B. Ted Howes

Ted has particular experience representing clients in international arbitrations arising out M&A, joint venture, intellectual property licensing, private equity and supplier/distributor disputes. In one of his most noteworthy victories, Ted obtained a final arbitration award in Singapore ordering the PRC partner of a manufacturing joint venture to pay over $40 million in damages, including the reimbursement of all attorneys’ fees and costs, to the US partner, and then prevailed in enforcing the arbitration award before the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing. 

Ted is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Court for the mandate 2024-2027; the ICC’s Commission on Arbitration; the Advisory Board to the Institute for Transnational Arbitration; and the Board of Editors of the American Arbitration Association’s Dispute Resolution Journal. As a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he is also frequently appointed to serve as an international arbitrator.

Ted is fluent in English and conversational in French and Spanish.

• Awarding $36 million to a French avionics company (and denying $30 million in counterclaims against the same client) following an ICC arbitration held in New York, in a case involving breaches of representation and warranties in an aircraft-component company acquisition agreement.
• Ordering the Chinese partner of a textile joint venture to make the joint venture's books and records available for an audit by the US partner, in an arbitration conducted in Singapore under the rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre.
• Directing the minority shareholders of a Chinese company to transfer a majority of the company's stock to a US private equity client, following an arbitration hearing conducted in Hong Kong under the rules of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.
• Awarding of over $2.4 million to the US subsidiary of a German company, as well as an award of the legal fees incurred by the client, following an ICDR arbitration hearing in New York, in a case involving the breach of an indemnification provision in a stock purchase agreement.
• Dismissing claims totaling more than $10 million against a Korean client following an ICC arbitration held in London, in a case that involved the termination of a Korean distributorship by a major US apparel company.
• Ordering the Spanish seller of an environmental services company to pay a $5.5 million purchase price adjustment to the US purchaser, and dismissing all of the seller’s counterclaims, following a hearing conducted in New York under the ICC Rules of Arbitration.
• Dismissing claims in excess of $4.5 million asserted by a French glassware distributor against a New Jersey glassware manufacturer, as well as the award of all attorneys’ fees and costs, following a week-long ICC arbitration in Zurich, Switzerland.