International arbitration (chairman, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator, counsel or expert in more than 100 international arbitrations)
International business transactions including company law, acquisitions, joint ventures, contracts, licenses, energy and insurance
European Union competition law
Professional Activities
US member, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration (2000 – 2006)
Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) Panel of Distinguished International Mediators
ICC Commission on International Arbitration (chair, United States Council for International Business (USCIB) Expatriate Arbitration Subcommittee; past member of working parties and chairman of forum)
CPR, member of European Advisory Board
Member, College of Commercial Arbitrators (US)
Member, Advisory Committee to French Ministry of Justice on reform of French business law
Member of leading arbitration associations; for example, American Arbitration Association (AAA), International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), USCIB, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Swedish Arbitration Association (SAA), German Institute of Arbitration (DIS), French Comité de l'Arbitrage, International Arbitration Institute (IAI)
On panels of leading arbitration institutions; for example, USCIB, ICDR, LCIA, ASA, DIS, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB)
Frequent speaker at conferences and author of articles on arbitration
Recognition
Named Arbitrator of the Year 2005 by Décideurs Juridiques (leading French legal Journal)
Ranked among leading arbitrators in Euromoney’s Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration; Chambers Global Guide; Who’s Who Legal; Décideurs Juridiques Rankings; PLC Handbook on Dispute Resolution; Legal Business European Experts Report
Listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who's Who in America and Who’s Who in Law
Highlighted Publications
Arbitration Unlimited (recent French case analysis) Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration (2008)
“International Arbitration: The Path Toward Uniform Procedures,” in Global Reflections on International Law, Commerce and Dispute Resolutions, edited by Gerald Asken, Paris: ICC Publishing, 2006
Co-author, “International Arbitration,” in The College of Commercial Arbitrators’Guide to Best Practices in Commercial Arbitration, edited by James M. Gaitis, JurisNet LLC, 2006
“Anti-Suit Injunctions Issued by National Courts,” Anti-Suit Injunctions in International Arbitration, IAI & JurisNet LLC, 2005
“Reconciling Anglo-Saxon and Civil Law Procedure,” in Law of International Business and Dispute Settlement in the 21st Century, Karl Heymanns Verlag, 2005
Additional Information
Community Activities / Board Memberships
American Aid Society Paris (chairman of board of directors)
World Monuments Fund (France) (member of board of directors and secretary)
American Library of Paris (former member of board of trustees)
American Chamber of Commerce in France (former member of board of directors)
Military Service
US Navy Reserve, Lieutenant (active duty 1952 – 1954 USS Cambria)
