Steven Skulnik

Personal Bio

Job Title: Arbitrator

Areas of Expertise:

Steven Skulnik is a senior legal editor in the Litigation and Arbitration Services of Thomson Reuter's Practical Law service. In that capacity he writes and edits legal know-how resources that help law firm lawyers, in-house counsel and arbitrators.

Representative matters as an arbitrator:

Chair of the tribunal in a dispute between an educational testing service and software developer (AAA).

Chair of the tribunal in a dispute over a hotel franchise agreement (AAA).

Chair of the tribunal in a dispute between a compiler of data on recycled automobile parts and manufacturer of automobile part information systems (AAA).

Chair of the tribunal in a dispute between parties who owned the same trademark in different territories over the reasonableness of termination of a license agreement (AAA).

Sole arbitrator in a dispute between a buyer and seller of commercial real estate in Europe (ICDR).

Sole arbitrator in a dispute over loss of Central American mining concession (ICDR).

Sole arbitrator in a dispute under an agreement to distribute women's apparel (ICDR).

Sole arbitrator in a dispute between co-venturers in renewable energy (biogas) projects over buy-out and drag-along rights provisions (AAA).

Sole arbitrator in a dispute between a litigation funder and funded party over division of settlement
proceeds (ICDR).

Sole arbitrator in a dispute over fair market value of distribution rights under New York’s Alcohol Beverage Control Law (AAA).

Sole arbitrator in a dispute between investment banker and his former employer (AAA).

Sole arbitrator in a dispute between a local exchange carrier and a telecommunications billing aggregator (AAA).

Co-arbitrator in dispute between investors in merchant cash advance business (ICDR).

Co-arbitrator in dispute between international mining company and its local representative in the South
Caucasus (ICDR).

Co-arbitrator in dispute between US fashion house and European licensee for sleepwear (ICDR).