Rose Marie Wong

Rose Marie Wong focuses her practice on international arbitration, international litigation, and litigation matters. Ms. Wong has experience handling commercial and investor-State disputes under the ICSID, ICDR, UNCITRAL, and CPR Rules.  She has also handled U.S. court proceedings in connection with clients’ arbitral disputes, particularly enforcement actions, petitions for discoverable materials and testimony, and motions to intervene in pending United States court cases.  

She has extensive experience representing clients in the information technology sector, specifically in regards to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and its governance of the domain name industry. She has represented clients in relation to various ICANN-specific accountability mechanisms, including Documentary Information Disclosure Policy Requests, Reconsideration Requests, and ICANN’s own international arbitration process: the Independent Review Process. 

Ms. Wong also maintains an active pro bono practice by representing individuals facing violations of their civil rights and organizations advocating for policy change. As part of her practice, she has helped clients submit numerous amicus curiae briefs before the United States Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and the Supreme Court of New Jersey. In recognition of her pro bono work representing an environmental group in an appeal of a state agency’s approval of a natural gas pipeline through a conservation area, Ms. Wong received Dechert’s 2017 Samuel E. Klein Pro Bono Award.

Ms. Wong was a Dechert summer associate in 2014.  

Prior to joining Dechert, she served as a research assistant to international arbitrator John Y. Gotanda.