DAVID E. WAGONER
Chartered Arbitrator
FCI Arb. - FSI Arb.
INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION CHAMBERS

AREAS OF EMPHASIS

• Arbitrator and mediator in international and domestic cases.
• Consultant in all aspects of dispute resolution, including the negotiation of clauses, the conduct of arbitration proceedings, and the enforcement of arbitration awards.
• Special focus on international arbitration.

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

• Appointed by the ICDR-AAA in an arbitration in Washington, D.C. and New York involving a foreign investment agreement with a South American Government in which a United States party agreed to rehabilitate and sell power from a plant in South America, being privatized.
• Chair of an ICDR-AAA Maritime and commercial arbitration in New York involving French and United States parties over the construction in France of a yacht for charter in the Mediterranean and Caribbean.
• Appointed by the ICDR-AAA in a Moscow arbitration involving a dispute over the termination of a bottling equipment agreement between United States and Russian parties.
• Chair of an ICC arbitration in San Francisco between United States and Taiwanese parties involving a television programming agreement.
• Sole arbitrator in an AAA international arbitration involving a defective product dispute between U.S. and Taiwanese parties.
• Sole arbitrator in an ICC arbitration involving a licensing and royalty dispute between Canadian and Korean parties.
• Sole arbitrator in a BCICAC arbitration in British Columbia between Korean and Canadian parties in a franchise termination dispute.
• Appointed by an Indonesian party in an UNCITRAL arbitration in Singapore with another Indonesian party involving the supply of fuel to a large power plant.
• Appointed by a Japanese company in an ICC arbitration with a Russian Federation Company involving a claim under a debt restructuring agreement.
• Nominated by a different Japanese party in a similar dispute with another Russian party (ICC).
• Sole arbitrator in a multi-million dollar dispute concerning the purchase of electric power (AAA).
• Appointed by a US company in an arbitration in Zurich involving an aircraft leasing dispute with an airline of an independent Eastern European Republic (ICC).
• Appointed in a domestic dispute involving the sale of aircraft and spare parts (AAA).
• Presiding arbitrator in a controversy involving the purchase of a master franchise and alleged violations (AAA).
• Presiding arbitrator in a controversy over the construction of a major yacht (CPR).
• Mediator in a controversy over the termination of a large number of restaurant franchises (CPR).
• Counsel for a U.S. business in a Chinese arbitration in Shenzhen, China and defense of enforcement action under New York Convention in U.S. District Court.
• Counsel for an American company in an ICC arbitration in Geneva involving commission owed by a German company on the sale of aircraft components.
• Counsel for an Indonesian client in a Singapore arbitration resulting from the termination by European interests of a major hotel joint venture in Indonesia.
• Consultant to U.S. companies in disputes with Philippine and Malaysian parties involving Hong Kong and London (ICC) arbitrations.
• Extensive experience in complex international and commercial litigation.
• Accustomed to writing extensive arbitration awards with a view toward enforceability.
• Special emphasis on expeditious management of Arbitration proceedings.

TEACHING, PUBLISHING, SPEAKING ACTIVITIES

• Faculty: international arbitration training - AAA, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, WIPO.
• Publications: Interim relief, negotiation of clauses, tribunal appointed experts, Russian arbitration law, New York Convention enforcement action, international arbitration management.
• Presentations: Tribunal management of arbitral proceedings, harmonization of procedures in international arbitration, Chinese arbitration, and a variety of other subjects.

ARBITRATION / MEDIATION FORUM

• American Arbitration Association (International, Large Complex Case, Commercial)
• British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre
• China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC)
• Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
• World Intellectual Property Organization
• CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution
• London Court of International Arbitration
• G.C.C. Commercial Arbitration Centre (Bahrain)
• National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD)
• Slovenia, Permanent Court of Arbitration