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William H. Knull III

Address: 

406 Fall River Road
Houston, Texas 77024
USA

Phone Number: 
+1-713-465-8821
832-877-2339
Fax Number: 
+1-713-238-4636
Email: 
wknull@mayerbrown.com
Born: 
1948 California, USA
Languages: 
English Spanish French
Nationalities: 
USA
Education: 
University of Virginia Law School JD (1977)
Order of the Coif, Notes Editor, Virginia Law Review
Yale University BA (1970), B.A., magna cum laude with departmental honors in political science
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
New York 1978 (retired)
Texas 1987
Present Position: 
Independent Arbitrator, William H. Knull, III PLLC
Professional Experience: 

Mayer Brown LLP (Houston), Associate (1986), Partner (1987-2014); Sullivan & Cromwell (NY), Associate (1977-86); US Navy, 1970-74.

Professional Associations: 

Fellow, ChIArb; Advisory Board, Past chair of Inst. For Energy Law (Chair, Committee on Litigation and Dispute Resolution); Advisory Board, Institute for Transnational Arbitration; Co-founder and past president and director, Houston International Arbitration Club; IBA; ABA.

Panels of Arbitrators: 

AAA/ICDR Commercial Panel, AAA/ICDR for large and complex cases; IEL Energy Arbitrators.

Arbitration Experience: 

Engaged for more than 35 years as lead counsel and counsel in arbitration and litigation of complex transnational disputes under ICC, AAA, ICDR, ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules. Although I was severely limited in my ability to accept appointments as a member of Mayer Brown due to the many conflicts of the large firm, I have sat as sole arbitrator and member of tribunals in a number of small commercial cases on appointment by the AAA.

Areas of Specialization: 
International Arbitration
International and Complex Commercial Litigation
Oil & Gas
Telecommunications
Information Technology
Energy
Manufacturing
Trade
Investment
Publications from JURIS: 
Betting the Farm on International Arbitration: Is It Time to Offer an Appeal? - Vol. 11 No. 4 ARIA 2000
Publications: 

W. Knull et al., Accounting for Uncertainty in Discounted Cash Flow Valuation of Upstream Oil and Gas Investments, Transnational Dispute Management, Vol. 4, No. 6, Nov. 2007; J. Energy & Nat. Resources L. 2007, Vol. 25, No 3, August 2007; W. Knull & N. Rubins, Betting the Farm on International Arbitration:  Is it Time to Offer an Appeal Option?, 11 Am. Rev. Int’l Arb. 531 (2002).