Band 2
Band 2
About
Provided by C Mark Baker
Practice Areas
Arbitration; mediation; litigation.
Career
Mark is Global Co-Head of International Arbitration and a member of the firm's Global Supervisory Board. He has represented clients as lead counsel and acted as an arbitrator in almost every kind of energy contract including renewables, power purchase and sale agreements; construction contracts, mining, infrastructure, project finance and development agreements, joint ventures and complex financial transactions.
Professional Memberships
Texas State Bar; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Fellow; Director and arbitrator for numerous panels of the AAA and ICDR; Former Court Member and arbitrator for the LCIA; Arbitrator for CPR, WIPO, CAM, CAS; Mediator for CEDR and US courts; Member of the ICC Commission; Member of the Advisory Board of the Singapore Arbitration Center. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, Fifth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals and all Federal Courts in Texas.
Personal
At Yale University, he was one of 12 Scholars of the House, graduated summa cum laude, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. At Duke University he was the Elvin R. Latty Scholar and graduated with highest honors. He clerked for the Hon. John R. Brown, former Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit.
Chambers Review
USA
Mark Baker divides his time between serving as counsel and sitting as arbitrator in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations.
Mark Baker divides his time between serving as counsel and sitting as arbitrator in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Mark is an excellent international disputes lawyer and provides practical legal and commercial advice."
"He has considerable intellectual depth and has an appreciation of arbitration as an art form. He has always been very impressive and thoughtful."
"He is very strategic and thorough."
"Mark is an excellent international disputes lawyer and provides practical legal and commercial advice."
"He has considerable intellectual depth and has an appreciation of arbitration as an art form. He has always been very impressive and thoughtful."
"He is very strategic and thorough."