Welcome to the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
North America Branch

Alden L. Atkins

Washington, DC

Alden L. Atkins FCIArb is an experienced advocate and arbitrator in international and domestic matters. After practicing 40 years with AmLaw 100 firms, he is now an independent arbitrator. He has led matters in nearly all facets of complex commercial litigation, with particularly deep experience in energy (LNG, pipelines, distribution and electric generation), joint venture disputes, antitrust and competition matters, and class/mass actions. As an advocate, he represented both plaintiffs/petitioners and defendants/respondents in high stakes matters. He has served as an arbitrator on matters for the AAA and ICDR, and he is on the CPR’s Energy Panel of Distinguished Neutrals. He teaches a course on Damages in International Arbitration as an adjunct professor at the American University Washington College of Law and has lectured on competition and antitrust law.

Gleb Perestenko

Los Angeles, California

Gleb Perestenko is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Based in Los Angeles, he is a Vice President in Kroll’s construction expert services department, where he specializes in damages analysis for construction disputes. With extensive experience in the construction industry from his time as a cost engineer at a general contractor and a Master’s degree in Construction Law from King’s College London, he has acted on behalf of both claimants and respondents in AAA, ICC and ICSID arbitrations, as well as mediations and litigation. His expert witness experience spans a diverse range of sectors, including infrastructure, energy, healthcare, residential and high-rise construction across North America, Europe and the Middle East.

Jonathan Marks

Jonathan Marks has been a full-time dispute resolution professional since 1981, when he co-founded ENDISPUTE, the nation’s first full-service ADR firm. In 1999, Mr. Marks founded MarksADR, LLC, where he now practices. Over the past 40-plus years, Mr. Marks has spent all his professional time providing arbitration, mediation, and other neutral dispute resolution services. He now spends almost all his professional time as an arbitrator. His practice is a diverse one concentrating on complex, large stakes disputes both international and domestic. Before founding ENDISPUTE, Mr. Marks served in the Carter Administration as General Counsel of the International Development Cooperation Agency and as Counsel and Associate Director for the Peace Corps. These positions followed work as a litigating associate and partner at Munger Tolles in Los Angeles and an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Philip L. Bruner, FCIArb

Washington County, MN

Philip L. Bruneris one of the world’s leading full-time arbitrators, mediators, and resolvers of construction, engineering, and infrastructure claims and disputes arising in the United States and globally. He is a distinguished member of the JAMS panel of neutrals and is the Director of JAMS Global Engineering and Construction Group. For more than 25 years prior to joining JAMS, he was a member of panels of arbitrators of other dispute resolution organizations. As a practicing lawyer for over 40 years prior to becoming a full-time neutral, Mr. Bruner concentrated on construction, engineering, energy and infrastructure litigation and was lead counsel in over 100 arbitrations and litigated cases venued in over 30 states. He also mediated or participated in mediation of numerous cases. Represented parties included the spectrum of construction industry participants: public and private owners, contractors, subcontractors, specialty contractors, architects, engineers (civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, geotechnical, hydrological), sureties, insurers, material manufacturers, material suppliers, equipment suppliers, construction lenders, and construction accountants.