Jennifer Haworth McCandless serves as counsel in complex international arbitration cases with a focus on investment treaty arbitration. She has advised and represented private and sovereign clients in proceedings before ICSID and its Additional Facility, the ICC and other arbitral institutions, as well as in ad hoc arbitration such as under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Jennifer has also advised and represented private parties and governments in WTO disputes. In addition, she counsels clients on the implications of investment rules for their global operations.
Jennifer has represented clients throughout the world in a variety of cases concerning multiple sectors.
Representative cases include:
Defending a Latin American government in a dispute under CAFTA brought by multiple U.S. investors who had invested in real estate in the country. In an interim award, the Tribunal dismissed the majority of claimants’ claims at the jurisdictional
- level, and claimants decided not to pursue their remaining claims before the Tribunal. Some claimants sought to set the interim award aside. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected claimants’ attempt. Claimants appealed
- the District Court’s decision before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit but then withdrew their appeal shortly thereafter. Thus, the case has now been finally resolved in the government’s favor;
- Representing a Canadian investor in a high-profile, multi-billion dollar NAFTA dispute against the United States involving an oil pipeline in North America;
- Representing a U.S.-based multinational company in a dispute against Poland concerning an investment in food processing facilities; and
- Representing a European engineering and project management company that designs and builds nuclear power plants in an ICC arbitration concerning the design and construction of a nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, which earned The
- American Lawyer’s “Global Dispute of the Year: Commercial Arbitration” award in 2017.
Jennifer has spoken on international arbitration and investor-state dispute resolution including at seminars and workshops sponsored by American University’s Washington College of Law, the U.S. Council for International Business’s Young Arbitrators Forum, and the International Law Section of the D.C. Bar.
Last updated August 2019
