Alexander Hinckley advises and advocates for clients in a wide range of commercial lawsuits, from multi-billion-dollar international disputes to sensitive corporate disputes.  With a background in complex commercial litigation, real estate, and international arbitration, he has represented domestic and multinational clients before state and federal courts as well as AAA, ICSID, SIAC, and ad hoc tribunals.  His practice includes complex commercial disputes, title disputes, investor-state arbitrations under bilateral investment treaties, CISG disputes, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards in the U.S. and Singapore, commercial torts (e.g., breach of fiduciary duty and tortious interference with contract), partnership disputes, and complex intellectual property litigation.

Representative Matters:

• Alexander was the primary attorney for several hotel ownership disputes. When the client hired Alexander, the client had a recent $4 million default judgment against him. By the end of the dispute, Alexander negotiated a multiparty settlement in which other parties agreed to release his client from the judgment and pay approximately $500,000 in attorney’s fees.
• Alexander was part of a three-lawyer team that, in 2023, won a $180 million award for two hotel and casino owners in a Macau-seated ICC arbitration. In that case, Alexander also briefed and won against bifurcation, for interim measures (comparable to TROs), and on an unsettled and extremely complex question of res judicata that required testimony from the world’s leading experts in international arbitration.
• Alexander represented Chinese and Dutch investors in four investment treaty arbitrations under UNCITRAL and ICSID(AF) Rules against a Southeast Asian State. He provided all-around support at the merits hearings in Singapore, handled discovery and research, drafted memorials, witness statements, and expert reports.
• Alexander represented a Canadian respondent in AAA international arbitration, in which he was the primary attorney formulating a counterclaim for tortious interference with contract after uncovering critical communications, leading to a new hearing and expanding counterclaim damages from $0.3 to $12 million. The parties settled for a nominal sum shortly thereafter.

Publications:

Speaker and Author: Compliance with Local Law Clauses and Original Intent – A Problematic Evolution? in I. Laird et al. (eds), 12 Inv. Treaty Arb. and Int’l. Law 12 (Nov. 2018): spoke on panel of arbitrators and practitioners addressing legality clauses in investment treaties at 12th Annual JURIS Conference on Investment Treaty Arbitration (Washington, D.C.)

Author: Multiple proceedings, multiple parties, and international arbitration: what a tangled web we weave, 58 Rev. de Arb. e Med., pp. 437-45 (July-September 2018)

Eastern District of Texas

State Bar of Texas

J.D., Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, 2015, cum laude

B.A., Furman University, 2012, cum laude