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Max Bonnell

Address: 

White & Case
Level 50
Governor Phillip Tower
1 Farrer Place
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia

Phone Number: 
+61 2 8249 2614
Email: 
max.bonnell@whitecase.com
Born: 
1962, Sydney
Languages: 
English French
Nationalities: 
Australian
Education: 
BA (Hons) Sydney 1983; MA, Warwick, 1986; LLB, Sydney 1989
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
New South Wales and High Court of Australia, 1989
Present Position: 
Partner, White & Case, Adjunct Professor, University of Sydney
Professional Experience: 

King & Wood Mallesons 1995-2017 (partner 1999-2017),
Solicitor and Senior Associate, Allen Allen &
Hemsley, 1989-1995; Senior Associate, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, 1995-1999

Professional Associations: 

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Fellow,
Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration

Panels of Arbitrators: 

LCIA, ACICA

Arbitration Experience: 

Over 70 arbitrations as counsel and advocate,
including acting as lead advocate for the successful claimant in White Industries
v India. Acted as tribunal member in Australia and Singapore

Areas of Specialization: 
Bilateral Investment Treaties
Oil & Gas
International Sale of Goods
Publications from JURIS: 
Australia - Part Q - Arbitration in Asia - 2nd Edition
Publications: 

Australian editor, Encyclopedia of International Commercial
Litigation (Kluwer); numerous journal articles including: “Arbitration
Agreements and Urgent Interlocutory Applications: AED Oil v Puffin” (2010)
76 Arbitration 357-360; “When is an Arbitration Agreement ‘Inoperative’?”
[2008] Int A.L.R. 111; “The Bakun dispute: Mandatory national laws in
international arbitration” (2007) 81 ALJ 259; “Third Party Funding”, Global
Arbitration Review, Volume 3, Issue 1, 35; “The Trade Practices Act:
Australia’s international Arbitration Headache” [2007] Int A.L.R. 170; “HIH
Casualty & General insurance ltd (In liquidation) v R J Wallace” [2007] Int
A.L.R. N-10; “How not to Arbitrate: Pan Australia Shipping Pty Ltd v The Ship
‘Comandate’” (2006) 72 Arbitration 391-395; “Arbitrability of competition
disputes in Australian law” (2005) 79 ALJ 585, and; Chapter on Australian lex
arbitri in “International Arbitration: A Country-by-country look at alternative
dispute resolution methods”.