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Governor’s House
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EC4R 0BR
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George Burn
Work Department
International Arbitration
Position
Partner
Career
George Burn is the Global Co-Leader of the firm’s International Arbitration Practice and a leading specialist in both investor-state and international commercial arbitration. With over 25 years’ experience of acting as arbitrator and counsel in complex high-stakes disputes, clients from across the world have come to rely on his strategic expertise and ingenuity to break new ground on important jurisdictional issues, among other questions of public as well as private international law.
George has a distinguished track-record of representing and advising clients across a broad-spectrum of disputes covering multiple sectors, including infrastructure, energy, banking and finance, military and defence, mining, construction, trade and commerce. These disputes have been seated throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas and governed by the principal arbitral rules. These include the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, UNCITRAL, SIAC, SCC, HKIAC, AAA-ICDR and PCA, as well as lesser known rules, such as the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Investment Agreement of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
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- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
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- Real estate > Property litigation
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Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
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- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
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- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
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- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Transport > Aviation
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
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- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Employment > Health and safety
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Finance > Securitisation
- Real estate > Social housing: finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)