Tom Webster is a lawyer active as an arbitrator, counsel and mediator in international disputes. He has acted as arbitrator in over 150 arbitrations and as counsel in over 75 cases and has also been involved in numerous annulment and enforcement proceedings. His varied arbitrations have been conducted under virtually all major international arbitration rules, at most major places of arbitration and under common and civil law. He is the author of the Handbook of UNCITRAL Arbitration (third edition due in January 2019), the Handbook of ICC Arbitration (4th edition to be published in November 2018) and the Handbook of Investment Arbitration.
Tom has a JD from the University of Toronto, an LLM from Cambridge University and a DEA from the University of Paris I (Sorbonne) and is admitted to practise in England, France, the United States (New York) and Canada (Ontario). He is fluent in French and German. Before setting up his independent practice, which he has conducted in Paris and London, he was a partner of a major New York law firm.
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