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Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
Clients are quick to highlight Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP for its ‘considerable in-house expertise in petroleum, mining, and related industries; it can marshal a quite remarkable team of oil-industry experts’. The practice is led by George Kahale III in New York (who is ‘not only an outstanding international arbitration lawyer, but also has a great ability to deal with very different people in very different environments, and is especially good at building team spirit’), and its policy of representing only states and state-owned entities in international arbitration disputes ‘translates into a very consistent approach: something that is very important when the client is engaged in multiple proceedings’. The firm has represented Venezuela and its national oil company, PDVSA, in 20 arbitrations in recent years, including acting for the government in proceedings against ConocoPhillips concerning three petroleum exploration-and-development projects in Venezuela, involving claims of expropriation and violation of fair and equitable treatment obligations under the Netherlands/Venezuela BIT. It is also representing Venezuela and PDVSA in parallel ICSID and ICC arbitrations initiated by subsidiaries of Mobil Corporation seeking damages in relation to fiscal measures taken by the government between 2004 and 2007 and the restructuring of joint ventures in Venezuela’s petroleum sector; the team acting includes Kahale, Benard Preziosi, Miriam Harwood – all based in New York – and Gabriela Alvarez-Avila and Eloy Barbar de Parres in Mexico City.
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