsel in many arbitrations and worked as a consultant on matters relating to international arbitration law and practice.

Jeffrey Hertzfeld has been a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars on international arbitration matters organized by the ICC, LCIA, the Stockholm Arbitration Institute and the Swedish Arbitration Association notably in Paris, Moscow, Stockholm and elsewhere.

He is the author of numerous publications on East-West trade and investment. He has contributed articles on international arbitration to the ICSID (World Bank) Journal, the Stockholm Arbitration Institute Yearbook, the ICC Journal and the Stockholm Arbitration Report.

Career:

• Admitted to the Paris Bar in 1992
• Admitted to practice in France as Conseil juridique in 1972
• Admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 1978
• Admitted to the New York bar in 1969
• Admitted to the Delaware bar in 1966
• Law Clerk at the Delaware Supreme Court (1966-1967)
• Teaching Fellow at the Law Faculty, University of Leiden (1967-1968)
• Member of the European Arbitration Group of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris
• Member of the Panel of the International Arbitration Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan
• Member of the Panel of the Russian Federation Court of International Commercial Arbitration
• Member of the Board of the Swedish Arbitration Association
• Member of the Panel of Energy Dispute Arbitrators on the AAA ICDR Roster
• Member of the ASA, the LCIA and the IAI
• Member of the editorial board of the Russian journal "International Commercial Arbitration" published under the auspices of the Russian Federation International Commercial Arbitration Court
• Former Chairman of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC) to the OECD Task Force on the CIS
• Former Member of the International Chamber of Commerce Advisory Group on the CIS and Economies in Transition

Education:

• University of Pennsylvania (BA, 1963)
• Harvard Law School (JD, 1966)

Languages:

• English
• French
• Russian