Biography: Commercial Litigation

C Ryan Reetz represents clients as trial counsel in international and domestic litigation, arbitration, and regulatory disputes. Mr Reetz has handled putative and actual class actions under securities, commodities, racketeering, real estate settlement practices, fair labour standards, and unfair and deceptive trade practice statutes, as well as various common-law claims. His litigation experience also includes disputes over the constitutionality of government policies, foreign sovereign immunity issues, shareholder derivative litigation, corporate and partnership disputes, joint venture litigation, trade secret and non-competition actions, merger and acquisition disputes, and product liability litigation, together with commercial, contractual, fiduciary-duty and misrepresentation claims across a wide range of industries. He has also handled administrative and regulatory litigation involving insurance ratemaking, insurance policy form exclusions, power plant siting, and land-use regulation. His arbitration experience includes international and domestic disputes before a variety of arbitral institutions and under a variety of arbitration rules and agreed procedures. He has handled arbitrations involving investment disputes, merger and acquisition claims, sales and licensing issues, control of corporations, insurance ratemaking, construction disputes, and employment issues, among others. He has also served as an arbitrator in ICC and ad hoc arbitration proceedings.

Mr Reetz has taught transnational civil litigation and arbitration as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law, arbitration skills at the Swiss Arbitration Academy, and trial skills through the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He also lectures and publishes frequently on topics such as international dispute resolution and trial advocacy, and serves with numerous professional organisations including the American Law Institute. He received his JD, summa cum laude, from Boston University School of Law, and his AB, magna cum laude, from Harvard University.