Andrea Menaker
White & Case
Andrea Menaker is Head of the White & Case Public International Law Group and specializes in investment arbitration. She has represented respondent States and claimant investors in equal measure in some of the most ground-breaking investment arbitration cases. Andrea also has an active practice in relation to enforcement of arbitral awards and has coordinated such actions worldwide for clients, in addition to serving as arbitrator and expert witness on investor-State issues. After more than a decade in the Firm’s Washington, DC office, Andrea transferred to London in 2019, where she leads the investment arbitration practice. Before joining White & Case, Andrea was Chief of the NAFTA Arbitration Division for the US State Department, where she was lead counsel for the United States in investor-State arbitrations under the investment chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and participated in the drafting of investment and dispute resolution provisions in the United States’ investment treaties and free trade agreements.