Experience

Claudia Salomon has experience as arbitrator and counsel in more than 100 arbitrations.  She has handled arbitrations under common law and civil law, around the globe, administered by a wide variety of arbitral institutions, as well as ad hoc (AAA / ICDR, ICC, ICSID, HKIAC, JAMS, LCIA, PCA, SIAC, UNCITRAL, VIAC).

Her cases span a broad range of industry sectors, including construction, energy and natural resources (oil and gas, hydroelectric, solar, wind farm), financial services, hospitality, life sciences, technology, and telecommunications. She is particularly adept at multi-party, multi-contract claims involving complex financial agreements, post-M&A disputes and intellectual property rights.

Claudia has served as chair, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and emergency arbitrator. She is listed on arbitrator panels of institutions around the world, including the AAA / ICDR Roster (Commercial, International), BVI International Arbitration Center, Inaugural Roster of Arbitrators, CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, FedArb, Distinguished Neutral, HKIAC List of Arbitrators, KCAB International Panel of International Arbitrators, SCCA, Arbitrator Roster, and SIAC Panel of Arbitrators. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Recent arbitrator appointments include:

Chair

  • Chair, 3-member tribunal under the UNCITRAL Rules, concerning an LNG take-or-pay contract between European parties, governed by New York law, seated in New York
  • Chair, 3-member tribunal under the AAA Commercial Arbitration Rules, concerning an indemnification claim under an insurance policy governed by Delaware law, seated in New York
  • Chair, ICDR arbitration, AAA Commercial Arbitration Rules, claims brought under a Global Master Securities Lending and Borrowing Agreement between Filipino and US parties, involving a non-participating respondent, Nevada law, Washington, DC seat
  • President, 3-member tribunal under the ICC Rules, involving a Share Purchase Agreement between US and Dutch parties, New York law, seated in New York,
  • President, 3-member tribunal under the ICC Rules, involving Collaboration Agreement among U.S., Danish and Australian parties, concerning milestone payments in the pharmaceutical sector, New York law, Zurich seat
  • Chair, 3-member tribunal under the ICDR Rules, involving Nicaraguan and Mexican distributorship agreements among Brazilian and Nicaraguan parties, New York law, New York seat
  • Chair, 3-member tribunal under the ICDR Rules, involving a Partnership Agreement among Indian, Swiss, UAE, and US parties, concerning technology and claims of breach of contract and fraudulent inducement, Delaware law, New York seat
  • Chair, 3-member tribunal under the AAA Commercial Arbitration Rules, involving a Share Purchase Agreement among US and Swedish parties, Delaware law, Wilmington seat

Co-Arbitrator

  • Co-arbitrator, 3-member tribunal under the SIAC Rules, between two Indonesian parties, in the mining sector involving $600 million in claims, Indonesian law, Singapore seat
  • Co-arbitrator, 3-member tribunal under the AAA Rules, indemnification claims under a Stock Purchase Agreement New York law, New York seat
  • Co-arbitrator, 3-member tribunal under the LCIA Rules, involving a Cooperation Agreement among Czech, Cypriot and Dutch parties, Czech law, London seat 
  • Co-arbitrator, 3-member tribunal under the ICC Rules, between US and Japanese parties, in the life sciences sector, New York law, Zurich seat
  • Co-arbitrator, 3-member tribunal under the UNCITRAL Rules, administered by the PCA, involving a construction claim against an international organization, involving both the contractor and subcontractor, New York law, New York seat

Sole Arbitrator

  • Sole arbitrator, ICDR arbitration under the AAA Commercial Arbitration Rules and Expedited Procedures, involving LLC Agreements, Operating Agreements and Construction Oversight Agreements between Turkish and US parties for various real estate development projects, New York and Delaware law, New York seat
  • Sole arbitrator under the ICDR Rules, involving an Importing and Marketing Agreement for premium spirits between a French company and US distributor
  • Sole arbitrator under the ICDR Rules, involving a License Agreement, including the valuation of patents between an Italian company and US inventor 
  • Sole arbitrator under the ICDR Rules, involving a License and Joint Marketing Agreement between UK and US parties

Emergency Arbitrator

  • Emergency Arbitrator under the AAA Commercial Arbitration Rules, administered by the ICDR, involving $350 million in claims under various financial instruments and requests for attachment of accounts, Delaware law, New York seat
  • Emergency arbitrator under the ICDR Rules, involving franchise agreements between US and Indian parties, North Carolina law, Charlotte seat

Experience as counsel and arbitrator includes:

Parties from: Africa, Asia, Western and Central / Eastern Europe, Middle East, North and South (Latin) America, Caribbean

Seated in: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Dubai, Geneva, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Mauritius, Mexico City, Miami, Muscat, New York, Paris, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seoul, Singapore, Stockholm, Vienna, Washington, DC, Wilmington, Zurich

Governing law: Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Canada (Ontario, Ottawa), China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, England and Wales, Egypt, France, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, Oman, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, US law (Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Virginia), public international law, and European Union competition law.

Construction: Owners, contractors, sub-contractors; power barge, toll road, container terminal at port (quay wall), manufacturing plant, dam for hydroelectric plant, wind-powered electric generation facility (wind farm), solar plant; subcontractor agreements, turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreements

Energy / natural resources / mining: Multinational energy companies, upstream and downstream, electric utility, hydroelectric, liquefied natural gas (LNG), oil and gas concession, power generation, solar, failure of steam generators, shutdown of nuclear power plant, fertilizer and potash permits; copper mining; transportation and sale of natural gas, intrastate pipeline and option rights, delivery of a rig; Trans-Caucasus oil and gas pipelines

Financial services: Financial agreements, including loans; sale and purchase of bank

Hospitality: Hotels, motels, restaurants, food, franchise

Life sciences: Health care and consumer products, cosmetics (beauty) and skin care products, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, manufacturing supply agreement, clinical trials and collaboration agreement, license and development agreement for drug delivery system for chronic diseases, including disputes over milestone payments and regulatory requirements

Technology: Technology companies, electronics manufacturers, information technology companies, royalties, R&D, license termination, patent infringement and valuation, copyright and trademark claims, strategic alliance agreement, digital management platform, use of confidential / proprietary information, share purchase agreement involving dispute over patent ownership, OEM agreement involving design and construction of computer server systems, cross patent license agreement, licensing agreement, option agreement, supply and funding agreement, supply agreement for computer components

Telecommunications: Telecommunications companies, privatization of telecommunications sector, supply agreement for telecommunications equipment, issuance of GSM mobile licenses, exclusivity and escrow agreements

Post-M&A, joint venture, commercial: Post-M&A purchase price (working capital) disputes, accounting / tax, environmental indemnification claims, asset purchase agreement, cooperation agreement, concession, distribution agreement, franchise agreement, funding agreement, joint venture agreement, lease, marketing agreement, manufacturing agreement, including questions of conformity of products, partnership agreement, purchase option, real estate and development agreement, revenue sharing agreement, securities, share purchase agreement; supply agreement, airlines and aviation engines and parts, charitable (non-profit) organization, premium spirits (gin, cognac), universities and education, commodities (flour, metals), galvanized steel coils, waste management, recycling

Public international law, investment treaties: Investors and states in more than a dozen investment treaty arbitration cases involving supply agreements, corruption scandals, educational issues, tax assessments, mining, oil and gas pipelines, reorganization of a metallurgy plant, concessions, telecom, banking, hospitality; sought and opposed enforcement of investment treaty arbitration awards; represented international organization in claims alleging breaches of public international law and human rights