Jack Burstyn

Jack is an Associate in the International Arbitration team in the Dispute Resolution department.

His practice focuses on a range of commercial and investor-state arbitrations across a variety of jurisdictions. For over a decade, Jack has participated in proceedings before all major arbitral institutions including LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL and ICSID, as well as ad-hoc, inter-state and trade association arbitrations.

Jack has advised on commercial disputes involving substantive and procedural English, French, Swiss, German, Brazilian, US, Emirati, Afghan, Ukrainian as well as public international law. He has acted for and advised parties across a broad range of sectors, including energy, mining, infrastructure, shareholder and joint venture disputes, public infrastructure projects, commodities, and international trade.

Jack's broader practice includes disputes involving international political issues, as well as matters concerning international criminal and humanitarian law.

Key Experience

• Acting for a Swiss investor in a claim against a Central European state (UNCITRAL proceedings at the Permanent Court of Arbitration and challenge proceedings before the English Commercial Court).
• Acting for the family of a detained politician and advising on ECHR / interstate proceedings, consular access under the Vienna Convention and applications to UN bodies.
• Acting for an Afghan oil and gas company in a multi-billion dollar LCIA arbitration with its joint venture partner, a state-owned entity.
• Acting for a European natural resources trader in an ICC arbitration against a West African State-owned entity.
• Acting for a European energy company in a LCIA arbitration against an Eastern European contractor concerning a semi-submersible offshore oil rig.
• Acting for an international natural resources company in multi-billion dollar dispute with its former joint venture partner (LCIA arbitration, London) and a related ICSID arbitration against a West African state. The LCIA arbitration also included challenge and set aside proceedings in the English courts.
• Acting for a US oil company in ICSID arbitration against a Caribbean state in relation to a deep-sea exploration and exploitation concession.
• Acting for an European agricultural enterprise in a multi-million dollar dispute with its former business partner concerning the production and export of wheat (GAFTA, London).
• Acting for the Administrator of three companies in administration in a multi-billion dollar cross-jurisdictional dispute against a sovereign state (PCA, London).
• Intern with the Association of Defence Counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia at the Hague, representing Radovan Karadžić.

Career History

Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Trainee Solicitor, Mishcon de Reya LLP
BPP Law School, GDL; LPC
University of Leeds, BA Arabic and Middle East Studies