Alexander Leventhal

Background

About Alexander Leventhal

I am a Partner in Quinn Emanuel’s Paris office and a dispute resolution expert who knows how to achieve clients’ objectives. I have extensive expertise in international commercial arbitration spanning multiple sectors, including the hospitality, telecommunications, entertainment, financial, and other sectors. However, my practice focuses in large part on the energy sector where I have represented clients upstream and downstream in all manner of dispute. I currently serve on the steering committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Young Members Group as well as the Continental Europe Chair for Young ITA, an arbitration think tank with a focus on the energy sector. I also act as Energy Committee Secretary of the Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) and sat on a committee that amended CPR’s Fast Track Rules. I am also known for his expertise in investment arbitration. I helped lead a team that obtained an order from an ICSID tribunal, which, for the first time, ordered the suspension of extradition proceedings in a third-party State. I am recognized as a young thought-leader in the world of investment arbitration and guided a team that prepared a submission to UNCITRAL Working Group on behalf of the European Federation for International Law and Arbitration (EFILA). I have received a number of awards and distinctions for my experience in international arbitration (including his ranking as a Future Leader in international arbitration by Who’s Who Legal), but my experience also extends beyond the world of international arbitration. I have handled numerous multi-jurisdictional disputes and serves on the IBA’s Mediation Committee. I am also a founding member of the Rising Arbitrators Initiative, an organization that provides support for arbitration practitioners receiving their first nominations as arbitrator.