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Leading International Arbitration and Trade Lawyer Joins King & Spalding
| Source: King & Spalding
WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - June 4, 2008) - King & Spalding, a leading international law
firm, announced today that Kenneth B. Reisenfeld, a top litigator with
three decades of experience in international commercial and investment
arbitration and in foreign trade compliance and enforcement investigations,
has joined its Washington, D.C., office as a partner.
"Ken brings to our firm a truly exceptional background and recognition as a
world-wide expert in international arbitration and international trade
compliance," said Edward G. Kehoe, co-head of the firm's international
arbitration practice. "We expect Ken to play a leadership role in building
these growing practices in our Washington office, and globally."
Doak Bishop, co-head of the firm's international arbitration practice,
said, "I have known Ken for decades and have admired his international
reputation and client following based upon his stellar skills and
collaborative, teamwork approach. We are thrilled that Ken has joined our
firm."
Reisenfeld comes to King & Spalding from Haynes and Boone, LLP, where he
was the founding partner of its Washington, D.C., office and chair of its
international arbitration and litigation practice group and its
international compliance and trade practice group. At King & Spalding, he
is teaming up with lawyers of similar stature who have a global reputation
for excellent legal counsel. These include the firm's latest arrivals to
its international arbitration practice: Houston-based, high-profile
litigators John Bowman and Jennifer Price, formerly with Fulbright &
Jaworski, L.L.P., and Washington, D.C.-based Margrete Stevens, former
acting lead counsel of the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement
of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
Reisenfeld represents leading U.S. and foreign corporations and
governmental entities in litigation and arbitration of international
commercial, investment, energy, M&A and technology disputes in U.S. courts
and before international arbitral tribunals throughout the world, including
the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
(ICSID), International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration, the London
Court of International Arbitration, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal,
the Dutch Arbitration Institute, and in state-to-state ad hoc proceedings.
He also represents significant U.S. and foreign multinational corporations
in the technology, energy, defense and manufacturing sectors in export
controls, economic sanctions, antiboycott, and Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act compliance investigations and enforcement actions and in Exon-Florio
national security investment reviews.
Wick Sollers, managing partner of King & Spalding's Washington office,
observed, "Ken satisfies our strategic goal of continuing to add depth to
our successful international arbitration and trade compliance practices in
Washington, D.C."
Reisenfeld, a former chair of the American Bar Association Section of
International Law, now serves as a councilor on the International Bar
Association's governing body. He also is an appointed member of the U.S.
Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law and the
Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and serves on
the panel rosters for a number of international arbitral institutions.
Reisenfeld has been recognized in Chambers, Euromoney's Guide to the
World's Leading Experts and International Who's Who.
Reisenfeld earned a B.A. degree from Oberlin College, honors, and a J.D.
degree from Harvard Law School. Prior to entering private practice, he was
a judicial law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Frank J. Battisti and
served in the Attorney General's office of the U.S. Department of Justice.
King & Spalding has one of the leading international arbitration practices
in the world. American Lawyer's Focus Europe survey in June 2007 ranked
King & Spalding first in the world in investment treaty arbitrations and
second in the number of high-stakes international arbitrations. The firm's
lawyers have represented major U.S. and foreign companies as well as
foreign state-owned companies in arbitrated disputes ranging from one
million dollars to more than one billion dollars.
The firm's trade practice, composed of more than 40 lawyers and
consultants, is one of the largest in the world. King & Spalding's trade
group advises clients on a wide range of international trade matters,
including trade remedies, World Trade Organization (WTO) matters, export
controls, sanctions, customs, inward U.S. investment (Exon-Florio/CFIUS),
and trade policy and negotiations. In addition to the largest anti-dumping
case ever brought against China, the group was also the first in 15 years
to successfully file a countervailing duty petition in the United States
against subsidized imports from China.
About King & Spalding
King & Spalding is an international law firm with more than 800 lawyers in
Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Dubai, Frankfurt, Houston, London,
New York, Riyadh (affiliated office), San Francisco, Silicon Valley and
Washington, D.C. The firm represents half of the Fortune 100 and in a
Corporate Counsel survey in September 2007 was among the top firms
representing Fortune 250 companies. For additional information, visit
www.kslaw.com.