 Committee
Members Eric
Ordway
Mr. Ordway is a leading member of Weil, Gotshal & Manges's International
Arbitration group with extensive experience in international litigation
and arbitration, products liability, mass tort and complex litigation. He
has been involved in all aspects of litigation and arbitration, including
hearings, jury trials and appeals.
The subject matter of the actions in which Mr. Ordway has been involved is
extremely diverse, including matters relating to nuclear power, the oil
industry, electrical equipment, PCBs, asbestos, lysine, construction,
mining, real estate, tax, accounting, banking and the Internet. Mr. Ordway
also has extensive experience in antitrust and bankruptcy, having been
responsible for the litigation of all claims in one of the largest real
estate bankruptcies of the 1990’s. In addition, he has supervised internal
investigations concerning environmental spills, cosmetic products and
pharmaceuticals, and coordinated litigations across the country concerning
the same product.
Mr. Ordway has handled international arbitrations before various arbitral
institutions, including the International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”), the
American Arbitration Association, the Arbitration Court of the Hungarian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the International Arbitration Centre
of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, as well as investor-state
arbitrations under UNCITRAL rules. He was also consulted with respect to
the development of the arbitration provisions of NAFTA and frequently
advises clients on the proper drafting of arbitration agreements. He
currently serves on the European Advisory Committee of the CPR Institute
for Dispute Resolution and is a member of the Club Espagnol D’ Arbitrage.
He previously served on an ICC Task Force on the arbitration of antitrust
disputes and was a former Chairman of the Subcommittee on International
Litigation for the Trial Practice Committee of the American Bar
Association.
Mr. Ordway has written extensively on international arbitration and other
forms of alternate dispute resolution, and is a co-author of a chapter on
alternate dispute resolution in The Corporate Counselor’s Deskbook
and a biannual column on international arbitration in the United States in
the French law journal Gazette du Palais. He has also been a
frequent speaker on international arbitration and has lectured on this
subject in the US, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Mr. Ordway was
recognized as a leader in International Arbitration by Chambers Global
2006 and 2007, The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business and by
Chambers USA 2005 and 2006 America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He
was ranked as “Highly Recommended” in the 2004/05 edition of the PLC
Global Counsel Dispute Resolution Handbook, and he was recognized in
PLC Which Lawyers? Yearbook 2006-2007.
Mr. Ordway speaks French and Spanish, and has a good knowledge of
Portuguese and Italian.
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