Irene Ribeiro

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ABOUT IRENE RIBEIRO

Irene Ribeiro focuses her practice on commercial litigation, commercial arbitration (international and domestic), and international investment arbitration. For more than twenty years, Irene has represented companies, states and individuals in state and federal courts in the United States, as well as in administered and ad hoc domestic and international arbitrations under the rules of various arbitral organizations, including ICC, ICSID, ICDR, CONSTRUCTION, ARIAS, BCICAC (VANIAC), SMA, and UNCITRAL. Irene specializes in complex litigation before courts and arbitral tribunals, regularly engaging with lawyers from civil and common-law legal systems to ensure a client\'s litigation strategy in the United States is coordinated with its interests abroad. She advises on how New York and U.S. federal law and procedure can be used to assist in foreign proceedings. Irene has developed a particular expertise seeking provisional remedies, such as attachments and injunctions and enforcing and resisting international and domestic judgments and arbitral awards. Over the years Irene has advised and represented clients in a wide range of industries, such as construction, commodities, transportation, insurance, hospitality, energy (oil and gas, ethanol and nuclear), telecom, mining, and biotech. Irene has handled dozens of transportation and international sales disputes on behalf of her international trade clients, involving charter parties, international sale of goods, demurrage, and insurance coverage. Besides her regular commercial litigation and arbitration practice, Irene spent almost five years handling complex insurance and reinsurance coverage advice and litigation and arbitrations. Prior to joining Dunning Rievman LLP, Irene spent almost two decades in the disputes departments of some of the largest American and English law firms. Irene has an extensive network in the United States, Latin America, Southern Europe and Brazil where she was born, obtained her first law degree and started to practice law.