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Mark Cymrot has served on more than 60 commercial and international arbitration tribunals, often as chair or sole arbitrator. He was Founder and Leader of the BakerHostetler LLP International Arbitration and Litigation Team, ranked by Chambers Global as Band 1, Highly Regarded. He is an adviser at the American Law Institute, Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law. He was Special Litigation Counsel in the Civil Division of the Justice Department. Mark tried the famous silver market manipulation case that resulted in $197 million jury verdict, a top 10 verdict in the United States during that decade and the subject of his book Squeezing Silver: Peru’s Trial Against Nelson Bunker Hunt. His original defense of Republic of Peru in $40 billion in commercial loan lawsuits worldwide facilitated the reshaping of its economy into one of the fastest growing in the emerging markets. He represented counterclaim-plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Brunei that resulted in a top 10 jury verdict in New York for the decade. His unlikely defeat of a Venezuelan spy’s claim for the reward for the capture of Peru’s head of security services, became the subject of his thriller, The Case of the Welched Reward.