Thelen LLP

Gerald Aksen is a retired partner of the firm's Commercial Litigation Department and ADR practice. Ranked as the leading international arbitration attorney in New York in the 2003-2004 editions of Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers and Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers, Mr. Aksen was the Firm's resident Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Settlement specialist. Mr. Aksen is the recipient of the 2005 American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section's D'Alemberte/Raven Award for outstanding service in dispute resolution.

Mr. Aksen's practice involved domestic and international litigation and arbitration with experience in accounting audits, computer-related, construction (power plants and shipbuilding), environment, executive employment, international joint ventures, trade, sales and agency, insurance, oil and petroleum, patent-license, pharmaceutical, satellites and telecommunications.

New York University School of Law (LL.B., 1958)

Columbia University (M.A., 1952)

College of the City of New York (B.A., 1951)

Immediate Past President, College of Commercial Arbitrators

Immediate Past American Vice Chairman, ICC International Court of Arbitration

United States Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

American Bar Association (former Member House of Delegates, Chairman of the Section of International Law and Practice)

Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, International Committee on Dispute Resolution; former Chairman, Arbitration Committee; former Chairman, ADR Advisory Committee; former Member, International Law Committee)

Former Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, teaching international arbitration

Former General Counsel and Member, Board of Directors, American Arbitration Association

Member, Board of Trustees, United States Council for International Business (American National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce)

Former Chairman, Arbitration Committee, United States Council for International Business

Former Vice President, London Court of International Arbitration