Robert Hunter

Robert Hunter has 40 years’ continuous experience of conducting complex international dispute resolution, with substantial periods in each of London, New York and Germany. He acts as both advocate and arbitrator in complex international disputes relating to capital projects, corporate transactions, international contracts, joint ventures and development agreements, government projects and investment treaties. Robert has exceptional cross-cultural expertise and is dual-qualified in England (barrister) and Germany (Rechtsanwalt). The disputes in which he has been involved as counsel and arbitrator have concerned projects and contracts in four continents with seats of arbitration ranging from Singapore and Hong Kong, through Cairo and all significant European arbitration centres, to New York and Washington D.C. Robert is a long-standing member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, a member of the Executive Committee of the MCIA Users Council (TMT) and on the panel of arbitrators of the Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre, Beijing Arbitration Commission, CIETAC, HKIAC and SIAC. He has obtained a Fellowship of the CIArb and accreditation as a mediator from CEDR. He has been a senior consultant to the World Bank advising governments on investment policy framework. He has been on the International Council of Osborne Clarke, he was on the drafting committee of the 2018 DIS Arbitration Rules, and he is recognised in the Lexology Index: Germany 2027 for arbitration.