Ank Santens is a partner in the international arbitration group of White & Case LLP, based in the New York office.

She has served as counsel in numerous international arbitrations, including under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA), and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.  These arbitrations have involved a variety of countries and legal systems (including in North America, Latin America, Asia, Western and Eastern Europe, and North Africa and the Middle East) and such diverse industries as infrastructure and construction, power, oil and gas, telecommunications, metals, banking, and consumer goods.

Ms. Santens also serves as an arbitrator.  She represents clients before U.S. federal and state courts in arbitration-related litigation, and has overseen complex multi-jurisdictional and parallel proceedings.  She has advised sovereign clients on a variety of dispute-related matters, including oil and gas concessions and the impact of land reform.

Ms. Santens regularly advises on the drafting of dispute resolution clauses in international contracts and has assisted several clients in amicable dispute resolution.  Although she works principally in English, she has advised clients in French, Spanish and Flemish/Dutch.

Ms. Santens practiced in White & Case’s Paris office from 2004 to 2006.  Before joining White & Case in 2000, she worked in the legal department, international division of a pharmaceutical company in New Jersey.