Born in Lindfield, Sussex in 1943, and educated at Trinity College School, Carlton University (1961-1965), he received his LLB (Magna Cum Laude and Gold Medallist) from the University of Ottawa (1965-1968). Prior to joining McMillan Binch he served as a Law Clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada (the Hon. Mr. Justice Roland A. Ritchie) and Special Assistant to the Director (now Commissioner) of the Canadian Bureau of Competition Policy.

He has practised at the Bar for 31 years, specializing in all aspects of international commercial law, including competition, contracts, banking, oil industry, insurance, corporate governance and arbitration law and practice. Listed as a leading expert in the antitrust and international arbitration fields by European and North American expert guides, he is also a noted author and frequent speaker on international competition law and policy issues. He is co-author (with Donald I. Baker) of Rowley & Baker: International Mergers - the Antitrust Process (3rd edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 2001). He chairs the International Bar Association's Global Forum on Competition Policy, is the past chairman of the IBA Antitrust and Trade Committee and is the immediate past chairman of the International Bar Association's Section on Business Law. He is a non-executive member of the board of directors of the CGNU Group Canada Ltd., and a past member of the board of governors of the International Capital Markets Group.

He is a member of the National Panel of Arbitrators for Canada, ICC, Paris and an alternate member of the Advisory Committee on Private Commercial Disputes of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He has chaired or participated as a tribunal member or counsel in numerous international and national arbitrations. These have involved a variety of national laws systems including those of England, many European states, China, Thailand and Canada, as well as New York, Delaware and California. In addition to ICC arbitrations, he has conducted cases under other rules such as those of UNCITRAL, the LCIA, the AAA and a number of domestic regimes. He is also a member of the London Court of International Arbitration. Further panel memberships include those of the American Arbitration Association, New York; the German Institute of Arbitration, Cologne; the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, Malaysia; The International Arbitral Centre, Vienna; The Indian Council of Arbitration, New Delhi; the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, Melbourne; and Singapore International Arbitration Centres, Singapore.

He is co-founder and a director of the Global Forum on Competition Trade Policy, London and Washington DC; serves as Editor-in-Chief, Business Law International, London, and as advisory board member of The Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report, Washington DC, and Competition Policy Record, Toronto; is antitrust editor, Canadian Law Newsletter, Washington DC, the Antitrust Report, New York, and is chairman, editorial advisory board of International Business Lawyer.

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