Louis B. (Benno) Kimmelman

Prior to his retirement from Sidley Austin LLP in December 2020, Benno Kimmelman acted as lead counsel in complex commercial and investment treaty disputes under all the major international arbitration rules and also represented parties involved in litigation in aid of the arbitration process and in award enforcement proceedings. Since leaving firm practice, he serves as an independent arbitrator in international and domestic disputes under all the major arbitration rules involving all sectors of commercial activity. Benno also acts as an expert witness on New York law.

Over more than forty years, Benno has been a litigator, arbitration practitioner, teacher and arbitrator who has focused on international disputes. In addition to his arbitrator work, he is a Professor of Practice at Brooklyn Law School and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches courses on International Commercial Arbitration. He was an adviser to the American Law Institute project on the Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration and served for ten years as co-chair of the Fordham International Arbitration and Mediation Conference. He is currently Chair of the New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC).

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)