Overview
Ms. Levin serves as counsel and as an arbitrator, focusing her practice on international commercial arbitration, litigation finance, complex commercial and cross-border litigation, as well as enforcement and asset recovery. She frequently represents financial institutions, private equity funds, hedge funds, pension funds, distressed funds and investors in a wide variety of matters. A large portion of her practice is dedicated to disputes and monetization opportunities relating to Brazil and Latin America. She has handled disputes in the music, construction, mining, energy, transportation, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, retail, insurance, and technology sectors. Immediately prior to joining LBKM, Ms. Levin served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for a UK-based litigation finance company. Ms. Levin previously practiced with Clifford Chance US LLP and with Stone & Magnanini LLP (formerly the New Jersey office of Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP).
Ms. Levin is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey as well as in the United States Supreme Court, Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the District of New Jersey. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and serves as an arbitrator for many of the leading arbitral institutions. She serves on the Executive Committee for the New York Branch for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the New York City Bar’s International Commercial Disputes Committee, and the Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association.
Ms. Levin is an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University School of Law, where she has spent more than a decade teaching international commercial arbitration, international sales law, international business transactions, comparative corporate law, and fashion law. She has also taught LL.M courses at the Swiss International Law School and guest lectured at Harvard University, the University of São Paulo and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.
Ms. Levin is an active member of the international arbitration and litigation finance community and regularly lectures and writes on related topics. She served as a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration and Queen Mary Task Force on Third Party Funding and co-wrote the overview chapter on third-party funding contained in the Task Force Report. She has lectured at conferences sponsored by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (“UNCITRAL”), International Chamber of Commerce, International Centre for Dispute Resolution, American Arbitration Association, the United States Council for International Business, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Brazilian Arbitration Committee, the New York City Bar, and participated in the ICC Institute Master Class for Arbitrators in Paris.
Ms. Levin is a dual citizen of the United States and Brazil.
Other Languages
- Portuguese
- Spanish
Speaking Engagements
- Speaker, CBMA, Economics, Costs, and Third Party Funding in Arbitration, Rio, Brazil (2018)
- Speaker, American Chamber of Commerce, Best (and Worst) Practices in International and Domestic Arbitration, São Paulo, Brazil (2018)
- Participant, Commercial Barristers North American Meeting, Vienna, Austria (2018)
- Speaker, Economics of Litigation Finance and Arbitration, St. Gallen, Switzerland (2018)
- Moderator, CIESP/FIESP Panel on Arbitration and Corruption, New York, NY (2018)
- Speaker, American Bar Association Section on International Law, Litigation Finance and Anti-competition and Antitrust Claims, New York, NY (2018)
- Moderator, ICC Brazil Arbitration Day, São Paulo, Brazil (2018)
- Speaker, Tozzini Freire, Anti-Corruption and Arbitration, São Paulo, Brazil (2018)
- Speaker, NYC Bar Corporate Counsel Symposium, Third Party Funding, NY, NY (2017)
- Speaker, Florida International University, Third Party Funding and Arbitration, Miami, FL (2017)
- Speaker, Tozzini Freire, Third Party Funding and Arbitration Roundtable, São Paulo, Brazil (2017)
- Speaker, Columbia Law School-ICCA-Queen Mary Third Party Funding and Arbitration Roundtable (2017)
- Speaker, Juris Conference on Enforcement of Arbitral Awards, New York (2017);
- Speaker, ICCA-ITA-ASIL Conference, Defining Third Party Funding, Washington, D.C. (2017);
- Speaker, NYSBA, Demystifying Third Party Finance and Insurance, New York (2017);
- Speaker, CIARB, International Arbitration and Third Party Finance, New York (2017);
- Speaker AAA, Domestic Arbitration and Third Party Finance, New York (2017);
- Guest Lecturer, Harvard University, International Arbitration and Third Party Finance (2017);
- Speaker, ADR Day, Handling the Challenge of Implicit Bias in ADR, Jersey City (2016);
- Speaker, NJSBA Convention, Cross Cultural Consciousness in International ADR, Atlantic City (2016);
- Speaker, AAA, Promoting Diversity in International Arbitration, New York (2016);
- Speaker, The Interplay between International Arbitration, the Courts, and Investment, Rwanda (2016);
- Speaker, Doing Business in Latin America, New Zealand (2015);
- Speaker, Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce (BACC) Program on Arbitration and Anti-Corruption Compliance in Brazil, New York (2015);
- Speaker, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Young Arbitrators Forum on the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and Arbitration, Curitiba, Brazil (2015);
- Speaker, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Conference on CISG and Arbitration in Brazil, Curitiba, Brazil (2015);
- Speaker, UNCITRAL Conference: 35 Years of the CISG and Beyond, A New York Practitioner’s Guide to the CISG and Arbitration, Basel, Switzerland (2015);
- Guest Lecturer, University of São Paulo, Use of CISG and ICA in Brazil (2014);
- Guest Lecturer, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards (2014);
- Speaker, Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce Conference on Infrastructure Investments and International Arbitration, Arbitration in Brazil, New York (2014);
- Speaker, ICC YAF Miami, Parallel Proceedings and Use of Interim Relief, Miami (2014);
- Speaker, Use of UNCITRAL Instruments to Promote Regional Harmonization, South Africa (2014);
- Speaker, Healthcare and ADR, Newark, NJ (2014);
- Speaker, ICDR Y&I, Hot Topics in ICA, São Paulo (2013);
- Speaker, ICDR Y&I, Forging the Way Towards a Career in Int’l Arbitration, New York (2013);
- Moderator, New York City Bar, Women in Int’l Law: Transforming the Legal Landscape (2013);
- Speaker, A Day of Int’l Arbitration in Study & Practice, New York (2012);
- Moderator, ICDR Y&I Roundtable discussion on ICA in Brazil, Miami (2012);
- Participant, International Chamber of Commerce Institute Master Class for Arbitrators, Paris (2012);
- Observer, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Model Law Working Group II on Arbitration and Conciliation and III on Online Dispute Resolution, New York (2006 – 2012);
- Speaker, USCIB/ICC, Best Practices for Meeting a Client’s Needs in Int’l Arbitration, New York (2007);
- Speaker, ICDR/CBAr International Commercial Arbitration Conference, São Paulo (2007); and
- Speaker, Annual Workshop on Arbitration, The Americanization of International Arbitration: Myth or Reality, New York (2006).
Professional Affiliations
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Executive Committee of the New York Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- International Council for Commercial Arbitration and Queen Mary University Task Force on Third Party Funding
- International Centre for Dispute Resolution Panel of Arbitrators
- American Arbitration Association Panel of Arbitrators
- Singapore International Arbitration Centre Reserve Panel of Arbitrators
- International Chamber of Commerce Young Arbitrator Forum
- Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce
- Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr)
- Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce Center for Arbitration and Mediation
- Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation of the Federation of Industries of the State of Paraná
- Young International Arbitrator Group of the London Court of International Arbitration
- Institute for Transnational Arbitration Advisory Board
- New York City Bar International Commercial Disputes Committee
- New York State Bar Dispute Resolution Committee
- Arbitral Women
- Lifland Inn of Court for Intellectual Property and Federal Practice
- New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators
- New Jersey Federal Bar Association
- New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Complementary Dispute Resolution
- SameSky Ambassador
Experience
- TheJudge, Senior Vice President and General Counsel
- Stone Magnanini LLP (formerly Boies Schiller Flexner LLP)
- Clifford Chance US LLP
- Saiber LLC
- Rutgers School of Law (Adjunct Professor)
- Honorable Dennis J. Braithwaite, J.A.D, New Jersey
- Honorable Theodore A. McKee, U.S.C.C.J., 3rd Circuit
Publications & Events
- The Cornell Club, New York, NY, June 18, 2019
A dual Brazilian and US national who has led TheJudge litigation funding and insurance company in New York for the past year has returned to private practice, joining disputes boutique Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss to help strengthen its Latin America practice.
www.globalarbitrationreview.com, November 8, 2017- By Shayna Posses
“I’m very, very lucky to have an opportunity where I can practice in international arbitration, focused on the substantive areas that I know well, and also be able to apply the skills I’ve learned working at the litigation finance company,” Levin said.
www.law360.com, October 24, 2017 - • Practical Law Institute Practical Note on Litigation Finance and Arbitration in the Americas (forthcoming)
- Chapter 2, Overview of Third Party FundingICCA-Queen Mary Task Force Report on Third Party Funding
- Using the CISG and International Commercial Arbitration as a Best Practice in Brazil(forthcoming)
- Commentary on the Brazil-Canada Chamber (CAM-CCBC) Center for Arbitration and Mediation Arbitration Article 7 on ProcedureThe CAM-CCBC Arbitration Rules: A Commentary, Straube, Finkelstein, and Filho (eds.), Eleven International Publishing, 2016, p. 129
- A CISG e a Arbitragem Comercial Internacional no BrasilA CISG E O Brasil, Schwenzer, Pereira, and Tripodi (eds.), Marcial Pons, 2015, p. 575
- Litigation Finance and Insurance: Five Pitfalls for the UninitiatedInside Counsel, October 6, 2017
- Move over, please? Law Firms Get a Seat at the Litigation Finance TableNew York Law Journal, September 25, 2017
- Litigation Finance and Insurance: Five Tips to Securing the Best Funding TermsInside Counsel, September 19, 2017
- And, the Law Applicable to the Arbitration Agreement IsNew York State Bar Association Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 2015
- Understanding the Remedy of Price Reduction – A Means to Fostering a More Uniform Application of the CISG7 VINDOBONA J. INT’L COM. L. & ARB. 255, 2003
In the News
Six LBKM professionals have been selected to the 2019 New York and Washington, DC Super Lawyers lists - an honor limited to 5 percent of the lawyers in each state. In addition, one LBKM professional has been selected to the 2019 New York Rising Stars list.
October 2019Erika Levin has been recognized as a member of the 2018 International Arbitration Law360 editorial advisory board whose purpose is to provide feedback on Law360's coverage and gain insight from experts in the field on how best to shape future coverage.
Law360, March 22, 2018Erika Levin told Law360 that the decision is interesting because it shows the increasing attention being paid to "phase two" of arbitrations: the enforcement stage. That's important since arbitration awards were traditionally viewed as final and binding, with very little opportunity to overturn them once they're issued.
The decision is particularly interesting since Brazilian courts have traditionally been perceived to be very pro-arbitration and deferential, she said.
"You're starting to see more activity in phase two, the second act of the arbitration," she said. “Parties need to be mindful that multiple jurisdictions could be involved in an enforcement strategy, and that the results could differ drastically depending on the jurisdictions involved.”Law360, December 18, 2017- Law360, December 11, 2017
Practice Areas
Education
- Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, NJ
- Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ
Bar Admissions
- New York
- New Jersey
- United States Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second, Third and Fourth Circuits
- Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
- District of New Jersey