Patrick W. Pearsall is a partner and Global Co-Chair of the Gibson Dunn�s Geopolitical Strategy and International Law practice. He advises sovereign states, multinational corporations and other stakeholders on complex international arbitration, public international law and geopolitical risk matters. Patrick�s practice spans high-stakes investor-state and commercial disputes under all major arbitral rules, and he regularly guides clients through crisis-driven legal challenges. Before joining Gibson Dunn, he served for nearly a decade at the U.S. State Department, where he was the Chief of Investment Arbitration and principal legal counsel on energy and natural resource diplomacy.