C Mark Baker
Latin America Guide 2024
Band 5 : International Arbitration
Band 5
About
Provided by C Mark Baker
Practice Areas
Arbitration; mediation; litigation.
Career
Mark is Global Head of International Arbitration and a member of the Global Supervisory Board. He has represented clients as lead counsel and acted as an arbitrator in almost every kind of energy contract including renewables, power purchase and sale agreements, construction contracts, mining, infrastructure, project finance and development agreements, joint ventures and complex financial transactions including, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru. Numerous cases have been designated as “cases of the year” by several publications.
Professional Memberships
Texas State Bar; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Fellow; Director and arbitrator for numerous panels of the AAA and ICDR; Former Court Member and arbitrator for the LCIA; Arbitrator for CPR, WIPO, CAM, CAS; Mediator for CEDR and US courts; Member of the ICC Commission. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, Fifth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals and all Federal Courts in Texas.
Personal
At Yale University, he was one of 12 Scholars of the House, graduated summa cum laude, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. At Duke University he was the Elvin R. Latty Scholar and graduated with highest honors. He clerked for the Hon. John R. Brown, former Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit.