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George Burn

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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.