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Mr. Goldstein in collaboration with Canadian co-counsel recently secured enforcement in British Columbia of a US $10 million award made in New York in favor of Mr. Goldstein’s US client against a Thailand rare earth metals merchant and his Cayman Islands-based holding company. Canadian commentators have observed that the B.C. judgment confirming the award marks a significant refinement of Canadian law concerning arbitral jurisdiction over non-signatories to the arbitration agreement.

Mr. Goldstein presently sits as a co-arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations in the finance and banking sector, in high value disputes arising out of the difficulties experienced in the financial sector in 2008.

Mr. Goldstein currently co-chairs the International Mediation Committee in the International Section of the American Bar Association (ABA). (He is former co-chair and present Senior Advisor to the Arbitration Committee of that ABA Section). On February 25 in New York, Mr. Goldstein and a panel of experts will reprise a program on cross-cultural mediation first presented in April 2013 at the ABA. International Section’s Spring Meeting. The sponsoring organization of the February 25 presentation is the Greater New York chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution. On April 3, 2014, Mr. Goldstein will chair another panel on international mediation at the ABA International Section’s Spring Meeting in New York. This program will address the utility of negotiation strategies in global geopolitical disputes for mediation of transnational commercial disputes.

On April 24, 2013, Mr. Goldstein was selected to the 2013 New York Metro Super Lawyers list. This is stated to be “an honor reserved for those who exhibit excellence in practice.” Information about the selection process can be found at www.superlawyers.com/about/selection_process.html.

Mr. Goldstein was the program chair of a program on Cross-Cultural Aspects of International Mediation, presented April 24, 2013 in Washington, D.C. at the Spring Meeting of the ABA Section of International Law. Mr. Goldstein is the co-chair of the Section’s International Mediation Committee.

Mr. Goldstein completed the one-mile course and was among the leading fund-raisers in the Swim Across America open-water swim event held July 2 in Amagansett, New York. Proceeds of the event benefit Fighting Chance, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and cancer research facilities on Long Island.

On July 2, 2011, Mr. Goldstein, a distance swimmer and triathelete, will participate in the Swim Across America event in Amagansett, New York to raise funds forcancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering and other leading cancer research facilities.

To make donations in support of Mr. Goldstein’s one-mile swim, click on this link.

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A recent post from Mr. Goldstein’s Arbitration Commentaries was cited and relied upon in an opinion issued June 1 by federal district judge Cameron McGowan Currie in Columbia, South Carolina. Judge Currie’s decision denied a motion to enjoin arbitration, and not only cited, but annexed to the opinion the full text of, Mr. Goldstein’s March 29, 2011 Commentary entitled “An FAA Cause of Action to Enjoin Arbitration: Is it Necessary?” (Rodarte v. FINRA, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 59636 at *13 n.11 (D.S.C. June 1, 2011)).

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