Alex Bedrosyan

Mr. Bedrosyan practices in the areas of international disputes and litigation.  He has successfully represented individual, corporate, and sovereign clients before U.S. courts and international tribunals in disputes arising under U.S., foreign, or public international law. 

Mr. Bedrosyan works hard to quickly develop a deep knowledge of the subject matter of a case.  He has persuaded adjudicators to adopt novel interpretations of treaties in favor of his clients, and has particular experience in oral advocacy, including delivering opening and closing statements and cross-examining experts in international arbitrations. 

In 2021 and 2022, Mr. Bedrosyan 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 Law School 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.

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 and Litigation

• Representing foreign client in connection with U.S. litigations under Anti-Terrorism Act.
• Representing private and sovereign clients in attempts to enforce, resist enforcement of, or vacate international arbitration awards in U.S. courts.
• Represented individual French respondent in ICDR/AAA arbitration involving questions of both U.S. and French arbitral and substantive law; the claimant withdrew its demand for arbitration following briefing on the client’s motion to dismiss.
• 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 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 attorney’s fees.
• Represented Chinese casino developer in dispute with Government of the Commonwealth for the Northern Marianas Islands; obtained federal court injunction of intended regulatory action, compelled arbitration, and defeated government’s threshold arguments in the arbitration.
• Served as Tribunal Secretary in an ICC arbitration involving banking regulation by central European public authority.

Public International Law

General

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

International Investment 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 awards that have been annulled – and obtained an order of legal fees and costs for the client.
• Representing 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.
• Representing Abu Zubaydah, detainee at Guantanamo Bay, in civil claim in U.S. court against former CIA contractors, alleging public international law claims under Alien Tort Statute for torture, nonconsensual experimentation, arbitrary detention, and war crimes.
• Representing individual detained in Latvia in proceedings before the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
• 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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