Our Litigator of the Week is Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s Karl Stern—managing partner of the firm’s Houston office and co-head of its energy practice. Stern led a team winning a $720 million arbitration award for client Vantage Deepwater in a fight stemming from a canceled drilling contract with state-owned Brazilian oil company Petrobras.

After the award was issued last year, Petrobras challenged it in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, arguing that one of the arbitrators had a conflict of interest. The company also said the contract was procured through bribery

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