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Areas of Practice
Experience
Frederick T. Davis is a litigation partner whose practice focuses on international arbitration and criminal, regulatory and civil litigation and investigations involving US law.
Mr. Davis has tried numerous cases in private practice and has represented clients in high profile matters in both French and English language tribunals. He has represented major US, French and multinational companies in international arbitrations administered by the ICC, AAA and other institutions, and has also served as an arbitrator in ICC arbitrations. The French government has named him a “Chevalier” of the National Order of Merit of France.
Mr. Davis’s recent matters include litigations and international arbitrations for General Electric, NBC and PdVSA. He represented five of the largest banks in France in litigations related to World War II assets; Citibank in many international proceedings including lawsuits in India, Gabon and Australia and Lloyd’s of London related litigation; and the heirs of W. Averell Harriman in a lawsuit against Pamela C. Harriman. In John Hancock Leasing Corp. v. Frank, he obtained a $28 million judgment for the plaintiffs in a RICO jury trial, and in 2006 in RMST v. State Bank of Long Island he obtained a $44 million verdict in a jury fraud trial.
Mr. Davis is a past chair of the European Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar Association. He is also a member of the International Bar Association, American Bar Association, Federal Bar Council and American Law Institute. He is an elected fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a frequent lecturer for the New York Law Journal seminars, Practicing Law Institute, American Bar Association, International Chamber of Commerce, and Federal Bar Council. He taught a full academic course on international litigation and arbitration as the Nomura Lecturer on International law at the Harvard Law School during the 2007 Winter Term. He also founded and led a series of a pro bono trial advocacy training seminars (in French and English) for the prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
His publications include “The American Legal System Confronts the Holocaust,” 41 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 489 (2003); “Enforcing the International Arbitration Award”; “Transnational Insolvency: The BCCI and Maxwell Litigations” and “Litigation Under the Lanham Act.”
Mr. Davis joined Debevoise as a partner in 2004. He served as an Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 1974 to 1979, where he was Chief of Appeals from 1977 to 1978. Mr. Davis served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Henry J. Friendly, Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit and to Justice Potter Stewart of the US Supreme Court.
He received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1967 and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1972, where he was the Writing and Research Editor of the Columbia Law Review.
Language(s)
English
French
German
Bar Admissions
Paris
New York
Education
Harvard University,
1967,
B.A.
Columbia Law School,
1972,
J.D.
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