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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.
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, summa cum laude
B.A., Haverford College, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
District of Columbia
England and Wales (Registered Foreign Lawyer)
Law Clerk, The Hon. William H. Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States
Law Clerk, The Hon. Henry J. Friendly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Honorary Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing
Honorary Professor of Law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration
Member of the Advisory Board of African International Legal Awareness
Member of the Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Arbitration Law
Member of the American Law Institute
Member of the Board of Directors of ArbitrateAD
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of World Investment and Trade
Member of the Global Advisory Board of the New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC)
Member of the International Advisory Board of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC)
Member of the International Arbitration Committee of the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB)
Served as President of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Court of Arbitration for six years (2012-2019)
Served as co-chair of the ABA International Section, Committee on International Aspects of Litigation
Served on Advisory Committee of the ALI's Restatement of U.S. International Arbitration Law
Served on the Advisory Committee of the ALI Restatement of U.S. Foreign Relation Law (Fourth)
Served on the Board of Trustees of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law
Served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law
Taught at Harvard Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Stanford Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Sciences Po (Paris), Prince Sultan University (Riyadh) and National University of Singapore
Taught at Peking University School of Transnational Law, University of Virginia School of Law, University of Miami School of Law, University College London and the University of Arizona College of Law
Vice President of the American Society of International Law
German
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.
See moreServed 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.
See moreJ.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, summa cum laude
B.A., Haverford College, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
District of Columbia
England and Wales (Registered Foreign Lawyer)
Law Clerk, The Hon. William H. Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States
Law Clerk, The Hon. Henry J. Friendly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Honorary Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing
Honorary Professor of Law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration
Member of the Advisory Board of African International Legal Awareness
Member of the Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Arbitration Law
Member of the American Law Institute
Member of the Board of Directors of ArbitrateAD
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of World Investment and Trade
Member of the Global Advisory Board of the New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC)
Member of the International Advisory Board of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC)
Member of the International Arbitration Committee of the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB)
Served as President of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Court of Arbitration for six years (2012-2019)
Served as co-chair of the ABA International Section, Committee on International Aspects of Litigation
Served on Advisory Committee of the ALI's Restatement of U.S. International Arbitration Law
Served on the Advisory Committee of the ALI Restatement of U.S. Foreign Relation Law (Fourth)
Served on the Board of Trustees of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law
Served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law
Taught at Harvard Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Stanford Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Sciences Po (Paris), Prince Sultan University (Riyadh) and National University of Singapore
Taught at Peking University School of Transnational Law, University of Virginia School of Law, University of Miami School of Law, University College London and the University of Arizona College of Law
Vice President of the American Society of International Law
German