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Walter G. Gans

Address: 

159 West 53rd Street, Apt.27E
NY, NY 10019
USA

437 Madison Avenue, 23rd Floor
NY, NY 10022
USA

Phone Number: 
212-319-7010
Fax Number: 
212-202-5456
Email: 
wgans@rcn.com
Born: 
1936, Czech Republic
Languages: 
English French German
Nationalities: 
USA
Education: 
Bowdoin College (BA Comparative Government, Honors, 1957)
New York University School of Law (JD 1961; LLM Comp. Law 1967)
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Admitted to New York Bar 1961
Present Position: 
Independent Arbitrator & Mediator
Professional Experience: 

Associate, Fried Frank (1961-63); Attorney, International Latex Corporation (1963-67); Senior / International Counsel, Olin Corporation (1967-79); Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Siemens Corporation (1979-99); Special Counsel, Kaye Scholer LLP (2000-02); Independent Arbitrator & Mediator (2002-present).

Professional Associations: 

College Of Commercial Arbitrators (Fellow & ex Board Member); CPR Int’l Inst. For Conflict Prevention & Resolution; Int’l Bar Association; American Bar Ass’n; American Foreign Law Ass’n (former); American Corporate Counsel Ass’n (former); Forum for EU-US Legal – Economic Affairs (former); Conference Board Council of Chief Legal Officers, AAA Corporate Counsel Committee, Food & Drug Law Institute Board (former).

Panels of Arbitrators: 

American Arbitration Ass’n; Int’l Centre for Dispute Resolution; CPR Int’l Inst. for Conflict Prevention &Resolution; ICC.

Arbitration Experience: 

Over 100 arbitrations as sole arbitrator, chair or party appointed or provider designated arbitrator from 1999 to date.

Areas of Specialization: 
International Arbitration
Mediation
Foreign Investment & Joint Ventures
Mergers & Acquisitions
Antitrust
Competition, Antitrust, Restrictive Trade Practices
Intellectual Property
Publications from JURIS: 
Saving Time and Money in Cross-Border Commercial Disputes - Chapter 12 - ICDR Handbook on International Arbitration & ADR - Third Edition
Saving Time and Money in Cross-Border Commercial Disputes - Chapter 7 - ICDR Handbook on International Arbitration Practice - Second Edition
ADR - The Siemens' Experience - Dispute Resolution Journal - Vol. 51, No. 2
Saving Time and Money in Cross-Border Commercial Disputes - Dispute Resolution Journal - Vol. 52, No. 1
Publications: 
Ad Hoc Innovation in Resolving Business Disputes, 31
Alternatives 9 (October, 2013, CPR Int’l Inst.); Developments in ADR:2000,
AAA, 17th ed.; “Saving Time & Money in Cross-Border Commercial
Disputes,” Dispute Resolution Journal, AAA, 1997;”ADR: The Siemens
Experience”, DISPUTE RESOLUTION JOURNAL,AAA, 1996; Contributor,
ANTITRUST LAW DEVELOPMENTS,2ND ed. (ABA 1984); contributor,
CORPORATE ACQUISITIONS AND MERGERS, Matthew Bender & C.