The global team at Reinhardt Savic Foley is able to consult with private and public sector actors to provide legal advice and assistance to ensure compliance with the due diligence, licensing, reporting and other requirements of the international and regional sanctions regimes applicable to private and public sector actors as well as support and assistance to ensure respect for due process and other human rights standards in the implementation of such sanctions regimes.
As the global economy becomes increasingly accessible to entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes, so too rises the risk and increased complexity of legal, regulatory, commercial, and strategic issues encountered by those businesses. Businesses of all sizes, whether they are in the global market or looking to expand abroad, require legal counsel as cross-border disputes are increasingly more significant and common. Where you or a corporate entity is involved in a dispute arising within the context of international business, foreign regulation, or international commercial relations, often involving multiple legal proceedings in courts of different jurisdictions, you require lawyers experienced in Cross-Border Litigation.
The Reinhardt Savic Foley team combines experience in jurisdictions across the US and Europe, knowledge of local laws and procedure, applicable international instruments, and disputes at both the trial and appellate levels. Our team is experienced in efficiently managing disputes and litigations often involving multiple proceedings advancing before courts of different jurisdictions. We efficiently and cost effectively provide cross-border litigation services by integrating our experience with case and data management technology, virtual conferencing and court appearances, and electronic document management and discovery systems. By combining our international experience with the appropriate case management technology, Reinhardt Savic Foley and its partners are able to act for your business interests in cross-border disputes across the US, Europe and multiple other jurisdictions around the world.
Our data protection and privacy team combines practitioners from the United States, UK and EU experienced in advising on the aspects of fundamental data legislation including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), UK Data Protection Act (DPA), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), New York’s current Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act) and future New York Privacy Act (NYPA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Our team advises on various data and privacy issues including consumer and personal data and privacy protection, corporate data collection and management compliance, data processing and disclosure compliance, corporate terms of use, mobile banking and money transmitting, virtual currency, and data breach notifications. We can work with clients to formulate and prepare data protection compliance plans and can act in data breach reporting, regulatory matters, and prosecution defense actions.
Our practical and extensive experience in litigation, dispute resolution, investigations, corporate governance, white collar, data and privacy security, regulatory defense, and other practice areas provide a unique insight into a wide range of commercial, internal business, partnership, fiduciary duty, labor and employment, contractual, and business development considerations that allow us to offer existing and new clients general counselling services and advice. The team at Reinhardt Savic Foley has advised clients on matters including businesses expanding into the United States, executive severances, and business and partnership divorces. Our team also advises on joint ventures including due diligence reviews, preparation and review of non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, and drafting joint venture agreements.
Considering the international presence of the majority of businesses and contemplated joint ventures today, there are numerous considerations that could have significant impact should a dispute or litigation arise. While choice of law, choice of forum, and arbitration clauses may not be at the forefront of consideration in the midst of an emerging commercial venture, it is crucial to receive effective legal counsel related to such considerations before becoming contractually bound by any agreement. Given the vast options in terms of the governing law, location of a litigation should one arise, and arbitral institutions and formulations, it is often difficult to make the right choices in an agreement. It can be crucial to your business to get tailored advice from lawyers with international and litigation experience from the contract drafting stage to the resolution of a dispute that may arise. The right advice in relation to choice of law, choice of forum, and international arbitration agreements in commercial deals can both protect your business and put it in a favorable initial position if a dispute arises as well as placing it in advantageous position for the negotiation and settlement of disputes. Our broad experiences and practical approach to counselling our clients allows us to identify and manage risks, then plan for the effective resolution of disputes that might jeopardize your business.
The lawyers at Reinhardt Savic Foley are skillful in international arbitration and dispute resolution from formal proceedings before an international arbitral forum to simply counselling a client through a negotiated resolution to a dispute with a business partner.
International arbitration provides an effective and efficient method of resolving complex international disputes and is a preferred method of international dispute resolution. International arbitration before an established institution offers more flexible rules of procedures and evidence, increased levels of confidentiality, and greater involvement by the parties in choosing who will arbitrate the dispute and make a final determination. With an institutional arbitration tribunal a client can expect formal proceedings more akin to a case progressing through a federal court where a specialized institution is engaged and administers the arbitration case management and progress. The advantage of institutional arbitration is the administration and management of a matter under their established rules that progresses the arbitration in an efficient and timely manner, as well as increased prospects for enforcement, which otherwise can be a considerable challenge in international litigation.
The Reinhardt Savic Foley team has represented clients in commercial disputes across a range of sectors and variety of disputes and has experience before and with the rules of with major arbitration tribunals including The American Arbitration Association (AAA), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), JAMS, The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).
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Our team works diligently to help you collect or defend against collection of judgments owed. We have experience in collecting on judgments and in defending individuals and companies against improper and aggressive judgment collection. Successful recovery of judgment requires identifying and navigating applicable federal, state, and international laws to enforce judgments. In seeking to collect on judgments and other debts owed, we know how to investigate assets and have trusted relationships with investigative resources experienced in locating assets, as well as employing pressure on the debtor to the fullest extent of the law. We have employed pre-judgment remedies to secure assets and have successfully enforced judgments and settled collection actions by pressuring judgment debtors in equitable settlements for our clients. In defending individuals and companies, we have ensured that judgment creditors play by the rules and do not get more than they are entitled by law.
Enforcement of an international judgment from outside US, or enforcing a US judgment abroad, is significantly more complicated and requires knowledge of local procedures and requirements in the jurisdiction in which enforcement is sought, or reciprocal agreements or treaties between the jurisdictions engaged in the judgment enforcement. Even understanding the criteria a domestic or foreign court may use in determination as to the enforceability of a foreign judgment is crucial in securing recovery. Our team has trusted relationships with firms around the world to ensure the proper and effective enforcement of a foreign judgment.
Members of Reinhardt Savic Foley bring a wealth of truly rich and unique expert experience in in public international law and human rights. RSF can provide legal advice and assistance on the range of legal questions and disputes arising under public international law including but not limited to the law of treaties; international humanitarian law; international human rights law; international refugee law, international criminal law and counter-terrorism; diplomatic, consular and functional immunities among others. We can also provide legal advice and assistance in preparing national reports required by international treaties and UN resolutions including UN Security Council resolutions as well as the universal periodic review of the UN Human Rights Council. Our global team can collaborate across borders to provide practical assistance to public sector actors including legal briefings and trainings for governments and other actors with international legal personality on any of the forgoing.
Members of our team are frequently sought for advice on international law and human rights issues and have worked on government sponsored investigations into allegations of human rights abuses in the post-war occupation of Iraq.
Members of the Reinhardt Savic Foley team have successfully acted on proceedings under The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and have advised members of government and judiciary on the operation of the Convention. This Hague Convention primarily deals with children who are wrongfully removed from one signatory country to another or who are wrongfully retained in a country not of their habitual residence. The Convention provides the law and specific procedural steps to facilitate the immediate return of children back to their country of their habitual residence from which they have been wrongly removed and ensures custody and access rights under the laws of one country are respected in another country.
Our multidisciplinary team of lawyers with litigation, international, international family law, criminal, and investigation backgrounds are well suited to assist even in the most complex Hague Convention matter. Our team can help prevent the removal of the child and defend against any Hague Application seeking to return the child lawfully removed to the United States or United Kingdom, diligently assist in securing the immediate return of a child unlawfully taken to the United States or United Kingdom, and advise on appropriate provisional measures while Hague Conventions proceedings are progressing. Relatedly, we can assist on matters under Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (“UCCJEA”) where a child has been unlawfully taken to a country not a signatory of the Hague Convention, or from one State to another within the United States.
The global team at Reinhardt Savic Foley is able to service private and public sector actors providing legal consulting on commercial, corporate, banking (Conventional and Shari’ah) and energy law in connection with foreign direct investments in Saudi Arabia.
Members of Reinhardt Savic Foley have counsel experience in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates having advised a wide range of clients including Oil & Gas, Industrial, Construction, Education, Interactive Entertainment, FMCG Distribution, Franchising and Real Estate companies and addressing a variety of matters related to corporate, licensing, regulatory and contractual issues.
