Klaus Reichert SC

Klaus Reichert SC is a Senior Counsel at the Irish Bar. He has served as arbitrator and counsel in over one hundred international cases in many jurisdictions under the LCIA, ICC, ICDR, UNCITRAL, LCIA-DIFC, ICSID and other rules in investment treaty and commercial matters. He is a member of several international bodies including the ITA Board of Reporters, the ILA International Arbitration Committee and the LCIA European Users' Council. He served as co-chair of the IBA Litigation Committee in 2008-2009 and is currently participating in the Experts' Group for the Hague Conference on Private International Law project for the development of principles for choice of law in international contracts. He was a member of the Experts' Group appointed by the European Commission in 2010 to assist with the revisions to the Brussels Regulation vis a vis arbitration. He has acted counsel before the Irish Courts on numerous cases concerning complex commercial and private international law issues since 1992. He has also appeared in the English Courts in relation to one of the landmark cases on the New York Convention, Dallah v Pakistan. He was the chair of the Host Committee for ICCA 2008 in Dublin marking the exact 50th Anniversary of the New York Convention.