Benjamin Fishburne

Benjamin P. Fishburne is a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and has been active in domestic and international business transactions for more than 30 years. During Mr. Fishburne's career, he has advised U.S. and non-U.S. clients on investment, acquisitions, technology transfer, business ethics, and major infrastructure projects in many countries of the world, including the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and China. Mr. Fishburne represents clients in international dispute resolution and is a member of several panels of arbitrators, including those of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. He also is a former member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the American Arbitration Association’s Advisory Panel on Joint Conciliation with China. Mr. Fishburne is the author of several sets of Conciliation Rules. From 1986 until 1991, Mr. Fishburne was the partner in charge of the Hong Kong office of a U.S. law firm. From 1968 to 1972, Mr. Fishburne served as a captain in the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps where he acted as both a trial and an appellate prosecutor. Mr. Fishburne is a former chairman of the American Bar Association’s Middle East Law Committee, a former member of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, a former general counsel of the U.S.-China Business Council and a former chairman of its Legal Committee, and a former member of the American Arbitration Association’s Special Corporate Counsel Committee on East-West Arbitration. Mr. Fishburne served as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing Center from 1988-1997 and was a member of the Advisory Board of the National Planning Association on the Walter Sterling Surrey Memorial Lectures. Mr. Fishburne received a B.A., cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame in 1965 and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1968, where he was a member of Order of the Coif. Mr. Fishburne is a frequent lecturer, a member of the adjunct faculty of the International Law Institute, and an author of a number of articles on East-West trade, East-West arbitration, trade with China, dispute resolution with China, commercial law in the Middle East, the Arab Boycott of Israel, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Hong Kong 1997, and foreign investment policies and procedures.