John Wilkinson
Fulton, Rowe & Hart
One Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 301
New York, NY 10020-2002
Chair, Dispute Resolution Section, New York State Bar Association (“NYSBA”) (Current); Chair, Arbitration Committee, Dispute Resolution Section, NYSBA (2010-12); Chair, Mediation Committee, Dispute Resolution Section, NYSBA (2008-09); Vice Chair, Arbitration Committee, American Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Section (2010-12); Board of Directors, College of Commercial Arbitrators (Current).
John Wilkinson was written up in the July 2, 2007 issue of New York Magazine as one of the best lawyers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut in international arbitration. He is a member of the arbitration panels of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution; the International Panel of Distinguished Neutrals of the CPR Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, as well as the panels of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration. He is a member of the International Arbitration Club of New York and is co-author of the NY State Bar Ass’n’s Guidelines for the Arbitrator’s Conduct of the Pre-Hearing Phase of International Arbitrations; he is on the Board of the New York International Arbitration Centre. He has served as arbitrator (often as chair) in hundreds of international commercial cases, including the following representative matters:
• Multi-billion dispute arising from a joint venture to construct a submarine fiber optic network around South America.
• A disputed claim under a political risk insurance policy based on the demise of a large power plant project in Inner Mongolia.
• Alleged breach of a contract to generate and supply power in Guyana;
• Responsibility for the crash of a commercial satellite rocket in the Ukraine.
• Claims of various breaches arising from a venture to establish and operate a cellular telephone system in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan.
• Various alleged breaches arising from a joint venture to acquire licenses to operate as a carrier of wireless communications services in the Carribean.
• Claim by a financial advisor to oil and gas exploration and development companies for monies due for advice to a company developing oil fields in Kazakhstan.
• Various alleged breaches of a joint venture to run a fiber optic telecommunications network from Moscow to Khabarrovsk.
• Issues as to coverage under a policy insuring against losses from trade financing or forfaiting in Brazil.
• Alleged breach of a joint venture to develop the port of Puerto Cabezas and its surrounding facilities in Nicaragua.
Representative examples are: Co-author and editor of the ADR Practice Book (John Wiley & Sons), which received an award and honorarium as the best dispute resolution book of the year; Arbitration Tools, Increasing Efficiency Through Discovery Protocols, Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation (March 2010); Arbitration Contract Clauses, a Potential Key to a Cost-Effective Process, ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine (Fall 2009); Arbitration Contract Clauses, GPSOLO, The Best Articles Published by the ABA (March 2010); The Future of Arbitration, Striking a Balance Between Quick Justice and Fair Resolution of Complex Claims (BNA, Inc., April 21, 2008); Streamlining Arbitration of the Complex Case, Dispute Resolution Journal (August 2000).
Frequent speaker on arbitration to professional and bar organizations, corporate legal departments, and law school classes, as well as to groups such as the legal department of the Navy.
Recognitions: Best Lawyers in America, 2013; Super Lawyers, NY Times Magazine, 2013; New York Area’s Best Lawyers, NY Magazine, 2013; Marquis, Who’s Who in the World; Who’s Who in America, 2012; Legal News, Top 3% of Attorneys in the U.S., 2009; American Registry, America’s Most Honored Professionals, 2012; American Lawyer, Top Lawyers, 2013.