BRUCE ZAGARIS
BACKGROUND ON ARBITRATION WORK

Arbitration Proceedings

1989-90: transnational commercial dispute between a multinational English company and a U.S. company [as part of a three-person American Arbitration Association (AAA) arbitration];

1990: AAA arbitration involving a dispute over construction of a parking garage (single-person arbitration);

1995-1999 AAA arbitration involving a merger of companies concerning non-disclosure of bribery and related matters by the acquired entity ( the head of a three-person arbitration);

In the 1980s, he served as counsel for a national franchise on two arbitrations in state courts of California arising of commercial disputes between the franchisees and the national franchisor;

In 1993, he counseled a U.S. and Russian client on enforcement in the U.S. of arbitral award of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce arising of the purchase of computer agreement (Experimental Pilot Product Site of the Moscow Aviation Engineering Institute (EOPMATI) and California Western Technology.

In 1995, his testimony as an expert witness in the case of Joseph Muldrow v. Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, an arbitration before an arbitral panel of the New York Stock Exchange, involving the discharge of an auditor for reporting various violations of anti-money laundering laws on international transfer of funds in DLJ’s Miami office, resulted in a verdict in favor of the auditor for whom he testified.  CNBC subsequently did a piece on it, in which Mr. Zagaris was featured.  
In 1995, he was retained as an arbitrator before an arbitral panel of the New York Stock Exchange involving international transfers of money by a securities broker and issues of Panamanian company law.  

During 1998-2003, he  served as the main arbitrator for a AAA dispute involving the acquisition of a garbage company in which allegations of criminal and civil RICO were made.
	
Related Matters

During the last ten years Mr. Zagaris has advised governments and investors on resolving investment disputes, especially concerning expropriation matters.  One matter is now pending exhaustion of domestic remedies and efforts by the investor’s country to jawbone the host country.

During the last fifteen years Mr. Zagaris has served as an expert witness and consultant in over 30 cases involving international business.

Publications

Ecuador, U.S. Turn to Alternative Remedies in Tax Dispute, Tax Notes Int’l 7-05-10 (Nov. 22, 2004).

Investment Treaties May Offer Significant Benefits, 65 Investment/USA 11 (May 1983) (discusses, inter alia, the application of BITs to investment disputes).

The Use of Investment Agreements and Trust Arrangements in Successful International Business Planning, International Trusts Congress 2004, Institute for International Investments, Dec. 7, 2004, London.