Gary Birnberg has over 30 years experience as a commercial dispute resolution and business relations intermediary, management consultant, corporate board member, entrepreneur, trainer, speaker, and advisor to companies worldwide. As an attorney, global consultant, and business relations facilitator, he intervenes optimally in both domestic and cross-border disputes and creates real value by facilitating superior results. His expertise includes international commercial negotiation, complex commercial dispute resolution, contract disputes (including multi-party, complex cases), resolution including multi-lingual cross-border commercial cases, negotiations, international expansion strategy, distribution systems. As a multilingual-multicultural mediator, arbitrator, speaker, and advisor, he is also fluent in English, French, and Portuguese and functional in Italian and Spanish.
Experience
- International Mediator & Arbitrator, at Agency for Dispute Resolution (2015-Present)
- Executive Director, Arbitrator, and Mediator, at Global Resolution (1995-Present)
- Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Panels, American Arbitration Association (2014-Present)
- Arbitrator, at CAMRJ: Câmara Arbitral Marítima do Rio de Janeiro (2013-Present)
- Mediator, at CBMA: Centro Brasileiro de Mediação e Arbitragem (2013-Present)
- Arbitrator-Mediator, at CMAP: Centre de Médiation et d’Arbitrage de Paris (the dispute resolution arm of CCI Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris) (2013-Present)
- Partner at Morena Coaching International (2014-Present)
- Arbitrator-Mediator, International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) (2011-Present)
- Arbitrator, Financial Industry Regulatory Agency (FINRA) (2011-Present)
- Co-Founder and Partner at The Travel Desk, Inc. (1981-1999)
- Consultant at Oliver Wyman (1987-1988)
Education
- M.B.A. at INSEAD Fontainebleau, France (1986)
- J.D. at Boston University (1985)
- B.A. at University of Pennsylvania, International Relations (1981)
Affiliations
- Admitted to District of Columbia, Masachusetts, Minnesota, New York
- Board Member and Officer of CAJE
- Board Member and Officer at French-American Chamber of Commerce
- Board Member and Officer at International Bar Association Mediation Committee
- Member of American Bar Association
- Member of Florida Association of Professional Mediators
- Member of International Law Section, Florida Bar
- Member of Miami International Arbitration Society