Med-Arb-International
Biography
Dr Mahmood is an offshore litigation barrister with multi jurisdictional experience, specialising in international commercial dispute resolution (litigation,arbitration and mediation), restructuring, insolvency litigation, contentious trust litigation, funds litigation, insurance litigation and has represented clients in a wide variety of commercial disputes in London, Asia and the Middle-East.
He is a Visiting Professor at Durham University.
Dr Mahmood has experience of all the major arbitration rules and seats and appears as a barrister in arbitration hearings regularly.
He speaks and publishes regularly on topics relating to international arbitration, mediation and issues of diversity in the legal profession.
He is on the Approved Faculty List (AFL) with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and provides training in International Arbitration, Domestic Arbitration and Mediation.
Dr Mahmood sits as an arbitrator on a regular basis.
He has substantial experience in the following areas:
Languages
Articles
Speaking Engagements
1. Confronting Dishonesty – Interdisciplinary Conference – Panelist
– Keele University (2022)
2. Lecture – IDR v ADR – Taught to LLM students
– Keele University (2022)
3. CIArb Mediation Course
– Taught to the Judiciary and Senior Lawyers in Pakistan – (2022)
4. XV Dublin Forum on International Disputes
– A symposium of dispute resolvers constructing concord in the era of entropy – (2022)
5. CIArb – Pakistan
– “Arbitration practice, procedure, and process. What is the role of standardization? – (2022)
6. Inaugural Arbitration Summit
Pakistan – ‘Impartiality and Independence of arbitrators’ ( 2022)
7. RV Institute of Legal Studies – India
– Emergency Arbitrations – (2021)
8. DIFC Academy
– ‘Virtual Witnesses in a Virtual World’ (2021)
9. The University of Keele
– ‘Virtual Witnesses’ (2021)
10. Maharashtra National Law University
– Speaker – Certificate Course in International Arbitration (India, 2020)
11. Symbiosis Law School – Speaker
– Arbitration -Master Class (India, 2020)
12. Mirpur Bar Association
– Talk – ‘The ICC Anti-Corruption Code’ – (Pakistan, 2020)
13. AJK Cricket Board
– Talk – ‘The ICC Anti-Doping Code’ – (Pakistan, 2020)
14. Webinar
Future of Mediation in Pakistan, (London, 2020)
15. Pinsent & Masons
Expert Evidence in arbitration (London, 2019)
16. DIFC Academy
Lead presentation on expert evidence in arbitration (Dubai, 2019)
17. London Centre for Legal English
Guest Speaker – Commodity Arbitration (London, 2018)
18. Council of Europe
2-day arbitration training to arbitrators, lawyers and corporate organisation as an International Consultant (Armenia, 2017)
19. Society of Construction Law Conference
Guest Speaker – Construction Adjudication (Dublin, 2017)
20. Lahore University of Management School of Law
Guest Speaker – ‘Arbitrator Bias’ (Pakistan, 2016)
21. Shurland & Co
Delivered in-house training on Arbitration procedures and developments (Bahamas, 2017)
Panel Membership
1. Visiting Professor (ADR)
Durham University
2. Honorary Lecturer (ADR)
Keele University, School of Law
3. Arbitrator
Singapore International Arbitration Centre
4. Arbitrator
Cayman International Arbitration & Mediation Centre
5. Arbitrator
Kigali International Arbitration Centre
6. Arbitrator
GCC Commercial Arbitration Centre – Bahrain
7. Arbitrator
Oman Commercial Arbitration Centre
8. Arbitrator
BVI International Arbitration Centre
9. Arbitrator
International Islamic Centre for Reconciliation and Arbitration (IICRA)
10. Arbitrator
International Centre for Appropriate Dispute Resolution and Prevention (Private) Limited (ICADRP)
11. Arbitrator
ADGM Arbitration Centre
12. Arbitrator
Singapore International Arbitration Centre
13. Arbitrator/Mediator
Sports Resolution
14. Arbitrator
BAS Panel – (CIArb)
15. Arbitrator
Singapore International Arbitration Centre
16. Arbitrator/Mediator
Hunt ADR, U.K. (HADR)
17. Mediator
Hunt ADR, U.K (HADR)
18. Arbitrator
Centre for International Investment & Commercial Arbitration (CIICA)
19. Arbitrator/Mediator
Maldives International Arbitration Centre (MIAC)
20. Arbitrator
Centre for International Alternative Dispute Resolution (CiADR)
21. Arbitrator
Thailand Arbitration Centre (THAC)
22. Mediator
Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC)
23. Arbitrator
Wasel & Wasel Arbitrator Services INC
24. Arbitrator
The Law Society – England & Wales Panel
25. Arbitrator
The Bar Council – England & Wales Panel
26.Fellow (FCIArb)
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, U.K.
27. Fellow (AMINZ)
Arbitrators’ and Mediators Institute of New Zealand
28. Fellow (MIArb)
The Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators