Charles H. Camp Details
Education
- LL.M. in Taxation, The George Washington University Law School, 1983
- J.D., Wake Forest University Law School, 1982
- B.S. (Mathematics), Louisiana State University, 1979
Teaching
- International Negotiations, Adjunct Professor, The George Washington University Law School
- International Negotiations, Special Lecturer, Ministry of Economic Development, Monterrey, Mexico, Invited by Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Prior Law Firms
- Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
- Patton Boggs LLP
- Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP
Professional Memberships
- American Society of International Law (Chairman, Audit Committee; Ex Officio Member of Executive Council and Executive Committee; Past member, Program Committee)
- Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C. (Member, Board of Trustees, Development Committee, and Meridian at 50 Committee)
- Washington Foreign Law Society, Board of Advisors (Past President 2006)
- London Court of International Arbitration
- International Bar Association (Arbitration & International Litigation Committees)
- International Law Association, American Branch (Commercial Arbitration, and International Civil and Commercial Litigation Committees)
- Friends of the Law Library of Congress (Past President 2008 and Member, Board of Directors)
Bar Memberships
- District of Columbia Bar Association
- Louisiana State Bar Association
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
- United States Court of International Trade
- United States Court of Federal Claims
- United States Tax Court
Social Memberships
- Congressional Country Club, Bethesda, Maryland
Commitment
After practicing law at large international law firms for twenty years, Mr. Camp opened his own law firm in 2001 to focus exclusively upon international dispute resolution. Utilizing his extensive experience, Mr. Camp is able to provide extraordinary service and value to select domestic and international clients with complex international dispute resolution and debt recovery needs.
Since opening his new firm, Mr. Camp has been engaged to collect significant sums owed to foreign and domestic clients, including a major Kuwaiti bank and one of the largest Japanese trading companies, by major foreign and domestic companies and wealthy individuals (including several members of a Middle Eastern ruling family). Mr. Camp has collected significant sums from companies and individuals based in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Netherlands Antilles, and the United States. Likewise, on behalf of a Kuwaiti bank for which he previously had obtained a judgment in New York against the Central Bank of Iraq, Mr. Camp froze approximately $85 million of Iraqi funds held in another Kuwait bank’s secret branch in the Bahamas.
Mr. Camp currently is enforcing a significant judgment against the People’s Republic of China. In that case, which is on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Mr. Camp froze approximately $120 million of PRC funds held at PRC-owned banks in New York.
Mr. Camp also recently was counsel for a Kuwaiti bank in a $125 million lawsuit for fraud and breach of contract filed in the Supreme Court of New York, New York County against Maan Abdulwahed A. Al Sanea and Saad Trading, Contracting & Financial Services Co.
Prior to opening his own law firm, Mr. Camp successfully obtained a significant arbitral award against the Republic of Kazakhstan. The arbitration, prosecuted in Stockholm through the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, involved the Republic of Kazakhstan’s illegal expropriation of the rights to develop an oil field in Kazakhstan. The arbitral award was the first one ever obtained under the Bilateral Investment Treaty between the United States and Kazakhstan. As no formal discovery was permitted in the arbitration, Mr. Camp used his intelligence contacts to obtain the facts and documents necessary to win the arbitration and, following receipt of a favorable arbitral award, Mr. Camp used intelligence sources to facilitate payment of the award by Kazakhstan.
Prior to the three-year long Stockholm arbitration, Mr. Camp obtained nearly $1 billion in judgments against various Iraqi-state owned entities on behalf of twenty banks and financial institutions based in Bahrain, England, France, Kuwait, Switzerland, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates.