Gary Born

• Served as lead counsel and advocate for teams which obtained favorable awards or settlements in a number of international arbitrations, including ICC arbitrations seated in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, São Paulo, Paris and New York.
• Served as lead counsel and advocate in a WIPO arbitration seated in Geneva, an ad hoc investment arbitration seated in Singapore, an arbitration seated in Geneva, an ICSID arbitration, and several LCIA arbitrations seated in London.
• Represented a major European telecommunications company in several of the largest arbitrations in ICC history.
• Represented states and corporate parties in disputes involving public international law disputes.

As lead counsel and advocate

• Served as lead counsel in WIPO arbitration seated in Geneva.
• Served as lead counsel in ad hoc investment arbitration seated in Singapore, an arbitration seated in Geneva, and an ICSID arbitration.
• Served as lead counsel in several LCIA arbitrations seated in London.
• Represented a leading U.S. private equity firm in an ICC arbitration in São Paulo.
• Represented a Chinese insurance company in an ICC arbitration seated in Hong Kong.
• Represented a Southeast Asian energy company in multiple ICC and other arbitrations seated in Singapore.
• Represented a major US energy company in an LCIA arbitration over offshore oil rights seated in London.
• Represented a European company in a fast-track arbitration in Zurich.
• Represented a major industrial group in an ad hoc insurance arbitration seated in London.
• Represented a leading European oil company in an ICC arbitration seated in London.
• Represented a private equity firm in an ICC arbitration seated in Geneva.
• Represented a U.S. insurance company in an M&A arbitration seated in Paris.
• Represented a major multinational capital equipment manufacturer in institutional and other arbitrations in multiple European fora arising from power plant projects.

Representing states and corporate parties in disputes involving public international law

• Represented The Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army in the historic Abyei arbitration (more information on Abyei arbitration).
• Represented Eritrea in an ad hoc arbitration against Yemen.
• Represented private parties in controversies under various bilateral investment treaties.
• Represented major foundation in an ad hoc arbitration against a European state raising novel issues of public international law.

Advising on significant litigation matters

• Represented various European entities in the Holocaust Assets and Forced Labor litigations.
• Defended a major U.S. petroleum company against efforts to enforce purported foreign judgments in the United States and testimony as an expert witness in a number of proceedings in Swedish, English, U.S., Japanese and other courts.

Gary Born has been ranked for more than 25 years as one of the world’s premier international arbitration advocates. He has led more than 750 arbitrations, including four of the largest ICC cases and several of the most significant ad hoc proceedings in recent years. Clients and competitors from around the world have described him as “awesome”, “inimitable”, “utterly phenomenal”, “stellar”, “spectacular”, “unexcelled”, “emblematic”, “brilliant” and “in a league of his own”, praising him as “easily the most capable disputes lawyers alive today”.

Gary has acted as lead counsel for U.S., Asian, European, Latin American and other companies, as well as financial institutions and sovereign entities, in high-value cross-border disputes under all major institutional arbitration rules and in many national courts worldwide. He is particularly recognized for his oral advocacy in international arbitral proceedings (see highlights of Gary’s advocacy in Government of Sudan v. Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (Abyei arbitration).

Gary is widely regarded as the world's pre-eminent authority on international commercial arbitration and international litigation. He is the author of International Commercial Arbitration (3d ed. 2021), the leading text in the field, an authoritative 5,000-page work that provides the most comprehensive available commentary on all aspects of the international commercial arbitration process. The treatise has been widely cited by national courts and arbitral tribunals, including by Supreme Courts in the U.S., UK, Canada, India, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Qatar, the UAE, the BVI, the DIFC and elsewhere. Gary is also the author of multiple other works on international commercial, investment arbitration and international litigation.

In addition to acting as counsel, Gary has been appointed as arbitrator in more than 275 arbitrations and regularly serves as an expert witness, including on aspects of international law and U.S. private international law in foreign proceedings.