Lucinda Low
Lucinda Low brings her decades of experience in international trade, investment, and other complex international business matters in a wide range of industries. She has been a leader in the legal profession and in private law practice. Her arbitration experience includes significant work as counsel, expert, and adjudicator. At a time when disputes are becoming ever more complex, and with the growth of international regulatory compliance issues, Lucinda’s background equips her with the knowledge, judgment, and experience to address and resolve transnational disputes and challenges fairly and efficiently.
As a member of LKDR, Lucinda will focus on international adjudication in ad hoc and institutional arbitration matters, as well as in matters involving the multilateral development banks and other international organizations. She is also available for conciliation and similar services.
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Services
International Arbitration
- Investor-State disputes
- State-State disputes involving investment, sanctions, taxation, trade and other issues
- International commercial disputes involving individuals, private entities, States or State-owned enterprises in the concessions, construction, energy, finance, manufacturing, mining, natural resources, procurement, technology transfer, and other sectors
Other International Dispute Resolution Mechanisms
- Mediation and conciliation of investment and commercial disputes
- Commissions of Inquiry and fact-finding bodies
- International trade dispute panels
- Other international adjudication, whether ad hoc or institutional
- Compliance monitoring
Lucinda’s Story
Lucinda began her legal career at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., where she worked on a mix of international disputes, project financing, and international regulatory compliance and enforcement matters. She cut her teeth in investment arbitration before the Iran/US Claims Tribunal, where she was privileged to argue one of the first cases to go to a hearing before that Tribunal. While there, she also gained experience in international commercial arbitration and disputes.
Private Practice in Denver CO and Washington DC
Following her time at Covington, she returned to her native Colorado for almost ten years, heading the international practice at one of the major Denver law firms. There, she continued a practice mix that included disputes, cutting-edge international commercial transactions, and international regulatory compliance and enforcement work, gaining particular experience with the telecommunications and high-tech industries.
After returning to Washington, D.C., her practice focused on transnational disputes, both investor-state and commercial, and international regulatory compliance and enforcement matters, including projects financed by multilateral development banks such as the World Bank. She has been recognized for her expertise in all of these areas and is particularly known in the anti-corruption area, which has taken her to some of the most challenging parts of the globe. She has deep experience with long-term fixed investments in the extractive industries (mining, oil and gas, and related services), energy, and telecommunications, as well as with infrastructure projects. Other sectors in which she has done substantial work include construction and engineering, defense, hospitality, agriculture and fisheries, financial services, health care and pharmaceuticals, transportation, and maritime.
International Arbitration and State enterprises
In recent years, Lucinda has increasingly focused her practice on serving as an arbitrator in both investor-State and international commercial disputes, including matters involving State enterprises. She has also served as an expert witness in a number of cases involving international regulatory compliance issues. She was appointed by the United States to the ICSID Panel of Conciliators in 2016 and by the World Bank President to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators in 2017. She is on the roster of a number of other institutions as well. Although she acts most often as President of a tribunal, she has been appointed by both claimants and respondents, and has served as a sole arbitrator as well. Her CV (which can be accessed below) lists cases to date in which she has served as arbitrator.
Professional Activities
Lucinda served as President of the American Society of International Law in 2016-18, and as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law from 1996-97. She chairs the Board of Directors of the Coalition for Integrity, a not-for-profit organization that is focused on issues of integrity, accountability, transparency, and the rule of law. She is a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law, the Leadership Council of the World Justice Project, and of the ICC Task Force on Dealing with Allegations of Corruption in International Arbitration (where she co-leads one of the “tracks” established for its work). She has taught both International Business Transactions and Conflicts of Law at U.S. law schools on an adjunct basis. She has received many awards for her work and is recognized as a thought leader.
