Donald Francis Donovan

Retired Partner
New York
Tel: +1 212 909 6233
Overview
Mr. Donovan has long been regarded as one of the leading public international lawyers, international arbitration practitioners, and international advocates ... Read Full Biography

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  • Investor-State Arbitration in the Asia Pacific
    29 July 2020
    Debevoise and Corrs
    Webinar
    Speaker: Donald Francis Donovan, Lord Goldsmith KC, Cameron Sim
    Speaking Engagements
  • The Role of Courts and Arbitration Panels in the Design of M&A Agreements – Confidentiality in Arbitration of M&A Deals: The Good and the Bad
    9 March 2020
    New York University, FGV Direito SP, Universidade de São Paulo
    M&A Conference of the Americas – MACA 2020
    São Paulo, Brazil
    Speaker: Donald Francis Donovan
    Speaking Engagements
  • Arbitral Decision-Making: Rationality, Psychology, Economy and Bias?
    15 November 2019
    University of Oxford
    IV Oxford Symposium on Comparative International Commercial Arbitration
    Oxford, UK
    Speaker: Donald Francis Donovan
    Speaking Engagements
  • Provisional Measures at the International Court of Justice: Possibilities for Plausibility
    11-12 October 2019
    American Branch of the International Law Association
    International Law Weekend 2019
    New York, New York
    Speaker: Donald Francis Donovan
    Speaking Engagements
  • Arbitration
    20 July 2017
    Arbitration and Drafting Arbitration Agreements
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Speaker: Donald Francis Donovan, Patrick Taylor
    Speaking Engagements
  • A Conversation with the ICCA President
    18 May 2017
    International Council for Commercial Arbitration
    A Conversation with the ICCA President
    São Paulo, Brazil
    Speaker: Donald Francis Donovan
    Speaking Engagements
  • Infrastructure Investment in the Americas
    11 May 2017
    Debevoise & Plimpton
    Debevoise Seminar
    Tokyo, Japan
    Speaker: Donald Francis Donovan, Tony Dymond, Maurizio Levi-Minzi, Naomi Aoyama, Ezra Borut
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  • Keynote Speech – Repositioning Arbitration
    24 February 2017
    ICC, UNCITRAL, VIAC, YAAP
    Vienna Arbitration Days 2017
    Vienna, Austria
    Speaker: Donald Francis Donovan
    Speaking Engagements
  • Leadership Transitions and International Law
    27 October 2016
    American Branch of the International Law Association & the International Law Students Association
    International Law Weekend
    New York, New York
    Speaker: Donald Francis Donovan
    Speaking Engagements
  • Arbitration in Africa: Recent and Future Developments
    4 February 2016
    Debevoise & Plimpton, International Council for Commercial Arbitration, New York International Arbitration Center
    Arbitration in Africa: Recent and Future Developments
    New York, New York
    Speaker: Donald Francis Donovan, Ina C. Popova
    Speaking Engagements
  • Fair and Equitable Treatment - What is its role, how has the standard evolved and has it gone too far? And where next?
    27 April 2015
    Global Arbitration Review
    GAR Live BITs
    Washington, D.C.
    Speaker: Donald Francis Donovan
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  • Opening remarks
    27 April 2015
    Global Arbitration Review
    GAR Live BITs

    Washington, D.C.
    Speaker: Donald Francis Donovan
    Speaking Engagements
  • Mass Claims and Multiparty Claims in Treaty Arbitration
    16 March 2015
    Columbia Law School
    The King's-Columbia Praelium 2015
    Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand, King's College London
    Speaker: Donald Francis Donovan
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