Andrea Menaker

Andrea Menaker is Head of the Firm’s Public International Law Group and specializes in investment arbitration, where 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 to grow and co-lead the Firm’s investment arbitration practice there.

Andrea has been described in Chambers USA as “a very impressive, poised and excellent speaker” who “is hailed for her flawless presentation skills,” and in Global Arbitration Review’s Who’s Who as “spectacular” and “tremendously skilled and highly effective.” Chambers Global notes that she is “excellent” and “very capable of moving with the punches and dealing with difficult counterparties,” and The Legal 500 describes her as “magnificent” and “very conscientious.” In 2011, Andrea was ranked by Global Arbitration Review as one of the top 45 international arbitration practitioners worldwide under the age of 45.

Prior to 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 United States’ bilateral investment treaties and investment chapters of free trade agreements.

Andrea is an Executive Committee member of the Swedish Arbitration Association, a Council Member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and an elected member of the American Law Institute. She is a former Board Member of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and the Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage, a former member of the Executive Council of the American Law and served as Chair of the Programme Committee for ICCA’s 2016 Congress in Mauritius. She has been appointed to the ICDR Panel of Arbitrators and the P.R.I.M.E. Finance panel of experts.

Andrea received a White & Case Pro Bono Award for conducting a workshop with the UNRCCA on State-to-State dispute resolution for Central Asian States, and for preparing comparative law analyses for the Government of Nepal to assist in its drafting of a new constitution.

Andrea is frequently called upon to speak on international arbitration and investor-State dispute resolution issues. She has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Centre, where she taught international commercial arbitration for several years, and has lectured at several other universities.