Rachel Thorn

Partner, Cooley LLP

Rachel Thorn focuses on international commercial arbitration, investment treaty disputes and cross-border litigation. She has extensive experience in disputes involving life sciences, technology, energy and extractive industry sectors, as well as post M&A disputes and disputes concerning joint ventures and long-term cooperation agreements, concession contracts, and offtake agreements. Her practice also includes defending, enforcing and challenging arbitral awards in the United States under the New York Convention, the ICSID Convention and the Federal Arbitration Act.  Rachel also regularly advises on structuring dispute resolution clauses in cross-border contracts, as well as investment structuring.

Rachel is a member of the New York City Bar Associations, International Commercial Disputes Committee and the ICC USA Arbitration Nominations Commission, as well as the WILEF Global Advisory Board.