Fountain Court Chambers is pleased to welcome Eric Schwartz as a Door tenant. Eric is an American and French international arbitration lawyer who after a 40-year legal career, now practices independently as an international arbitrator. Prior to joining Fountain Court Chambers, Eric was (until December 2016) a senior partner in the international arbitration practice group of King & Spalding in New York and Paris, having for many years previously been a Paris-based partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.  From 1992-1996, he served as Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

Eric has also been listed as a leading international arbitration lawyer in every one of the Chambers Global and Chambers Europe guides to leading business lawyers since the first global guide was published in 1999.