Grant A Hanessian

Practice Areas

Grant Hanessian is an independent arbitrator in New York. Mr. Hanessian has acted as arbitrator or counsel in a wide range of international, investor-state, and complex commercial disputes arising under the laws of many countries and public international law, with particular experience in infrastructure and construction, energy, mining, pharma/life sciences, technology and intellectual property, financial services, and post-M&A disputes and other contractual matters. He has served as arbitrator or counsel in more than 200 international arbitrations under the rules of most of the world's major arbitration institutions..

Career

Prior to June 2020, Mr. Hanessian was partner at Baker McKenzie in New York, where he practiced for 33 years, and served as global co-head of firm’s International Arbitration Practice, head of International Arbitration Practice in North America and head of New York office Litigation Department. Since 2018, Mr. Hanessian has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School in New York, where he teaches the LL.M. International Arbitration Practicum and International Commercial Arbitration courses. He has also taught courses in International Investment

Treaty Law and Practice and is a frequent speaker at arbitration conferences and law schools around the world. For a full list of his teaching and presentations, please see www.hanessanadr.com.

Professional Memberships

Mr. Hanessian was US member on the ICC's International Court of Arbitration in Paris from 2015 to 2021, chair of the Arbitration Committee of the US Council for International Business (U.S. national committee of the ICC) from 2015 to 2020, and Vice President of the LCIA’s North American Users Council from 2014 to 2022. He is a member of ICSID’s Panel of Arbitrators, the AAA-ICDR international advisory and publications committees, a fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the International Arbitration Club of New York, CPR Arbitration Committee, NYC Bar Committee on International Commercial Disputes, Club Español del Arbitraje, and a founding board member of the New York International Arbitration Center. In 2023 Mr. Hanessian was appointed first president of the Arbitration Council of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of Armenia.

Publications

Mr. Hanessian is co-editor of The Leading Arbitrators' Guide to International Arbitration (4th ed, 2024); ICDR Awards and Commentaries Vol. I and II (Juris Pub.) and co-editor of International Arbitration Checklists (Juris Pub., 3rd ed.), Gulf War Claims Reporter (ILI/Kluwer), Baker & McKenzie's International Litigation & Arbitration Newsletter (2010-2020) and Baker & McKenzie's International Arbitration Yearbook (2009-2019). He has written more than 50 chapters and article on arbitration topics. For a complete list of Mr. Hanessian's publications, please see www.hanessianadr.com.

Personal

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Work Highlights

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Languages Spoken

Proficient in Spanish; reading knowledge of French.

Industry Sector Expertise

Investor-State, Engineering, Construction, Energy, Mining, Infrastructure, Pharma/Life Sciences, Intellectual Property, Financial Services, Securities and Insurance, M&A, Distribution and other Contracts. For a listing of Mr. Hanessian's cases in various sectors, please see www.hanessianadr.com.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Mr. Hanessian's arbitration cases have involved the substantive or arbitration law of the following countries, or

parties in a particular case have been located or incorporated in one of these countries;

Afghanistan, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia. Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada,

Cayman Islands. China, Colombia, Croatia, Egypt, England and Wales, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, Haiti, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Lichtenstein, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States and Venezuela.

Experience

Mr. Hanessian is annually recommended by Chambers Global and USA Guides (described as "strong arbitrator," “careful, measured and brings tremendous experience”, “really thoughtful, very detailed, decisive,” "well prepared and asks the right questions,” "a mastermind," "people go back to him again and again because of his command of the matters," "exceptionally experienced," "his attention to detail and ability to handle complex procedural issues sets him apart," an "elite lawyer" who is "very experienced, hugely knowledgeable and effective"), Legal 500 (described as "a great practitioner" with a "strong commercial profile"), PLC Which Lawyer, The International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration ("superb counsel and arbitrator"), and Expert Guide to Leading Practitioners in International Arbitration (ranked among "Best of the Best" in international commercial arbitration).