Gary Born is widely regarded as the world’s preeminent authority on international commercial arbitration and international litigation. This talk addresses the adverse consequences that businesses might be facing when they have not agreed on a way to resolve disputes or, when they do, the agreed dispute resolution clause is invalid or wide open to interpretation. The international litigation system, which is then applicable by default is all too often timeconsuming, expensive and inefficient.

In 2015, Mr Born was awarded the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law’s Inaugural Senior Visiting Research Fellowship. He is the chair of WilmerHale’s International Arbitration Practice Group, and 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.