HFW's principal strength is its experience and expertise in international litigation, arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution. We have specialist dispute resolution teams in all our offices worldwide, regularly handling high-value, complex, multi-party, multi-jurisdictional disputes.

Our dispute resolution practice includes:

• International Arbitration
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Banking and Financial
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Litigation
• Fraud & Asset Recovery

We are also market leaders in dispute resolution in all other areas of the firm's practice, including:

• Aviation
• Commodities
• Competition and Regulation
• Construction, Engineering & Infrastructure
• Employment
• Insurance & Reinsurance
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• Shipping
• Shipbuilding and offshore construction

We represent clients in the English Courts, particularly in the Commercial Court, the Chancery Division, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. We also act for clients in the courts of other countries, including Hong Kong, France and Australia and offshore jurisdictions, and before the General Court and the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, the European Court of Human Rights, the World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement Body, the International Labour Organisation Administrative Tribunal and the United Nations Dispute Tribunal.

What we do Experience

Our experience extends across the full spectrum of dispute resolution, including international arbitration, alternative dispute resolution, banking & financial litigation, commercial litigation, corporate litigation, fraud & asset recovery. We provide below some examples of cases in which our lawyers have been involved:

• Acting for the operator of an oilfield concession offshore in Qatar in relation to ongoing disputes arising during the execution of its 2005 field development plan involving investment of over US$3bn.
• Acting for the owners of an oilseed crushing plant in Eastern Europe in relation to their multi-million dollar dispute with the company engaged to design the plant.
• Acting for a major hotel group in arbitration proceedings against their insurer in respect of property damage and business interaction losses of around US$30m arising out of the December 2004 Tsunami.
• Advising on a series of disputes with a major grain trading company in LCIA arbitration. The matter related to the sale of assets in relation to a grain terminal in the FSU. The claims exceeded US$200m.
• Acting for joint venture partners in a dispute involving a claim in excess of £100m in respect of the joint project. This involved detailed consideration of issues of corporate responsibility and conflict on the part of the directors in the joint venture company.
• Acting for the PRC before the World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement Body in defending a complaint that Chinese intellectual property laws breach TRIPS Agreement.
• Acting in a reference to the European Court of Justice from the Austrian courts arising from the grant by Austrian authorities of a licence to demonstrate on an inter-state motorway.

What we do Experience

HFW's principal strength is its experience and expertise in international litigation, arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution. We have specialist dispute resolution teams in all our offices worldwide, regularly handling high-value, complex, multi-party, multi-jurisdictional disputes.

Our dispute resolution practice includes:

• International Arbitration
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Banking and Financial
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Litigation
• Fraud & Asset Recovery

We are also market leaders in dispute resolution in all other areas of the firm's practice, including:

• Aviation
• Commodities
• Competition and Regulation
• Construction, Engineering & Infrastructure
• Employment
• Insurance & Reinsurance
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• Shipping

We represent clients in the English Courts, particularly in the Commercial Court, the Chancery Division, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. We also act for clients in the courts of other countries, including Hong Kong, France and Australia and offshore jurisdictions, and before the General Court and the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, the European Court of Human Rights, the World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement Body, the International Labour Organisation Administrative Tribunal and the United Nations Dispute Tribunal.