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Gordon Blanke
Gordon Blanke  Associate
+44 (0)20 7111 2127
gordon.blanke@sjberwin.com

Gordon Blanke is an associate and a competition law specialist with SJ Berwin’s International Arbitration Group.  He regularly advises clients and acts as Administrative Secretary in international arbitration proceedings, including proceedings governed by the Arbitration Rules of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, the JAMS Streamlined Arbitration Rules in New York and the UNCITRAL Rules. 

Gordon is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London, the Deutsche Institut für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, the London Court of International Arbitration, the Swiss Arbitration Association, the Austrian Arbitration Association, the ICC UK National Committee, the International Bar Association and the IBA Antitrust and Arbitration Committees.  He has also been appointed member of the ICC Commission on Competition and used to serve on the former ICC Task Force for Arbitrating Competition Law Issues in Paris.

Gordon’s arbitration experience in the last twelve months includes:

  • advising on an international dispute between an English and a US company in the private equity sector;

  • bringing a multi-million euro claim on behalf of a leading manufacturer of machinery used in the dairy industry against a contractual counterpart for breach of a financial provision of a sales contract under the ICC Rules;
  • representing the defendant in relation to a dispute arising from an exclusive distribution agreement under the LCIA Rules;

  • advising on select EC competition law aspects in relation to an international arbitral dispute;

  • advising on the effective use of an arbitration clause as part of a behavioural commitment in an EC merger case; and

  • acting as Administrative Secretary to the Arbitral Tribunal in various ICC, SCC and UNCITRAL arbitrations.


Prior to joining SJ Berwin, Gordon followed the in-service training of the former Merger Task Force of the Directorate-General of Competition of the European Commission in Brussels. He also worked as a stagiaire-référendaire with the Chambers of Advocate General Jacobs at the European Court of Justice as well as the Chambers of Judges Jaeger and Azizi of the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. Finally, Gordon served a training period with the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris.

Gordon graduated with a Law Degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1998 and gained his professional qualification at the Inns of Court School of Law, London.  He holds a Master’s Degree in Advanced International Studies from the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna and attended the École nationale d’administration, Strasbourg, as an élève étranger.  Gordon further gained a D.E.S.S. en contentieux communautaire from the Institut Universitaire International Luxembourg and the Université Robert Schuman Strasbourg and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law from King’s College, London, as well as a Diploma de Derecho Común Europeo from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, to which he was admitted as a Becario Jean Monnet.

Gordon has published widely on various subjects relating to both EC competition law and international arbitration in leading academic and professional journals.  Apart from authoring a book on The Use and Utility of International Arbitration in EC Commission Merger Remedies, published with Europa Law Publishing in July 2006, Gordon has co-authored the ICC Draft Best Practice Note on the European Commission Acting as Amicus Curiae in International Arbitration Proceedings as part of his work for the ICC Task Force for Arbitrating Competition Law Issues and the Russian Federation chapter of C. Liebscher & A. Fremuth-Wolf (eds.), Arbitration Law and Practice in Central and Eastern Europe, published by Juris Publishing in June 2006. Gordon is currently co-editing The Treatment of US Antitrust and EC Competition Law in International Arbitration - A Handbook for Practitioners, which is scheduled for publication with Kluwer Law International in early 2008, as well as a loose-leaf on Global Cartel Litigation, also to be published with Kluwer Law International in 2009.  Further Gordon is co-editor of The International Comparative Legal Guide to Lititgation & Dispute Resolution 2008, published by Global Legal Group, and is the book review editor of the European Competition Law Review.

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Gordon is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences on international arbitration and competition law both in the United Kingdom and abroad, and is regularly appointed to serve as arbitrator at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna.

Gordon is fluent in English, French, Spanish and German.