Courtney Lotfi
Courtney Lotfi focuses her practice on international arbitration and dispute resolution and has broad-based experience in the energy, construction and industrial engineering, life sciences, automotive, aerospace, and technology sectors.
Courtney began her international arbitration practice at Freshfields, where she represented a European energy company in a series of market-leading arbitrations, including a prominent price review arbitration resulting in the tribunal rewriting the purchase price formula for natural gas under a long-term, large-volume supply contract and a take-or-pay arbitration concerning the validity of certain contractual off-take provisions under EU competition law.
More recently, Courtney led or co-led the representation of Belgian and Hungarian energy companies in a post-M&A ICC arbitration with a Swiss energy company related to the sale of a coal-fired power plant; an international consortium in another ICC arbitration stemming from the construction of a liquified natural gas (LNG) re-gasification plant; and the contractor in a series of CEPANI arbitrations related to the construction of data centers.
She was also recently the lead lawyer advising a German power company on its shareholder rights and obligations under New York and Delaware laws and pursuant to a joint venture agreement, and was lead arbitration counsel representing a U.S. private equity group in an arbitration related to a management buyout and resulting arbitration and civil and criminal litigations.
Courtney is an enthusiastic supporter of developing young legal talent. She has developed bespoke training programs on arbitration and lectures on trial advocacy, rules of evidence, and civil procedure at the University of Bonn and on legal writing for arbitration at Humboldt University of Berlin.