Welcome to Dispute Resolution Around the World
An Online Resource for Resolving Commercial Disputes

How a company handles disputes can have a significant impact on both its financial performance and its reputation. It is also an essential part of good risk management to anticipate disputes by ensuring that appropriate and well-drafted dispute resolution clauses are incorporated in all contracts.

Baker & McKenzie developed Dispute Resolution Around the World to help organizations engaged in international commerce devise the most effective dispute resolution strategies. This site will help you gain:

• A basic knowledge of the structure of the legal profession and the court system in different countries
• An understanding of the courts’ views of alternative dispute resolution and arbitration, disclosure of documents, how judgments and awards are enforced and how costs are apportioned between winning and losing parties
• An idea of the time and costs that different countries will demand of parties to litigation

Whether you are interested in drafting an appropriate dispute resolution clause for a contract between parties in Europe or in how a court in Vietnam or Argentina would enforce a contractual provision or court award, we hope that you will find this site a useful starting point.

Please use the links on the left to learn more about the country or region of interest to you.