Charles Kotuby is an international law counsel who represents multinational corporations in complex international disputes. He has acted in international arbitrations and litigations across a range of sectors and industries, including oil and gas, aviation, mining, and other extractive projects.

His practice is focused on investment arbitration, litigation involving foreign sovereigns and novel issues of public and private international law. He has appeared as counsel in international matters before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Court of Justice of the European Union, ICSID, and UNCITRAL tribunals. Kotuby has been counsel to Chevron in its multibillion dollar dispute in Ecuador and is currently representing a number of Canadian mining clients with treaty-based claims against the Republic of Kazakhstan. He also advises clients on treaty rights, investment protections, international border, and maritime issues.

Kotuby is a Fellow in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the United States Government Delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group III on Reforms to Investor-State Dispute Settlement and the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on Private International Law.  He is a co-author of General Principles of Law and International Due Process, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2017.  Before entering private practice, he was a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph F. Weis Jr, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, an attorney at the Hague Conference for Private International Law and a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Private International Law in Hamburg, Germany.