Biography
Brody Greenwald is a partner based in Los Angeles, where he specializes in resolving complex, high-stakes disputes through international arbitration, mediation, and litigation. He is widely recognized as a preeminent practitioner in international arbitration by leading international and U.S. legal directories.
Brody represents clients across a broad range of commercial, construction, and investment arbitrations under all major institutional and ad hoc rules. His practice spans key industries including technology, mining, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, financial services, and sports. In addition to dispute resolution, he advises clients on drafting arbitration agreements and structuring investments to optimize dispute risk.
Brody's litigation practice focuses on the enforcement of arbitral awards and on data privacy matters under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). He counsels Meta Platforms in international civil litigation involving large-scale mass claims.
Brody is a prominent leader of California's international arbitration community. He is a founding member of California Arbitration (CalArb) and serves as its Second Vice President, with an active role on its Executive Committee and Board of Directors. He sits on the AAA-ICDR's International Panel of Arbitrators and is a long-standing member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA). He also serves on the planning and host committees for the 2028 ICCA Congress in San Francisco.
Brody is deeply committed to developing the next generation of international arbitration practitioners. Since 2020, he has served as a Senior Lecturing Fellow on international arbitration at Duke Law School. He also has lectured at the University of Chicago, Harvard, Penn, Berkeley, USC, and Miami. He speaks regularly at conferences around the world and contributes to leading publications including the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Bloomberg Law, LexisNexis, and prominent international arbitration journals.
Brody began his career in Washington, D.C., before relocating to Los Angeles to build out the Firm's arbitration capabilities on the West Coast and across the Pacific Rim.
Experience
Mining and metals
- ICSID arbitration about the Roşia Montană and Bucium gold and copper mining projects in Romania (Romania's BITs with Canada and the UK)
- Ad hoc arbitration about the Amantaytau and Khandiza gold and polymetallic mining projects in Uzbekistan (UNCITRAL rules, UK-Uzbekistan BIT)
- PCA arbitration about a potash mining project in Ethiopia (UNCITRAL rules, Netherlands-Ethiopia BIT)
- ICSID arbitration about a molybdenum processing joint venture in Uzbekistan (Israel-Uzbekistan BIT)
- Advising US and UK mining companies about a dispute over a uranium mining project in Kyrgyzstan
Technology and telecommunications
- International civil litigation for Meta Platforms
- Advising global tech companies on investment protection and dispute resolution
- Advising a company in the life sciences sector in California
- ICSID arbitration about a telecommunications license concession in Iraq (Kuwait-Iraq BIT)
- ICSID arbitration about a telecommunications license concession in Algeria (BLEU-Algeria BIT)
Infrastructure
- ICSID arbitration about expansion of the Panama Canal (Italy-Panama BIT)
- ICSID arbitration about two dredging projects in the Philippines (BLEU-Philippines BIT)
- ICSID arbitration about construction of an international airport terminal in the Philippines (Germany-Philippines BIT)
- ICC arbitration about maritime contracts in Southeast Africa
Manufacturing
- LCIA arbitrations under share purchase agreements and shareholder agreements about facilities to produce ammonia products in Uzbekistan (UNCITRAL rules)
- ICSID arbitration about two cement plants in Uzbekistan (Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan BIT)
- ICSID arbitration about textile companies in Uzbekistan (Netherlands-Uzbekistan BIT)
- ICSID arbitration about the privatization of industrial and chemical companies in Romania (US-Romania BIT)
- ICC arbitration about a pulp and paper mill in Brazil
Energy and power
- ICSID arbitration about a fuel distribution company in Bulgaria (Energy Charter Treaty)
- ICSID arbitrations about solar photovoltaic power plants in Bulgaria (Energy Charter Treaty)
- ICSID arbitration about electricity distribution in Guatemala (DR-CAFTA)
Financial Services and Cryptocurrency
- ICSID arbitration about financial services providers and cryptocurrency platform in Bulgaria (Switzerland-Bulgaria BIT)
- HKIAC arbitrations about the failure of the world's largest cryptocurrency trading platform
Other recent experience
- ICSID arbitration about a real estate development project in Bulgaria (Israel-Bulgaria BIT)
- ICSID arbitration about a shopping complex in Uzbekistan (Turkey-Uzbekistan BIT)
- ICSID arbitration about duty-free and retail services in Romania (UK-Romania BIT)
Lexology Index: Arbitration, "Highly Recommended"
The Legal 500 US, "Next Generation Partner" and "Recommended" in Dispute Resolution and International Arbitration
Lawdragon, "500 Leading Global Litigators" in International Arbitration and Litigation
Who's Who Legal, "Arbitration Future Leader - Partners"
Law360, "Rising Star" under age 40 in International Arbitration (2016)
Duke Law School, Senior Lecturing Fellow, Advocacy in International Arbitration, 2020-2026
Houston, We Have a Problem – Shifting Investor-State Arbitration to the US in the Wake of the Achmea Jurisprudence of the ECJ, American Bar Association International Law Section, Washington, D.C., May 13, 2026
Moderator, Between Transparency and Confidentiality: Walking the Disclosure Tightrope, California International Arbitration Week, San Francisco, March 9, 2026
Navigating Private International Arbitration Risk in the Age of Trade Wars, ABA Business Law Fall Meeting, Toronto, September 18, 2025
Emerging Issues in International Arbitration and Tech, UC Berkeley Law School, September 11, 2025
Moderator, Where East Meets West: Arbitration Strategies for the Pacific Rim, USC-JAMS International Arbitration Symposium, Los Angeles, September 10, 2025
The Art of Arbitrator Selection, California International Arbitration Week, Los Angeles, March 13, 2025
California Arbitration: California Conversations Episode 14 (video interview), January 13, 2025
Current Perspectives on U.S. and Brazilian Corporate Law and Capital Markets, Harvard Law School Brazilian Studies Association, New York, November 18, 2024
Location Location Location: a Jurisdiction-Based Lightning Round, GAR Live North America, New York, September 24, 2024
Moderator, International Sanctions and Arbitration, USC-JAMS International Arbitration Symposium, Los Angeles, September 13, 2024
The Resolution of Technology Disputes through International Arbitration, University of Pennsylvania Law School International Arbitration Conference, March 29, 2024
Moderator, ISDS Tech Disputes – an Incoming Wave?, GAR Live Technology Disputes, San Francisco, March 13, 2024
International Arbitration of Crypto-related Disputes, California International Arbitration Week, San Francisco, March 12, 2024
Assessing the Past, Envisioning the Future: International Investment Arbitration Law and Policy, Bocconi University, Milan, April 20, 2023
The Future of California Arbitration and Best Practices for Drafting Technology Agreement Disputes Clauses and Structuring Investments, Los Angeles, March 15, 2023
What Happens When Investments Are Tainted by Corruption: The Strategy Behind the Metal-Tech Case, Harvard International Arbitration Law Students Association, January 26, 2023
A Day in the Life of an International Arbitration Practitioner, USC Gould School of Law, November 2, 2022
Introduction to International Arbitration, University of Chicago Law School, April 6, 2022
Top 10 Tips on How to Better Match the Arbitration Process with Businesses' Expectations, ICC Young Arbitrators Forum, California International Arbitration Week, Los Angeles, March 16, 2022
Views from the Frontlines: Hot Topics in International Arbitration for 2021, Los Angeles, March 10, 2021
Proving Corruption – and Should It Be a Defense?, University of Pennsylvania Law School International Arbitration Conference, March 22, 2019
University of Miami School of Law, Guest Lecturer, Investment Arbitration, 2017 and 2019
Legal Business International Arbitration Summit, London, November 30, 2017
Salient Issues in International Commercial Arbitration, American University Washington College of Law Symposium, November 14, 2017
Conference on Society, Commerce, Dispute Resolution: Goals for Justice and Trade, Fordham University School of Law, May 8, 2015
Corrupting Investor-State Arbitration? The Role of Corruption Allegations in IIA Proceedings, February 20, 2015
Server Wars: The Future of Data Center Arbitration, republished in LexisNexis UK Practical Guide, August 20, 2025 (with Darryl Lew, Kate Perumal, and Efat Elsherif)
Latest Trends & Anticipated Developments in Mass Arbitration, Bloomberg Law, September 16, 2024 (with Darryl Lew and Clemency Wang)
Provisional Measures in International Investment Arbitration – Recent Developments, BCDR International Arbitration Review vol. 10 no. 2, Dec. 2023, Kluwer Arbitration (with Abby Cohen Smutny and Ayelet Hochman)
California International Arbitration Week 2023: The Future of California Arbitration and Best Practices for Drafting Technology Disputes Clauses, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, March 24, 2023 (with Yasmine Lahlou and Sarah Reynolds)
Losing sleep over the Midnight Clause: Drafting disputes provisions for cross-border technology agreements and foreign investments, Los Angeles Daily Journal, March 1, 2023 (with Sarah Reynolds and Yasmine Lahlou)
Do BITs and bytes bite? Investment treaty arbitration for technology disputes, July 26, 2022 ( with Abby Cohen Smutny, Darryl Lew, Ank Santens, Aalok Sharma, and Paula Henin)
Recent Findings on Technology in International Arbitration, Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center Newsletter, Fall 2021 (with Gabriela Lopez Stahl)
Addressing the Coming Wave of COVID-19 Fraud and Corruption Allegations in International Arbitration, April 14, 2020 (with Jennifer A. Ivers)
Addressing Corruption Allegations in International Arbitration, Brill Research Perspectives in International Investment Law and Arbitration, June 2019 (with Jennifer A. Ivers)
Proving Corruption in International Arbitration: Who Has the Burden and How Can it Be Met?, ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2015 (with Andrea J. Menaker)
The Viability of Corruption Defenses in Investment Arbitration When the State Does Not Prosecute, April 15, 2015
From World Duty Free to Metal-Tech: A Review of International Investment Treaty Arbitration Cases Involving Allegations of Corruption, Fraud, and Illegality, ICSID Review Foreign Investment Law Journal, 2014 (with Carolyn B. Lamm and Kristen M. Young)
A Review of International Investment Treaty Cases Involving Allegations of Corruption and Fraud and Parties from Central and Eastern Europe, Croatian Arbitration Yearbook, 2013 (with Carolyn B. Lamm and Kristen M. Young)
Courts Of Other Economic Communities: NAFTA, International Litigation in Practice: The Rules, Practice, and Jurisprudence of International Courts and Tribunals, 2012 (with Andrea J. Menaker)
