Lisa Wang Lachowicz

About Lisa Wang Lachowicz

Lisa Wang Lachowicz is an associate in the Litigation Department of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and a member of the International Dispute Resolution Group.Ms. Lachowicz’s practice focuses on international commercial and investor-state arbitration and public international law. She represents sovereign States, companies, and individuals in disputes ranging the energy (especially LNG and mining), construction, and healthcare industries. She has experience arbitrating under the ICC, UNCITRAL, and ICSID Rules. Ms. Lachowicz has also represented clients in arbitration- and international law-related litigations in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. federal court, and New York and Delaware state courts. In 2024, she successfully argued an appeal in the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department, resulting in the dismissal of parent company claims seeking to collaterally attack a final arbitration award.Ms. Lachowicz is the co-author of “Standard of Proof in International Commercial Arbitration,” in F. Ferrari and F. Rosenfeld (eds.), Handbook of Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration: Key Issues and Concepts (2022) and co-author of “War Manifestos,” 85 U. Chi. L. Rev. She is a recipient of the 2019 Above & Beyond Pro Bono Achievement Award from Sanctuary for Families and the 2018 Safe Haven Award from Immigration Equality. She is a graduate of the ICC Advanced Arbitrator Academy for North America and served as Secretary to the Organizing Committee of New York Arbitration Week 2023.Ms. Lachowicz joined Debevoise in 2017. She received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2017 and an A.B. cum laude from Harvard University in 2014- Select Experience -An energy infrastructure company in successfully defeating a claim seeking termination of a 20-year service agreement.An emerging markets investment manager in a Specific Instance grievance process administered by a National Contact Point for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. A Japanese pharmaceutical company in winning an ICC arbitration against a U.S-based pharmaceutical company involving a co-development, licensing and supply agreement.A leading global engineering and project management company in an UNCITRAL arbitration arising out of the construction of a multibillion dollar LNG plant.A European fintech company in defending claims of over $60 million arising out of a putative software licensing and services agreement.

Experience

1. Associate

   Debevoise & Plimpton

   Oct 2017 — Present · New York, NY, US

Education

• Harvard University

  Bachelor's degree, Political Science and Government

  2010 — 2014

• Yale Law School

  J.D., Law

  2014 — 2017