International disputes are increasing dramatically as businesses expand into foreign markets to compete in the global economy. Litigating across national borders is often legally complex and difficult to predict. It requires experience and legal training to coordinate and implement an effective litigation strategy.
CMB has developed the experience and training necessary to handle the unique dimensions of international litigation and effectively represent clients in cross-border disputes, including:
- Coordinating, managing and supervising all aspects of multijurisdictional litigation
- Securing injunctive and other interim relief in the U.S. and in foreign jurisdictions
- Dismissing cases filed in inconvenient or improper forums
- Enforcing foreign judgments and arbitral awards in the U.S.
- Determining the most favorable applicable law and resolving conflicts between the laws of multiple interested jurisdictions
- Obtaining evidence in foreign jurisdictions for use in U.S. forums
- Defending clients involved in multijurisdictional mass tort litigation
- Filing and litigating anti-suit injunctions
- Selecting effective and capable foreign local counsel
- Engaging effective industry and foreign law experts
Global Experience and Focus
International litigation is unrestricted in almost every sense – geographically, legally and linguistically – and is difficult to predict both substantively and procedurally. Through our experience, and strategic geographic presence through affiliate law firms, CMB helps clients fully assess and manage international and foreign disputes.
Our goal is to exert control over the international dispute process, assess the risks and provide solutions. We counsel and represent clients regarding potential international disputes before litigation is initiated. This includes selecting the best suitable forum and law, and protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights.
Representative Matters
CMB has particular experience in the following international litigation matters:
Act of State Doctrine
Alien Tort Claims Act
Anti-suit injunctions
Bank interventions by foreign regulators
Commercial fraud
Conflicts of law
Dismissals for lack of jurisdiction
Domestication & enforcement of foreign judgments
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Foreign distributorship/representative disputes
Foreign employment and labor disputes
Foreign government litigation
Foreign property expropriation
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
Forum non conveniens doctrine
Interim relief in aid of arbitration proceedings
International class actions
International intellectual property
International investigations
International mass torts
Letters rogatory
Money laundering
Prejudgment remedies abroad
RICO claims
Service of foreign process
Ship arrest
U.S. government seizures
White collar crimes
