Bernhard Maier

Commercial Arbitration, Investor-State Arbitration; Public international law advisory

Bernhard is Counsel at Signature Litigation specialising in commercial and investment treaty arbitration, with a particular focus on the natural resources, mining and technology industries. He also represents clients in contentious and non-contentious public international law matters and sits as an arbitrator.

Bernhard is a member of the UK Attorney General’s C Panel of Public International Law Counsel to the Crown and a Professor at King’s College London. Bernhard is regularly invited to speak at leading industry conferences such as the Financial Times’ inaugural Cyber Resilience Summit.

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.

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 wins for the governments of Barbados, Kenya and Slovakia in three separate high-profile investment treaty arbitrations and settling a nearly US$50m dispute for a client in the cloud computing business.

University of Southampton; UCL.