Caline Mouawad is a Partner in King & Spalding’s International Arbitration Group, residing in the New York office. Ms. Mouawad concentrates her practice on international arbitration. Her experience includes arbitrations involving claims and disputes in Europe, the CIS, Latin America, North Africa, and the Middle East, relating to public and private international law issues, bilateral investment treaties, breach of contract, financial transactions, and privatization agreements. Ms. Mouawad is involved in complex arbitrations in a variety of sectors including oil and gas, energy, telecommunications, and mining. She has represented clients in cases before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the American Arbitration Association (AAA), and the International Commercial Arbitration Court of the Russian Chamber of Commerce (ICAC), as well as in ad hoc cases under the UNCITRAL Rules. In the 2010 edition of The Global Arbitration Review 100, she was named a “lawyer to know.” She was “recommended” by Legal 500: Latin America 2012.
Publications
- “Who Decides? The Tug-Of-War Between U.S. Courts and Arbitrators: A Commentary On Republic of Iraq v. BNP Paribas USA,” in Jalal El Ahdab (ed.), International Journal of Arab Arbitration Vol. 4 No. 3 (2012), 112-28 (co-author)
- “The DynCorp Case: The Journey of an International Arbitration Award,” in Jalal El Ahdab (ed.), International Journal of Arab Arbitration Vol. 3 No. 3 (2011), 25-54 (co-author)
- “Breaking New Ground: Interim Measures in International Arbitrations Involving Petroleum Investments,” in Lex Petrolea: The International Energy Arbitration Newsletter (K&S), Inaugural Issue (4Q 2011) (co-author)
- “Modern and Competitive: The New CRCICA Rules,” in Jalal El Ahdab (ed.), International Journal of Arab Arbitration Vol. 3 No. 1 (2011), 17-24 (co-author)
- “Observations on Final Arbitral Award rendered in 2003 in SCC case 49/2002” (revised and updated), in Stephen Bond and Linn Bergman (eds.), SCC Arbitral Awards 2004-2009 (Juris 2011), 195-202 (co-author)
- “The Meaning of ‘Investment’ in the ICSID Convention,” in Pieter Bekker, Rudolf Dolzer, and Michael Waibel (eds.), Making Transnational Law Work in the Global Economy: Essays in Honor of Detlev Vagts (CUP 2010), 326-356 (co-author)
- “So You Want to Start an Investment Treaty Arbitration? Getting the Notice of Dispute Right,” in Albert Jan van den Berg (ed.), Years of the New York Convention: ICCA International Arbitration Conference, ICCA Congress Series, 2009 Dublin Volume 14 (Kluwer Law Int'l 2009), 178-186, (co-author)
- “Issue Conflicts in Investment Treaty Arbitration,” 5 Transnat’l Disp. Mgmt. 4 (July 2008)
- “Tokios Tokeles: Home is Where Control Is?” ADR & The Law (21st ed., AAA) (Juris 2007), 259-281 (co-author)
- Observations on Final Arbitral Award rendered in 2003 in SCC case 49/2002, Stockholm Arbitration Report 2004:1 (Juris 2004), 168-175 (co-author)
