Christopher CHINN, FCIARB

Born and raised in Hawai’i, Christopher Chinn, FCIArb, is a Franco-American arbitrator and counsel admitted in Paris, England & Wales, and New York.

He is proudly based in Paris and has arbitrated cases for the ICC Court of Arbitration in Paris and is on the list of arbitrators at the CMAP in Paris.

Christopher has been involved on the counsel side of international arbitrations at leading law firms in New York and Paris since 1999 and has acted as arbitrator since 2019 under the rules of the DIAC, HKIAC, ICC, KCAB, and SAKIG under common law and civil law legal systems in the French and English languages. Matters as arbitrator have included disputes in the construction, energy and commercial sectors involving States, individuals and international corporations. Christopher speaks Polish on a conversational level and has arbitrated disputes in Eastern Europe in addition to Western Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Christopher has run his own boutique practice since 2017. www.chinnarbitration.com

He is Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the European Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been admitted to numerous institutional lists of arbitrators.