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John J. Kerr Jr.

Address: 

Retired Partner

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

425 Lexington Avenue

New York , NY 10017-3954

Phone Number: 
212-455-3805
Fax Number: 
212-455-2502
Email: 
jkerr@stblaw.com
Born: 
1950, Boston Ma.
Languages: 
English
Nationalities: 
USA
Education: 
Columbia Law School. J.D., 1976
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
Editor-in-Chief, Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
International Fellow
National Scholar (7th Circuit)
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
United States Supreme Court (1986)
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1986)
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1992)
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1990)
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1979)
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1979)
United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (1987)
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1979)
State of New York (1977)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1977)
Professional Associations: 

AAA (Former Chair of the Board and Chair of the Executive Committee; Lifetime Honorary Director); AAA-ICDR Foundation (Trustee); LCIA (Member of the Company); International Arbitration Club of New York (Founding Member); American Foreign Law Association (Former President and Director); ABA (Litigation Section and International Committee); ABA Jury Trials Subcommittee (Former Chair); IBA (Business Section, Litigation Committee and Dispute Resolution Committee);The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, International Commercial Disputes Committee; Federal Bar Council; Columbia Law School Board of Visitors

Arbitration Experience: 

Arbitrator or Counsel in over 50 international arbitrations. Service as Chair, Sole Arbitrator, and Co-Arbitrator in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations under all of the major sets of arbitration rules around the world. Former Head of the International Arbitration and Litigation Group of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Delegate to UNCITRAL Working Group II (Arbitration and Conciliation). Member of ICC Task Force on Arbitration Involving States and State Entities. List of representative arbitrations and litigations available upon request

Areas of Specialization: 
Arbitration & ADR
Banking & Finance
Competition, Antitrust, Restrictive Trade Practices
Contracts
Foreign Investment & Joint Ventures
Insolvency & Reorganization
Insurance
Licensing
Litigation
Products Liability
Real Estate
Securities
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 

“Court Jurisdiction and Arbitration over Misrepresentation in U.S. Securities Transactions,” in The Law of Cross-Border Securities Transactions, ed. H. Van Houtte (Sweet & Maxwell, London) (1999); Comparison of International Arbitration Rules (co-authored with Robert H. Smit, Peter C. Thomas, Tyler B. Robinson and Janet Whittaker), (Juris Publishing, 3rd ed. 2008); “Expropriation of the Dabhol Power Project”, (co-authored with Robert H. Smit), 19(2) Mealey’s International Arbitration Report 42, (February 2004); Comment on “Life Receivables Trust v. Syndicate 102 at Lloyd’s of London,” (co-authored with Ana Carolina M. Viana), 21 Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem 207-220 (2009); The United States Experience, prepared as part of the IBA Task Force on Economic Consequences of Litigation Worldwide (1998); “Arbitrability of Securities Law Claims in Common Law Nations,” 12 Arbitration International 171-178 (1996); U. S. Litigation Column, International Financial Law Review, 1994-98; “Defending Class Actions,” (co-author with Paul C. Cumin and Lynn K. Neuner), Asia Law Magazine, April 1996; and various others