Gary Born is the Chair of the International Arbitration Practice Group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. He is widely regarded as the world’s preeminent authority on international commercial arbitration and international litigation. He has been ranked for the past 20 years as one of the world’s leading international arbitration practitioners and the leading arbitration practitioner in London. Mr. Born has served as counsel in more than 675 international arbitrations, including several of the largest arbitrations in ICC and ad hoc history, and has sat as arbitrator in more than 250 institutional and ad hoc arbitrations. He also recently served as President of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Court of Arbitration.
Mr. Born has represented European, US, Asian and other companies in arbitrations under all leading institutional rules (ICC, LCIA, AAA, Vienna, Stockholm, ICSID) and in ad hoc arbitrations in all leading international seats (London, Paris, Geneva/Zurich, Vienna, Stockholm, New York, Washington, Singapore). He has particular experience in public international law and state-related disputes, oil and gas, joint venture, investor-state, M&A, investment banking and other financial services, project finance, energy, intellectual property and insurance disputes.
Mr. Born is the author of International Commercial Arbitration (3rd ed. Kluwer 2021), the pre-eminent treatise in the field, as well as International Arbitration: Law and Practice (3rd ed. Kluwer 2021) and a number of other notable works on international dispute resolution.
Mr. Born is ranked by peers and clients as one of the leading international arbitration practitioners in the world. He is the only lawyer globally to achieve “Star” status for international arbitration in Chambers and Partners guides. Chambers and Partners also recognized him for his “Outstanding Contribution to the Legal Profession,” describing him as the world’s foremost authority on international arbitration and litigation, “in a class of his own” and “revered around the world for his work on international commercial and investor arbitration.” Among other accolades, he received the Global Arbitration Review’s inaugural “Advocate of the Year” award and has been named several times as “Best International Arbitration Practitioner” by Client Choice and “London Lawyer of the Year” for international arbitration by Best Lawyers. Legal Media Group named him the “World’s Best International Litigator.”