Andrew leads the firm’s international arbitration practice. Throughout his career, Andrew has lived and worked in North Asia and Southeast Asia, the UK and Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and North America. Prior to joining Rousseau Mazzuca, Andrew was a partner in several international law firms based in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America. During that time, he also was a university law professor (including international commercial arbitration/ mediation courses), as well as Founding Director of the International Islamic Law & Finance Centre in Singapore Management University. Andrew previously has experience leading cross-border commercial transactions and US litigation involving business and investment interests. His practice at Rousseau Mazzuca is solely in international commercial arbitration.  Currently an active member of the Colorado Bar, he also passed the Bar examinations and practiced before the U.S. Federal and State Courts in Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia, and he is admitted and has appeared before the United States Supreme Court.

Andrew has significant international experience as an arbitrator and advocate in arbitrations under diverse arbitration Tribunals and Centers, including primarily the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration (ICC-Paris and Hong Kong); the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC); the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC); the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC); and the American Arbitration Association (AAA/ICDR). He is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators; was a consultant to the Asian International Arbitration Centre for development of its Islamic Arbitration Rules; and he was formerly an Adjudicator in Singapore’s Financial Industry Disputes Resolution Centre (FIDReC). Andrew was previously appointed to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC-Paris) Task Force on Financial Institutions and International Arbitration. He also was trained and certified as a court-appointed mediator more than 30 years ago.

Andrew has authored textbooks by Oxford University Press, Wiley & Sons (Wiley Finance Series), and McGraw-Hill. He was previously the Managing Editor, Asia Pacific Mediation Journal. He was a co-author of the leading North American treatise and digest of construction and design law.

His experience and expertise as an arbitrator (frequently presiding chairman) and as an advocate includes:

• scheduling claims: acceleration/prolongation/delay

• scope of work change orders/increased material and labor costs

• design defects

• differing/unforeseen site conditions, esp. geology, soil, hydrology

RECENT INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATIONS:

• Representing the prime contractor in a Singapore-seated arbitration (SIAC) of claims arising from construction of a multi-billion dollar, nearly 5km² shipyard and marine facilities in Saudi Arabia

• Representing the investors/owners in a Dubai-seated arbitration (DIAC) arising from design engineering and construction of a high-capacity steel casting foundry in Saudi Arabia

• Representing a Korean energy provider in a London-seated arbitration (LCIA) regarding wrongful cancellation of a supply contract for Russian steam coal to be burned in Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion (CFBC) boilers in Korea

• Representing a Korean engineering and construction company in a Singapore-seated arbitration (SIAC) involving the design and construction of highly sensitive security and military intelligence facilities on a US military base in Korea

• Representing a Korean engineering and construction company in a AAA/ICDR cross-border arbitration and mediation of a mixed-use hotel/retail project in Kazakhstan

• Representing a Korean technology company in a Singapore-seated Intellectual Property/Licensing dispute with a US tech company

PREVIOUS MATTERS OUTSIDE OF ARBITRATION:

• Representing a Korean Government-owned enterprise in negotiating oil & gas rights under a production sharing agreement with an Indonesian State Enterprise

• Representing a Middle Eastern military technology company regarding a joint venture and the exporting and importing of intellectual property rights

• Acting for a French aerospace company in structuring and operating its related companies in North America

• Structuring and negotiation of extensive aerospace, energy, and other sales and distribution agreements for technology companies in North America, Europe and Asia

• Cross-border and cross-cultural business advising, including consultation to a US-based international biotechnology company in negotiating and structuring investment facilities in Asia and the Middle East

• Managing defense with Korea criminal counsel of a UK-based MNC in the investigation and prosecution of its local branch manager for criminal unfair trade activities

• Defending a Korean financial institution in US federal court litigation and a related appeal concerning a securities sale

• Managing defense with US criminal counsel in investigation of Korean conglomerate by US Department of Justice

• Pursuing US federal court litigation on behalf of a Korean financial institution against US entities

• Advising Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and related investors regarding US commercial real estate assets

• Advising a large Southeast Asian insurance and takaful company on Shariah compliance and conducted a contract certainty audit of its facultative reinsurance/re-takaful arrangements

• Advising an Australian global fund manager on creating a Shariah-based musharakah joint venture with a large Middle Eastern Islamic financial institution

• Advising owners and conducted a framework review on Islamic murabahah funding for development/construction of high-profile office development in Central London (UK)

• Consultation to Bank Negara Malaysia (Central Bank of Malaysia) with respect to establishment of a financial ombudsman

• Advising the Re-Takaful Committee of the Malaysia Takaful Association on development of contract templates for takaful (Islamic insurance-equivalent) industry members

• Advising the Sindh High Court in Karachi (Pakistan) with respect to proposed mediation bill

• Organization and operation of US limited liability companies, corporations and partnerships

• Negotiation, assistance and advice to US local governments in construction and procurement matters

• Coordination of economic development activities by governmental and nongovernmental organizations (including banks) seeking to further trade activities between Western and Central European countries and the US

• Advising German contractors in connection with construction and environmental remediation projects on US military bases in Europe, including international litigation

• Advising German contractors regarding US Government procurement and contracting, including FAR, DFAR, and other US Governmental regulations

• Representing the provisional government of Bosnia Herzegovina, the Ministry of Trade (under Power of Attorney), and industry consortium in post-war reconstruction commercial matters arising from implementation of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (the 1995 Dayton Accords)

 *Not admitted to the bar of Ontario