Grant Hanessian serves as co-chair of Baker & McKenzie's International Arbitration Practice Group and chair of the Litigation/Dispute Resolution department of the Firm's New York office. Mr. Hanessian is a member of the Commission on Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce and the ICC Task Force on Arbitration Involving States or State Entities. He is editor of the ICDR Yearbook 2011 (Juris Pub., 2011) and co-editor of Comparison of International Arbitration Rules (American Bar Association Section of International Law, 2011),  International Arbitration Checklists (Juris Pub., 2nd ed., 2008) and Gulf War Claims Reporter (ILI/Kluwer, 1998). Mr. Hanessian is recommended by the Chambers USA Guide and Legal 500 in the field of international arbitration.

Practice Focus

Mr. Hanessian has more than 25 years experience serving as counsel and arbitrator in disputes concerning contract, energy, construction, commodities, financial services, insurance, intellectual property and other matters.

Representative Legal Matters

• Representing investors and governments in arbitrations concerning claims under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.
• Representing Petrobras in New York arbitrations concerning design and construction of two off-shore floating production, storage and offloading vessels and claims concerning acquisition of power plant in Brazil.
• Representing numerous construction and oil services companies in claims against Iran before the Iran-US Claims Tribunal.
• Representing a US subsidiary of a French company in arbitrations and domestic court actions in US concerning EPC contracts for ethanol projects.
• Representing a Taiwanese railway company in a Singapore arbitration regarding a contract to provide trains for high-speed railway in Taiwan.
• Representing Asian government in an arbitration and domestic court actions regarding contractual disputes relating to bond offering.
• Representing Egypt in a dispute regarding workers remittances from Iraq before the United Nations Compensation Commission.

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Society of International Law
• American Bar Association
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• International Chamber of Commerce
• American Arbitration Association
• London Court of International Arbitration

Admission

New York~United States (1986)

Education

Columbia University  (LL.M.) (1985)
New York University  (J.D.) (1980)
University of Pennsylvania  (B.A.) (1975)