Biography: Arbitration

Daniel Kalderimis is a partner in the dispute resolution team of Chapman Tripp and leads the firm's international arbitration and trade law practice, which focuses on the Asia-Pacific region. He is admitted in New Zealand, New York and England and Wales (where he is a solicitor-advocate for civil matters).

Daniel studied at Victoria University of Wellington (BA, LLB Hons first class), where he graduated first in his year; and at Columbia Law School (LLM), for which he received the Fulbright-Buddle Findlay Award and was an associate-in-law. Before returning to Chapman Tripp in 2009 he worked in London as a senior associate in the international arbitration group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.

Daniel has wide experience as counsel in international arbitrations. He also appears as a barrister and solicitor in commercial litigation before New Zealand courts. He has co-authored a guide to the ICSID Convention and Arbitration Rules, is the author of the New Zealand chapter of World Arbitration Reporter and a co-author of the leading New Zealand arbitration text book. He has worked on cross-border disputes involving mining, oil and resources projects, technology and telecommunications, private equity and institutional investment.

Daniel is widely published in the field of international economic law and is an adjunct lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington. He is a member of the LCIA, the International Bar Association, the International Law Association, the American Society of International Law and the Arbitrators and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand.