Leadership
Management with high level arbitration experience
Our leadership team has extensive experience including leadership roles in global corporations, expertise in applying behavioural sciences to conflicts, and direct involvement in significant international arbitration disputes.
Andrew T. Clarke - Chairman
Andrew T. Clarke - Chairman
Mr Clarke has acted as a senior lawyer and General Counsel for large, international companies operating around the world. He’s lived and worked in Indonesia, Turkey, America, Singapore, Qatar and the U.K. After graduating from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, he qualified as a barrister before becoming an in-house lawyer.
In addition to supervising major disputes involving international arbitration, Mr Clarke has been an active contributor to the legal profession. Appointments have included: Chair of the CCIAG (Corporate Counsels’ International Arbitration Group); Director and Court Member of the LCIA (London Court of International Arbitration), Governing Board of ICCA (International Council for Commercial Arbitration), Advisory Council to the Centre of Commercial Law Studies and the International Energy Institute at Queen Mary University London; Andrew is also on the Advisory Board of the Turkish Commercial Law Review and was appointed a Bencher of the Middle Temple in 2009. He retired as a barrister in 2020 and is no longer registered. He possesses a good command of Turkish, together with reasonable French and basic Indonesian.
Donald E. Vinson, PhD - Chief Executive Officer
Dr Vinson is recognized as a leading authority in the application of the Behavioural Sciences to the resolution of legal disputes. In the U.S., he is known for establishing the application of psychological principles and behavioural research methodologies for providing major companies and law firms with assistance for strategic advice in civil litigation and arbitration.
He is not a lawyer but an expert in human behaviour. His training in the social sciences includes an M.S. in Marketing Research, an M.A. in Sociology, and a PhD with an emphasis on the Psychology of Human Values, Attitudes and Decision Making. Dr Vinson has been a professor on the faculties of UCLA, the University of Southern California, a Visiting Professor of Law at the Tulane University of School of Law, and a member of the faculty of The Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg Austria. And he is the former Chairman of the Institute of Legal Reform at the United States Chamber of Commerce. Dr Vinson has written extensively on the application of psychology and behavioural research for the resolution of legal disputes.
Klaus Reichert, SC - Director and Member of Executive Committee
Mr. Reichert sits as an international arbitrator with extensive experience across a wide range of subject-matters, industries, governing laws and major institutional rules. He has served as chair, party-appointee or sole arbitrator in more than 250 international disputes, often with very high monetary claims, particularly in arbitrations pursuant to ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA and ICDR Rules.
In his work to date as an international arbitrator he has completed or is currently sitting in cases involving more than 24 sovereign states from all parts of the World, and has had multiple appointments under the Energy Charter Treaty. He frequently sits in commercial cases located in New York, London, Paris and Geneva. In 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators (US), being one of the few non-US arbitrators admitted to that body. He is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration based in Dallas.
*As a director of Arbitration Sciences Limited, Mr Reichert does not provide legal advice either to the company or to its clients. He does not participate in any of the company’s ArbitrationResearchPanel™ studies. Anyone seeking his legal advice or wishing to nominate him as an arbitrator should contact Brick Court Chambers in London.
Benjamin Kingston, JD - Chief Operating and Security Officer
Mr Kingston brings over two decades of legal expertise to ASL. He practised law in California, advising both emerging and established businesses on a wide range of legal matters, including corporate formation, financing, governance, intellectual property, labour issues, regulatory compliance, and privacy/data protection.
Between 2013 and 2020, Mr Kingston held the position of general counsel for two different organizations. Prior to that, he served as the chief legal officer for an alternative investment fund focused on litigation finance, where he managed investments and underwriting, and collaborated with outside counsel to maximize returns.
In line with ASL’s dedication to confidentiality and security, Mr Kingston is also responsible for operations and overseeing the cyber and electronic technology used by the company. This ensures the safeguarding of client data, information, and the secure exchange of communication between clients and the company.