Profile

Gordon is Partner of International Commercial Arbitration with DWF (Middle East) LLP in the DIFC, Dubai. He has extensive wide-ranging experience in all types of international commercial arbitration in both the common and civil law legal systems, having acted as advising counsel and arbitrator under most leading institutional arbitration rules (including the ICC, LCIA, DIFC-LCIA, DIAC, ADCCAC, SCC and JAMS arbitration rules) and ad hoc in arbitrations seated in the US, Europe and the Middle East in relation to a variety of industry sectors, including banking & finance, construction/real estate, commodities, shipping, oil & gas etc. Gordon speaks regularly on international arbitration. He has published over 100 books and articles on international arbitration, including in particular Comparison of Gulf International Arbitration Rules and Comparison of MENA International Arbitration Rules, both published with Juris in 2010 and 2011 respectively, and most recently Annotated Guide to Arbitration in the UAE: Volume I - The UAE Arbitration Chapter, Thomson Reuters, 2014.