Gretta Walters

Gretta Walters is a partner at Chaffetz Lindsey LLP in New York, where she serves as both arbitrator and counsel in commercial and investment disputes across international arbitration and U.S. state and federal courts. Her work spans construction and infrastructure, energy, licensing, shipping, banking and finance, M&A, securities, employment, and pharmaceutical matters, under rules including the ICC, ICDR, LCIA, SCC, SIAC, AAA, and UNCITRAL.

She is a co-author of A Guide to the ICDR International Arbitration Rules (3rd ed., OUP 2026) and of Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards and Judgments in New York (Kluwer 2018). She has contributed chapters to the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of International Commercial Arbitration, U.S. Supreme Court Precedents on Arbitration, and Investment Arbitration and Climate Change, along with articles in the Journal of International Arbitration and the ARIAS U.S. Quarterly.

Gretta has taught international commercial arbitration and the CISG as an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law since 2013, and previously at Stockholm University. She holds an LL.M. from Stockholm University and a J.D., magna cum laude, from American University Washington College of Law. She chairs the New York City Bar's Arbitration Committee.