Alex Bedrosyan

Mr. Bedrosyan practices international arbitration, international commercial litigation in U.S. courts, and public international law. He has represented clients in a range of industries, including aviation, banking, capital markets, carbon, energy, mining and real estate, in disputes involving breach of contract, fiduciary duty, fraud, tort, and breach of treaty.

Mr. Bedrosyan combines strategic business sense, deep factual research, and multilingual and cross-cultural competency. 

In 2025, Mr. Bedrosyan was selected to the Lexology Index: Arbitration 2025 in the “Future Leaders – Non-Partners” category. In 2021 and 2022, he was recognized by The Legal 500 in the United States in the field of International Arbitration.

While in law school, Mr. Bedrosyan’s team from the University of Pennsylvania made it to the final two in the 2016 Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (out of over 600 teams worldwide). Mr. Bedrosyan argued in the world championship round before judges from the International Court of Justice. At graduation, Mr. Bedrosyan was awarded the Noyes E. Leech Prize for Highest Achievement in International Law.

OTHER LANGUAGES

• Russian
• French
• Armenian
• German

Professional Affiliations

• Armenian Bar Association (received “Top 20 Under 40” Award, November 2022)

• Associate, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, Washington DC, October 2016-April 2023 (previously, paralegal and part-time law-clerk)

International Commercial Arbitration

• Representing Middle Eastern entity in ICC arbitration concerning intellectual property issues. London seat, English substantive law.

• Represented individual French respondent in ICDR/AAA arbitration that, while seated in New York, uniquely involved both U.S. and French arbitral law; the claimant withdrew its demand for arbitration following briefing on the client’s motion to dismiss.

• Represented Chinese casino developer in ICDR/AAA arbitration against the Government of the Commonwealth for the Northern Marianas Islands.

• Served as Tribunal Secretary in an ICC arbitration involving banking regulation by central European public authority.

International Litigation in U.S. Courts

• Representing foreign defendants in litigations under Anti-Terrorism Act and Terrorism Risk Insurance Act.
• Representing Cayman Islands companies in proceeding in New York federal court to confirm CIETAC arbitration award against Chinese party and execute on specific assets.
• Representing Korean company in proceeding in New York State Supreme Court arising out of a de-SPAC transaction.
• Represented French technology company in case before New York State Supreme Court alleging damages under French contract law and the French Trade Code; after briefing on the client’s motion to dismiss, the plaintiff accepted a modest settlement.
• Represented Deutsche Telekom AG in proceedings to confirm PCA/UNCITRAL arbitration award against Republic of India in D.C. federal court. In an unprecedented step, the court dismissed India’s threshold challenges and confirmed the award in a single decision. 
• Represented Republic of Guinea in proceeding brought by Seychelles company to confirm ICC arbitration award in D.C. federal court. The court upheld Guinea’s sovereign immunity and clarified a nuance in the “arbitration exception” to the U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
• Represented Canadian defendant in case before New York State Supreme Court arising out of a cross-border trust; the court dismissed the claim and ordered the plaintiff to pay the client’s attorneys’ fees.

Public International Law

General

• Standing external counsel to sovereign on public international law questions, including all types of jurisdictional immunity (state, foreign official, diplomatic, special missions, and international organizations), execution immunity, countermeasures, the Rome Statute, and treaties concerning humanitarian questions.

Investment Treaty Arbitration

• Represented several sets of Ukrainian investors in UNCITRAL/PCA arbitrations (and set-aside proceedings) against the Russian Federation seeking compensation for seizure of assets in Crimea.  All tribunals found in favor of the investors, and the Dutch and Swiss courts rejected Russia’s attempts to set the awards aside.  These were the first international tribunals ever to find that an investment treaty applies to investments on annexed territory.
• Represented American mining company Westwater Resources Inc. against Republic of Türkiye in ICSID arbitration arising out of state’s revocation of licenses to a uranium mine.  The Tribunal found the state liable and ordered it to pay compensation, including interest and attorneys’ fees.
• Representing American investor Mr. Edmond Khudyan in ICSID proceedings against the Republic of Armenia arising out of real estate development.  Successfully annulled a negative jurisdictional award – one of only 5% of ICSID award that have been annulled – and obtained an order of legal fees and costs for the client.
• Represented French investor Mr. Yves Garnier in still-pending UNCITRAL/PCA arbitration against the Dominican Republic arising out of termination of waste management concession.
• Assisted in representation of Turkish state-owned oil company Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı in ICSID arbitration against the Republic of Kazakhstan.  The parties settled the client’s claims.

International Human Rights Law

• Made written and oral submissions to the U.N. Committee Against Torture (79th Session 2024) and U.N. Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (107th Session 2022) during their country reviews of Azerbaijan, in defense of the rights of ethnic Armenians from the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory.

• Represented Abu Zubaydah, detainee at Guantanamo Bay, in civil claim in U.S. court against former CIA contractors, alleging public international claims under Alien Tort Statute for torture, nonconsensual experimentation, arbitrary detention, and war crimes.

• Helped represent Brisa De Angulo Losada in landmark case against Bolivia before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which resulted in a judgment setting new standards for how states must adopt a gender- and age-sensitive perspective when prosecuting sexual violence.

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