Profile: Alan Redfern

Commercial Arbitration

Biography: Commercial Arbitration

Alan Redfern has worked as a full-time, professional arbitrator for the last 12 years, since leaving the international law firm Freshfields (where he was the senior litigation partner) and joining the chambers of Lord Grabiner QC at One Essex Court.

He is a leading authority on international commercial arbitration and has acted as chairman, sole arbitrator or party-nominated arbitrator in numerous cases, not only in London but worldwide. He believes strongly in effective case management by arbitral tribunals and in the prompt delivery of awards.

Alan Redfern is experienced in the conduct of ad hoc arbitrations, as well as those conducted under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and under the leading arbitral regimes, including the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, AAA and ICDR. These arbitrations have included insurance and reinsurance claims; research, development and distribution claims; international joint venture agreements; damage claims in different areas of activity, including plant supply, computer software, telecommunications and financing; international construction projects; oil and gas industry claims, both onshore and off-shore; and international defence contracts. Alan Redfern has also given expert evidence in matters relating to international arbitration.

He is a vice president of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. He is also a non-executive director of the London Court of International Arbitration. He is co-author of Redfern and Hunter Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration, which is now in its fourth edition (2004), and a contributor to The Leading Arbitrators' Guide to International Arbitration.

Alan Redfern gave the annual Queen Mary College/Freshfields lecture (on dissenting opinions) in 2004 and the annual Master's Lecture of the Company of Arbitrators in the following year. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the International Bar Association and the Swiss Arbitration Association. He is on the international panel of American Arbitration Association and of arbitral institutions in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere.