Stein Ray LLP represents clients in high-stakes international arbitrations administered by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), other organizations, and in self-administered proceedings around the world. Stein Ray’s experience in large-scale complex international arbitration proceedings is rivaled by no other firm focused on the construction industry.  Some of the firm’s international arbitration engagements include the following:

In 2023, Stein ray was retained to represent a design-build consortium of three leading global EPCM firms in a series of complex defect, delay, and disruption disputes involving a PPP project to design, build, and maintain a municipal light rail system in a large Canadian city.

In 2022, Stein Ray was retained to represent a consortium of three leading EPCM firms in a dispute involving a PPP contract to design, construct, operate, and maintain a $4.5 billion transnational bridge connecting the United States and Canada.

In 2021, Stein Ray was selected to represent the prime contractor, a joint venture between one of the largest American and one of the largest Japanese EPCM firms, in a series of disputes, venued in London and Vancouver, involving one the largest LNG processing facilities in the world located in Western Canada.  The disputes involved complex delay, disruption, and cost growth claims, and a series of novel legal issues under English law.

In 2020, Stein Ray was selected to represent a consortium led by two of the world’s largest EPCM firms in a series of London-venued disputes arising out of FEED, engineering, procurement, and construction services on a $45 billion Caspian Basin oilfield expansion project in a country in Central Asia.

In 2019, Stein Ray was retained to represent one of Europe’s largest construction firms in a dispute involving the construction of a new $12 billion hydroelectric power plant in Atlantic Canada, on which the client served as a principal contractor.  Each side’s claims against the other exceed $300 million and involve allegations of delay, disruption, and wrongful termination.

In 2018, Stein Ray has been retained to be lead counsel in prosecution of two ICC arbitrations related to the construction of the new Mexico City International Airport with stakes combined of $70 million (US).  Stein Ray was also retained defend a global engineering firm in a dispute involving the design and construction of a $5 billion chemical plant in Central Canada involving claims in excess of $700 million.

In 2017, Stein Ray was retained to defend and prosecute multi-million dollar claims in an international arbitration involving a single source organic waste processing facility in Eastern Canada and to represent an international industrial process technology, and an equipment vendor in a dispute with a large Australian mining concern involving a new facility to process tailings water.

In 2016, Stein Ray took on a claim and defense from disrupted progress of a Mexican pipeline.

In 2015, Stein Ray defended a global EPCM Contractor against a pair of claims arising from a first-of-its-kind nickel and cobalt mine and mineral processing facility in Eastern Canada with combined stakes exceeding $1 billion (US).

In 2014, Stein Ray tried three ICC arbitrations in connection with related projects with combined claims in excess of $500 million.

In 2012, Stein Ray began representation of an international mining consortium in connection with nearly one-half billion dollars in claims arising from a project in Madagascar.

In 2010, a major refiner and a company with international mining interests requested Stein Ray’s assistance with major claims amounting to nearly one half billion dollars

In 2007, Stein Ray was selected to defend an owner from contractor claims involving a hotel in Armenia.

In 2003, Stein Ray was selected by ownership to represent a power plant in Guatemala involving a $80 million dollar dispute.