Biography: Arbitration

Ian Hunter QC has been a barrister at the English Bar since 1967. He is a member of the Inner Temple and became a Bencher of that Inn in 1986. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and the Harvard Law School and has been a member of Essex Court Chambers since 1968. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1980 and a Deputy High Court Judge in 1993. He is a member of the Bar of New South Wales and became Senior Counsel there in 1994. He was a member of the Paris Bar from 1995 to 2010 and was President of the Union Internationale des Avocats in 1989-90.

He is a highly experienced international commercial arbitrator recommended in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and a member of the LClA; and has sat on arbitration panels in many parts of the world including London, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Vienna, Singapore, Melbourne and Mumbai.

Mr Hunter is regularly appointed by the ICC, the LCIA and other institutions and in ad hoc arbitrations both as sole arbitrator and a member of a panel. He is experienced in all aspects of commercial arbitration and, in particular, in banking and financial disputes, Shareholders' Agreements, franchise agreements, competition, intellectual property, telecommunications, oil and gas, shipping, and construction disputes of all kinds. He is also a member of the Formula One International Contract Recognition Board, which handles contractual disputes between F1 drivers and their teams.

He has a particular specialty in insurance and reinsurance disputes (including Bermuda form cases) both in the UK, the States and many other parts of the world. He is vice chairman of ARIAS UK, and an ARIAS US accredited arbitrator and umpire. As such he is currently involved in a number of US domestic insurance and reinsurance arbitrations. He is joint editor of Lloyds Insurance and Reinsurance Law Reports and is a CEDR accredited mediator.

Biography: Insurance & Reinsurance

Ian Hunter QC has been a barrister at the English Bar since 1967. He is a member of the Inner Temple and became a Bencher of that Inn in 1986. He was educated at Cambridge and Harvard Law School and has been a member of Essex Court Chambers since 1968. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1980 and a Deputy High Court Judge in 1993. He is a member of the Bar of New South Wales and became senior counsel in New South Wales in 1994. He has also been a member of the Paris Bar since 1995.

Mr Hunter has always had a broad-based commercial practice with a large part of that practice being concerned with arbitration, both as advocate and as arbitrator. As a junior barrister his practice largely involved shipping work, particularly shipping arbitrations. Since taking silk in 1980 he has been involved in many arbitrations both of a general commercial nature and of a more specialised variety.

In recent years an increasing amount of his time has been spent sitting as arbitrator. He is regularly appointed in ICC and LCIA arbitrations and has also been appointed by AAA, SIAC and the Vienna International Arbitral Centre. In addition, he has a particular speciality in insurance and reinsurance arbitration and construction arbitration and many of his appointments as arbitrator are ad hoc appointments in these fields. He sits both as party-appointed arbitrator and as chairman. He is vice president of ARIAS UK, the Insurance and Reinsurance Arbitration Society. He is also an accredited arbitrator with ARIAS US and a number of his appointments involve US and mid-Atlantic arbitrations. He is a member of the Formula One International Contract Recognition Board.

Mr Hunter accepts mediation appointments. He is an accredited mediator with CEDR and is a member of the Distinguished International Panel of Mediators maintained by CPR Resources.

Mr Hunter was president of the Union Internationale des Avocats in 1989 to 1990 and has been involved in arbitrations conducted in French. He is also joint editor of Lloyds Insurance and Reinsurance Law Reports. He has spoken at many arbitration conferences and seminars both in the UK and abroad, particularly in the United States. He also maintains chambers in Sydney Australia, being a member of Seven Wentworth Chambers.