Dr. Gordon Blanke
Dr. Gordon Blanke LL.M MCIArb is Founding Partner of Blanke Arbitration LLC, Dubai/London/Paris. Before establishing his own firm, Dr. Blanke was a Partner of International Commercial and Investment Arbitration with DWF (Middle East) LLP in the DIFC, Dubai. Prior to joining DWF, he was Counsel and Sector Leader of International Arbitration in Baker & McKenzie.Habib Al Mulla’s Dubai and Abu Dhabi offices. Dr. Blanke has wide-ranging experience in all types of international commercial and investment arbitration in both the common and civil law legal systems, having acted as advising counsel and arbitrator under most leading institutional arbitration rules (ICC, LCIA, DIFC-LCIA, DIAC, ADCCAC, GCC, JAMS, SCC, etc.) and ad hoc (incl. GAFTA and LMAA) in arbitrations seated in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia in relation to a variety of industry sectors, including construction/real estate, corporate, oil & gas, banking & finance, IT, maritime/shipping etc. Dr. Blanke speaks regularly on international arbitration and has published over 200 books and articles on international arbitration, including Comparison of Gulf International Arbitration Rules (2010), Comparison of MENA International Arbitration Rules (2011) and Arbitration in the MENA (2016), all three published by Juris, and most recently Commentary on the UAE Arbitration Chapter, Sweet & Maxwell (2017) and Dispute Resolution in the Gulf, LexisNexis (2018). In the 2014 and 2015 editions of The Legal 500, Gordon has been recommended for international arbitration in the UAE, being praised as “very professional” in the 2016 edition. He is also recommended, including for construction arbitration, in The Legal 500 EMEA 2019.
Dr. Blanke is listed as a leading arbitration specialist in Who’s Who Legal 2016 and Who’s Who Arbitration – Future Leaders 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. Gordon is a former member and Vice Chair of the Steering Committee of the UAE-ICC Commission on Arbitration & ADR and on the editorial board of a number of leading arbitration journals, including in particular Arbitration, the journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
