Leading Boutique International Arbitration Law Firm
Aceris Law is a leading boutique international arbitration law firm. It provides the highest-quality legal representation for complex international commercial arbitrations, investor-State arbitrations and international construction disputes, combining an outstanding track record with reasonable legal fees. Its services are comparable in quality to those of the top global law firms when handling complex, high-stakes disputes, yet it maintains the nimbleness, commitment, and adaptability characteristic of a specialised boutique practice. It covers all jurisdictions, arbitral institutions and industry sectors, working in diverse languages for clients throughout the globe.
Aceris Law ensures:
- Excellence in legal analysis
- Insight into winning case strategies and arguments
- Mastery of all procedural techniques used in international arbitration and mediation
- Award-winning arbitration legal representation of the highest quality before diverse arbitral tribunals
- Fierce and uncompromising representation of our clients’ interests
While also offering:
- The best value available for the highest-quality arbitration legal representation
- A proven track record for large and complex arbitrations, facing the world’s largest firms
- A trial period for new clients to test the excellence of our work
- Multilingual legal teams
- Constant accessibility by clients from all jurisdictions (in person and by videoconference)
About Us
Award-Winning Arbitration Lawyers
Global Arbitration Legal Representation
Outstanding Track Record
With Harvard-, Columbia- and Sorbonne-educated lawyers admitted to bars of Western Europe, North America, Eastern Europe and South America, and over two decades of experience focusing on international arbitration law and procedure at the highest level, as well as international mediation and the enforcement of arbitral awards, Aceris Law provides the highest-quality legal representation for complex international commercial arbitrations, international construction arbitrations and investor-State arbitrations, combining excellence, rigour, experience and an outstanding track record with unbeatable value for high-quality international arbitration legal representation.
Award-Winning
Lawyers
Aceris Law’s award-winning lawyers are recommended by the Legal 500 and in many other prestigious rankings in the field of international arbitration. They have provided legal representation in over two hundred commercial, investment and construction arbitrations, for clients including businesses of all sizes, foreign investors and State entities, in arbitrations with their seats in Europe, North America, Central America, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. They have provided legal representation for ICC, ICSID, LCIA, ICDR, SIAC, SCC, DIAC, HKIAC, JAMS, AAA, LMAA, CICA, PCA, OHADA and ad hoc (often UNCITRAL) arbitrations, as well as under the rules of lesser-known institutions, establishing an outstanding track record.
Nearly All Laws
Aceris Law provides arbitration legal representation under nearly all laws. It has previously provided legal representation in arbitrations under English law, French law, Swiss law, multiple American laws, various Australian laws, various Canadian laws, Spanish law, Singapore law, Hong Kong law, Saudi Arabian law, UAE law, Kuwaiti law, Brazilian law, Russian law, Serbian law, the laws of Bosnian and Herzegovina, Georgian law, Turkish law, Mexican law, German law, Japanese law, Uzbek law, Turkish law, Angolan law, OHADA law, the laws of Côte d’Ivoire, South African law, Malaysian law, Moldovan law, Albanian law, Argentine law, Romanian law, Kenyan law, Liberian law, Nigerian law, Swedish law, South Korean law, Tunisian law, Moroccan law, Mauritanian law, Hungarian law, public international law, and the laws of many other common law and civil law jurisdictions.
Diverse Languages
The working languages of Aceris are English and French, although our arbitration lawyers also speak Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, Greek, Serbo-Croat, Czech and Slovak. Aceris Law also regularly serves as legal counsel in cases with Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Indonesian, Polish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Thai, Polish, Romanian and other linguistic elements. When additional language capacity is needed for a given dispute, Aceris Law typically acquires it over the duration of the international dispute. Aceris Law also maintains access to competent but cost-effective translators, who may be used to translate documents into the language of the arbitration proceedings. While all our lawyers speak fluent English and French, they are all also polyglots.
Respect for Clients and Co-Counsel
Aceris Law works closely with its clients and their in-house counsel, allowing them to play as significant a role in the resolution of their dispute as they desire and providing them with full and transparent feedback. It also collaborates with co-counsel throughout the world, maintaining access to skilled local counsel in most jurisdictions for arbitration-related domestic court proceedings.
Public International
Law
Aceris Law also provides legal representation for public international law disputes. It currently provides pro bono legal representation to the former British protectorate of Barotseland with respect to a treaty dispute with the Republic of Zambia. Aceris Law’s lawyers have also provided legal advice on proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and frequently serve as legal counsel for States and State entities.
