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138 FETTER LANE
LONDON
EC4A 1BT
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Bernhard Maier
Work Department
International Commercial Arbitration, Investor-State Arbitration, Public International Law Advisory
Position
Bernhard specialises in commercial and investment treaty arbitration, with a particular focus on the technology, energy and extractive industries. He also represents clients in contentious and non-contentious public international law matters and sits as an arbitrator.
Additionally, Bernhard is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London. He is regularly invited to speak at leading industry conferences.
Bernhard has acted for claimant and respondent parties in a wide range of investment treaty and commercial arbitration matters (including under the Energy Charter Treaty and ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, VIAC, ASA, DIS and AAA Rules), as well as related cross-border litigation and enforcement issues.
Recent highlights of Bernhard’s practice include acting for the claimants in a US$250 million shareholders’ dispute pertaining to a leading financial technology (fintech) company in Asia, securing a win for a publicly listed Scandinavian life sciences company in a €300m LCIA arbitration and acting for the claimants in an investment treaty arbitration arising out of an expropriation of a mining investment by a West African State.
Career
Associate, Volterra Fietta, 2011; Associate, DLA Piper, 2016; Senior Associate, Squire Patton Boggs, 2017; Counsel, Signature Litigation, 2021.
Memberships
Member of the UK Attorney General’s C Panel of Public International Law Counsel to the Crown.
Education
University of Southampton; UCL.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Dispute resolution > International arbitration
A ‘go-to disputes law firm’, Signature Litigation LLP
is experienced in an array of international commercial and investment treaty arbitrations. The team also covers investment cases. Ioannis Alexopoulos‘ sector expertise encompasses financial services, energy, and oil and gas, along with shipping, international trade, telecoms, IT and infrastructure. International arbitration specialist Philipp Kurek is a September 2023 hire from Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Neil Newing is ‘a smart and sophisticated lawyer’, and Tsegaye Laurendeau is an Africa expert. The practice further includes Bernhard Maier, who focuses on the natural resources and energy sector, and international commercial and investor-state arbitration practitioner Pietro Grassi.