TRW Recognized Among the World’s Leading International Arbitration Firms in the GAR 100 (2025)

Prepared by Tahmidur Remura Wahid (TRW) Law Firm — Dhaka • Dubai • London

TRW is delighted to announce its inclusion in the 2025 edition of the Global Arbitration Review (GAR) 100, the annual guide to the world’s top international arbitration practices. The recognition reflects TRW’s consistent results across complex, high-value disputes, its client-first culture, and a global practice that spans commercial and investor-state arbitration.

This milestone underscores our long-standing commitment to combining world-class advocacy with pragmatic strategy and cost discipline. It also reflects the trust of our clients across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and North America who routinely turn to TRW for disputes that cross borders, industries, and legal systems.

If you’d like to discuss a live matter or request a conflict-free assessment within 24 hours, please visit International Arbitration or Contact TRW.

What the GAR 100 Recognition Signals

The GAR 100 is widely regarded as the definitive, data-driven survey of leading arbitration firms. Rankings reflect a rigorous appraisal of:

• Track record: Outcomes in recent arbitrations under major rules (ICC, LCIA, SIAC, DIAC, HKIAC, SCC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, LMAA, among others).
• Client feedback: Independent references from in-house teams and dispute resolution leads.
• Team depth: Advocacy strength, sector fluency, and multilingual capability.
• Global footprint: Ability to run cases seamlessly across seats, languages, and time zones.

TRW’s place in the 2025 GAR 100 validates our core proposition: elite advocacy with transparent economics, executed by a team that blends common- and civil-law experience with sector-specific know-how.

Learn more about our approach here: International Arbitration.

Why Clients Choose TRW for International Arbitration

1) Advocacy that moves the needle

We conduct our own advocacy from the outset. That means your strategy isn’t fragmented between case theory and courtroom execution. It also means tighter timelines, coherent messaging, and reduced cost.

2) Enforcement thinking from Day One

A good award is only valuable if it converts to cash or relief. We design cases with enforcement at the center—mapping counterparty assets, receivables, banking relationships, and execution paths across jurisdictions. See Enforcement of Arbitral Awards.

3) Sector fluency

From energy and infrastructure to financial services, TMT, healthcare, maritime, and consumer goods, TRW teams pair arbitration experience with genuine sector knowledge, ensuring that evidence, experts, and damages models are persuasive to tribunals.

4) Global, multilingual delivery

With Dhaka, Dubai, and London as anchors, TRW operates seamlessly across time zones. Our lawyers work in English and additional regional languages, and we’re used to mixed law backgrounds on tribunals and opposing counsel.

5) Transparent, value-driven fees

We align budgets with inflection points that decide cases—focused written advocacy, expert clarity, targeted document production, and efficient hearings—without wasteful process.

To speak with our team, visit Contact TRW.

Our Year in Review (Highlights)

While specific client names are often confidential, the matters below illustrate the scale and diversity of disputes handled by TRW over the last cycle:

• Construction & Energy (Middle East): Acting for a specialist subcontractor in an ICC arbitration seated in London concerning a major refinery project in Oman. Dispute centered on unpaid invoices, retention, delay and disruption, and economic duress arising from unilateral scope changes. The matter settled on favorable terms before the merits hearing following targeted document production and a tribunal-endorsed timetable. See Construction Arbitration.
• Financial Services (Asia–US corridor): Defending multiple Asian respondents in an ICDR arbitration governed by New York law. The claimant pursued the extension of the arbitration clause to non-signatories through agency and alter-ego theories. TRW’s jurisdictional strategy and procedural posture resulted in no payment liability for the respondents.
• Technology & Distribution (South Asia): SIAC arbitration involving termination rights, performance metrics, and price-review mechanics in a long-term distribution agreement. Achieved phased relief and a structured settlement that stabilized the client’s supply chain.
• Shareholder & JV Disputes (EU–MENA): LCIA arbitration over earn-out mechanics, MAC clauses, and competing valuation models. The tribunal adopted TRW’s issue sequencing, streamlining expert work and reducing hearing time by half.
• Investor-State Advisory: Treaty structuring and pre-dispute counseling for investors entering energy and telecom verticals in emerging markets, with emphasis on most-favoured nation (MFN) leverage and umbrella clause coverage.

For a more detailed discussion of representative matters, start here: International Arbitration.

How We Win Difficult Cases: The TRW Method

Early case architecture

• Arbitration agreement mapping: Multi-contract and multi-party logic, joinder and consolidation pathways.
• Asset-first design: Enforcement routes plotted alongside claim theory.
• Arbitrator intelligence: Shortlists tailored to the dispute’s legal and technical profile.

Evidence that persuades

• Measured-mile and windows analysis for construction delay.
• Valuation and damages aligned with tribunal expectations, not just academic models.
• Document discipline: Clear evidentiary spines; targeted, material document production instead of sprawling discovery.

Hearing engineering

• Chess-clock time management, expert hot-tubbing where appropriate, and hybrid hearings that respect time zones and budgets.
• Post-hearing precision: Briefs that link transcript page/line to outcomes, paired with proportionate and well-evidenced costs submissions.

Settlement as a deliberate design

• We build off-ramps into the timetable—neutral quantum sessions, without-prejudice windows, and staged security—so that clients can settle on advantageous terms without sacrificing momentum.

If you want us to pressure-test a live strategy, reach out via Contact TRW.

What Clients Say (Selected Themes)

• “Clarity at speed”—TRW’s pleadings and expert briefs made it easy to make decisions internally.
• “Leverage without theatrics”—pressure points were identified early; settlement followed a predictable path.
• “Costs aligned with outcomes”—budgets tracked the issues that mattered and were revised only when the case geometry changed.

To discuss references with similar fact patterns, use Contact TRW.

Our Team

TRW’s arbitration group includes counsel qualified across multiple jurisdictions, with deep training in both common-law and civil-law systems. Team members have acted as advocates and tribunal secretaries, and some regularly sit as arbitrators, offering a 360° view of what convinces a tribunal.

Explore our people: Our Lawyers.
Explore our global disputes practice: International Arbitration.

Looking Ahead: Priorities for 2025–2026

• Enforcement innovation: Continued development of cross-border pathways in South Asia and the Gulf, leveraging our Dhaka–Dubai–London platform.
• Data-secure proceedings: Expanded cybersecurity protocols for evidence sharing; enhanced confidentiality rings for high-sensitivity documents.
• Arbitrator pipeline: Ongoing investment in arbitrator intelligence and availability tracking to accelerate tribunal constitution and award issuance.
• Sector depth: Additional capability in energy transition, digital infrastructure, life sciences, and fintech disputes.

If you’d like a short, tailored briefing for your sector or region, visit Contact TRW.

Practical Resources from TRW

• Step-by-Step: ICC Arbitration — a business-savvy walkthrough of filings, ToR, document production, hearings, and costs: ICC Arbitration at TRW.
• Construction Arbitration — delay and disruption, quantum, and claim governance: Construction Arbitration.
• Award Enforcement — turning paper into payment: Enforcement of Arbitral Awards.

A Note of Thanks

We are grateful to our clients for their trust, to our co-counsel and experts for their partnership, and to the broader arbitration community for collegiality and critique—both sharpen our work. TRW’s place in the GAR 100 (2025) is, above all, a recognition of our clients’ boldness and our team’s daily commitment to clarity, precision, and results.

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TRW Contact & Offices

Tahmidur Remura Wahid (TRW) Law Firm — International Arbitration & Enforcement
Dhaka • Dubai • London

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