Anton is an associate in the Washington, DC office. He has experience in international commercial and investment arbitrations across a range of sectors, including petroleum and construction. He has worked on ad hoc arbitrations and arbitrations under various institutional rules. He also regularly provides legal support pro bono.
Prior to joining Three Crowns, Anton completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University, after clerking for the late Honorable Juan R. Torruella on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School (James Kent Scholar), as well as a Bachelor’s Degree (magna cum laude) and a Master’s Degree from Harvard University.
Anton was a visiting professor at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, where he taught international arbitration and gave a faculty presentation on issues relating to international arbitration. He was also selected by the International Law Institute to teach choice of law as part of an International Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Master Class.
His publications have appeared in “Pro-Arbitration” Revisited: A Tribute to Professor George Bermann from his Students over the Years (Juris Publishing, 2023), Reflections on International Arbitration – Essays in Honour of Professor George Bermann (Juris Publishing, 2022), and the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. He also co-authored the chapter “Three Notable Issues from the Venezuela Experience” in International Arbitration in Latin America: Energy and Natural Resources Disputes.
Anton regularly provides legal support pro bono. He assisted REDRESS in the case of Meriam Ibrahim before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, worked with Guernica 37 to bring claims on behalf victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity in a Middle Eastern State, and advised a people on possible paths to gaining independence from an Asian State.
He is admitted in New York and the District of Columbia. Anton’s languages include English, Dutch, Russian, German, French, and Spanish.
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Languages
English
Dutch
Russian
German
French
Spanish
acting for energy investors in two separate cost recovery disputes against a Central Asian state in connection with a profit-sharing agreement;
acting for energy investors in two separate tax disputes against a Central Asian state in connection with a profit-sharing agreement;
advising energy investors on potential environmental and regulatory disputes with a Central Asian state in connection with a profit-sharing agreement;
acting for an energy company in two separate disputes against Eastern European states in connection with the construction and operation of power plants; and
acting for Grupo Unidos por el Canal in annulment proceedings in U.S. federal court against an award arising out of the expansion of the Panama Canal; and
Advising the Inter-American Development Bank on potential new member countries.
- Ph.D., Harvard University
- J.D., Columbia Law School (James Kent Scholar)
- A.M., Harvard University
- A.B., Harvard College (magna cum laude)