NEWPORT GLOBAL SUMMIT ADVISORY BOARD

Charles H. Camp

Law Offices of Charles H. Camp, P.C.

For over thirty-five years, Mr. Camp’s international law practice has focused on litigating, arbitrating and negotiating the resolution of complex international commercial disputes, including recovering significant debts owed by foreign interests to foreign and domestic clients.  Following practicing law at large international law firms for twenty years, Mr. Camp opened his own firm in October 2002 to focus exclusively on international dispute resolution. 

For many years, Mr. Camp represented important Taiwanese clients seeking to end statelessness for the people of Taiwan.   Mr. Camp also recently was lead counsel in a multi-billion dollar arbitration seated in Paris on behalf of an American investor involving the building, operating, and transfer of three thermal power plants in Southeast Asia.  Mr. Camp also recently was lead counsel in an ICC arbitration in London on behalf of a U.S. healthcare company against a publicly held Southeast Asia and a Middle Eastern company.  Mr. Camp has obtained judgments against various Iraqi-state-owned entities on behalf of twenty banks and financial institutions based in Bahrain, England, France, Kuwait, Switzerland, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates.  Most recently, Mr. Camp obtained a US$90 Million RICO judgment from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of 145 Colombian clients.  Mr. Camp currently is lead counsel on a number of significant litigations, including a lawsuit recently filed on behalf of a large client in Mexico that purchased over a hundred heavy trucks that were incapable of operating in Mexico as the truck manufacturer falsely represented they could operate.

In addition, Mr. Camp regularly collects significant sums owed to his foreign and domestic clients. Mr. Camp has collected significant sums from companies and individuals based in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Netherlands Antilles, and the United States, and froze a very significant sum of Iraqi funds hidden in the Bahamas.  Mr. Camp recently settled a significant judgment against the People’s Republic of China and currently is leading the enforcement of large judgments against BVI and UK companies operating out of the PRC, and a U.S. citizen who secretly resided in South Africa until his death.  

Since 2005, every Fall and Spring semester Mr. Camp has taught International Negotiations at George Washington University Law School and has taught International Negotiations seminars at Tecnológico de Monterrey, the largest private university in Mexico, and MBA students at LSU.

Mr. Camp served as a member of Meridian International Center’s Board of Trustees, Executive Committee, Compensation Committee, Audit Committee, and Chair of its Governance and Nominating Committee; and is a past president of the Washington Foreign Law Society, Friends of the Law Library of Congress, and the Georgetown Business Association.