Mark Cymrot is a first-chair attorney who handles complex international and commercial arbitration and litigation, and has been a member of more than 45 esteemed international arbitration tribunals. Mark leads BakerHostetler's International Arbitration and Litigation team, which Chambers Global ranks as Band 1, Highly Regarded, and co-leads the Global Fraud and International Asset Tracing and Recovery team, which has been recognized by Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal.
Mark is the author of The Case of the Welched Reward: Spies, the FBI and Pursuit of Peru's Most Infamous Fugitive and Squeezing Silver: Peru’s Trial Against Nelson Bunker Hunt, and he has published more than 30 articles on litigation and arbitration issues, such as "Going First Makes A Difference: Decision-Making Dynamics in Arbitration" (Transnational Disputes Management, Oct. 2014), "Cross-Examination in International Arbitration" (Disputes Resolution Journal, 2007), and "Barricades at the IMF: Creating a Municipal Bankruptcy Code for Foreign States" (The International Lawyer, 2002). See www.markcymrot.com.
Mark was an adviser to the American Law Institute, Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law, a member of the Advisory Board to the President, CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, and chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators DC Branch. He was Special Litigation Counsel in the Civil Division of the Justice Department. He is ranked in Chambers Global and The Best Lawyers in America® (International Arbitration – Commercial and Governmental) and is listed in Who's Who in America.