Zachary Kady is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of Gibson Dunn’s Litigation and International Arbitration Practice Groups.

Mr. Kady has extensive experience in both international commercial arbitrations and investor-state arbitrations. He has represented clients before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), JAMS, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). Mr. Kady’s clients span all industries and he has particular experience in complex contractual disputes as well as cases relating to mining and energy projects. Mr. Kady has significant experience pursuing complex, creative, multi-jurisdictional strategies for the enforcement of arbitral awards. Mr. Kady also regularly advises clients on the risks, merits, and optimal strategies for pursuing potential business decisions, litigation, or arbitration.

In addition to arbitration work, Mr. Kady has handled several domestic litigation disputes where he represents clients from various industries, including insurance, energy technology, media, and music/entertainment.  Mr. Kady also devotes significant time to pro bono projects working on behalf of aggrieved inmates and immigrants seeking asylum or other protections from removal.

Mr. Kady earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 2014 from the Georgetown University Law Center where he was also a member of the Immigration Law Journal and the Barrister’s Council Moot Court Team, twice competing in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and later acting as team advisor.  He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Affairs from The George Washington University in 2010.

Mr. Kady is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Publications include:

• Author, “Who Decides Where You’re Born? Zivotofsky v. Clinton and the Recognition of Foreign States,” Georgetown Immigr. L.J. 667 (2012).