When litigation spills across multiple jurisdictions, clients rely on Catherine Bratic’s knowledge of both civil and common law, and her experience managing complex, high-value, international disputes, to develop and implement a coordinated, global strategy to get clients back to business. She provides strategic and practical guidance to global clients in the energy and technology sectors as well as to states and state-owned entities, helping them prevent disputes, negotiate solutions, and – when all else fails – pursue legal action.

Catherine is adept at navigating cross-cultural issues that arise in international disputes, drawing on her professional experience working at the legal department of UNESCO in Paris, clerking for the Honorable Lee H. Rosenthal (Chief Judge, Southern District of Texas), and first-chairing arbitrations and federal court proceedings over the past decade. Catherine is praised by her clients as “a star in the Houston arbitration community and beyond,” and has achieved dozens of successful multi-million- and multi-billion-dollar arbitral awards, settlements, and court judgments for her clients.