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”.

Mr. Born 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 recognised 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).

Mr. Born 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. Mr. Born is also the author of multiple other works on international commercial, investment arbitration and international litigation.

In addition to acting as counsel, Mr. Born 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.