International Arbitration

Partner

Elliot is a partner in Freshfields' international arbitration practice. He focuses on international arbitration (commercial and investor-state) and international litigation, with a particular focus on disputes in the tech, energy and pharma sectors. Elliot has handled international arbitrations before almost every major arbitral institution, and his experience includes disputes involving long-term energy contracts, bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, joint venture agreements, construction contracts, distribution agreements, and intellectual property. Elliot also represents companies in the US courts in transnational litigation, including the enforcement of arbitral awards.  He has played a leading role in some of the most ground-breaking, landmark arbitration matters in recent history. This includes representing BG Group against Argentina in BG’s success before the US Supreme Court (the first time the Supreme Court has reviewed a Bilateral Investment Treaty award), ConocoPhillips in three mega arbitrations against Venezuela, which recently led to a landmark US$8.5 ICSID award in favor of ConocoPhillips (the largest ICSID award on record), a US$2 billion ICC award, and a US$55 million ICC award.

Elliot was named as one of Who’s Who Legal’s leading arbitration lawyers in 2021.  He was also recently appointed to the Executive Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and to the Executive Committee of the New York International Arbitration Center.

Elliot is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (Australia) and Harvard Law School.