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Donald Francis Donovan concentrates his practice in international disputes before courts in the United States, international arbitration tribunals, and international courts. Based on surveys of other practitioners, he was recently identified as one of the six leading international arbitration practitioners in the world by Chambers Global 2009, which said that he is “one of the best advocates that you will ever see.” Chambers Global 2008 called him “one of the world’s leading practitioners in both investment treaty and commercial arbitration; Chambers USA 2008 described him as, “simply put, one of the world’s leading practitioners” in international arbitration; and Legal 500 U.S. 2008 said “there is no-one better.” He was also ranked one of the two leading international arbitration practitioners in the United States in Expert Guides to the World’s Leading Lawyers: Best of the Best USA (Euromoney 2007); one of the twelve leading public international lawyers in the world in Chambers Global 2009; and one of the thirty-one leading litigators in the United States in Expert Guides to the Leading Lawyers: Best of the Best USA (Euromoney 2009). He has been described in similar publications as a “visionary,” an “absolute star,” a “truly amazing lawyer,” and a “towering figure” in the field of international arbitration. In June 2006, with his partner David W. Rivkin, Mr. Donovan was awarded the first Chambers Award of Excellence in International Arbitration. Later that year, for his achievements in both international arbitration and international human rights, he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Jurisprudencia by the Mexican Bar Association, the first non-Mexican so honored, and shortly thereafter, he was inducted as a member of the Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca, the highest award given by the Government of Mexico to non-Mexicans.
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