
International Trade and Arbitration
International Trade
We help our clients minimize their risks and maximize the opportunities linked to the growing regulation of international trade with goods and services. Thanks to our knowledge and experience in this field as well as to a contact network linking top foreign experts, we are able to provide highly professional, complex and innovative legal solutions even in complex commercial disputes crossing various sectors of international trade. We have broad experience with the application of the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and model contract clauses like INCOTERMS, FIDIC etc.
Our legal practice includes:
- preparation, revision and assessment of contracts and contractual obligations in cases with an international element,
- participation in complex cross-border commercial transactions or in extraterritorial and multijurisdictional matters and disputes.
International Arbitration
Our firm offers a qualified legal counselling also in the area of international commercial and investment arbitration.
Our legal practice includes:
- preparation of structured arbitration clauses,
- assistance with the selection of a convenient arbitration body,
- counselling before proceedings, conciliatory dispute resolution as well as leading of the arbitration itself in accordance with the rules of many acknowledged international arbitration centres.
- represent our clients in the consequent recognition and enforcement of the arbitration award as well as in the proceedings on actions to set aside an arbitration award or during an extrajudicial settlement.
You may also be interested:
- in the area of international investment protection, in addition to representing itself in the dispute, we are able to make a qualified assessment of the various obligations arising from international investment protection agreements, as well as the related issues of state immunity or the applicability of the so-called doctrine of necessity;
- we have experience in representation before institutions as ICC, LCIA, DIS, SCC, MORE, ICSID etc., both in direct representation of clients and in cooperation with leading foreign experts and leading foreign law firms in this field;
- thanks to our worldwide network of contacts, we are able to provide legal advice even in complex cases involving a number of jurisdictions.

Petr Bříza
Expert on international trade and arbitration

Tomáš Hokr
Expert on international trade and arbitration
Latest news in the field
Thirty years of arbitration: expert discussion on the future direction of the Czech legal framework
The conference marking 30 years of the Czech Arbitration Act opened a debate on the modernization of Czech arbitration. Petr Bříza, serving as a co-organiser, presented proposals for legislative amendments aimed at ensuring greater flexibility in international arbitral proceedings, expressing hope that they will form part of future legislative considerations.
Petr Bříza spoke in Rome at an Unidroit seminar on the issue of cross-border assignment of claims
The Unidroit expert seminar in Rome focused on one of the most complex issues of private international law: determining the applicable law for resolving competing third-party claims in cases of cross-border assignment of receivables. Petr Bříza, together with other experts, discussed the divergent national approaches and the possible directions for further harmonisation of this still-fragmented area.
Petr Bříza lectured on international arbitration at the Summer School of International Business Law in Copenhagen.
Our law firm's partner, Petr Bříza, lectured at the second annual Summer School of International Business Law, held at the University of Copenhagen from June 18 to June 27.