89 LAWYER MONTHLY ADR AWARDS 2024 International Arbitration Barrister of the Year About Adam Butt Adam Butt is an Australian Barrister based in Sydney who specializes in international arbitration, commercial litigation and human rights law. Prior to joining the New South Wales Bar he practiced as a solicitor at Allens Linklaters and as a senior associate in the international arbitration team at Clayton Utz. Adam has acted on numerous international investment and commercial arbitrations with seats in Europe, Asia, Australia, North America and the Caribbean, including several matters as assistant to Hon James Spigelman AC. He acts on complex commercial and human rights cases and regularly leads teams in Federal and state Supreme Courts, in cases both for and against the Crown. He has won major native title and Aboriginal land claim disputes across Australia, in addition to significant claims brought under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth). During 2020 to 2023, Adam was a finalist each year in Australia’s Lawyers Weekly Barrister of the Year Award, including winning the Award in 2021. Adam has postgraduate degrees in law and politics from New York University and Cambridge where he placed first in several subjects, and has been a visiting scholar in negotiation at Harvard. He is also admitted as an attorney in New York. Previously, Adam worked with the judges at the ICTY in The Hague, on the trial of Slobodan Milošević, and as a permanent part time assistant to two eminent international arbitrators. AUSTRALIA Adam Butt Barrister - Eight Wentworth Chambers Experience 2017-24 Barrister (8th Floor Wentworth Chambers) 2010-14; 2017 Mediation and ADR 2012-13 Clayton Utz – Senior Associate 2010-12 Chalk & Fitzgerald – Senior Lawyer 2007-10 Allens Linklaters – Lawyer Practice Areas • Alternative Dispute Resolution • Appellate • Class Actions • Commercial law • Contracts • Corporations • Environmental and Planning Law • Human Rights • International Law • Public / Administrative Law www.8wentworth.com.au
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