Born attended primary schools in France and Germany and completed his secondary education in the United States.
Born has practiced with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in London for the past several decades and has taught international dispute resolution at law schools in Europe, the United States, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere.
[5] Born again received the OGEMID "Book of the Year" award in 2010 for his International Arbitration and Forum Selection Agreements: Drafting and Enforcing.
He has represented multinational corporate groups in a number of major international commercial and other arbitrations during the past decade.
These included disputes involving Deutsche Telekom[10] and Vivendi and France Telecom, Repsol and Atlantic LNG 2/3, Shell Petroleum, Volkswagen, and others.
[12] Born represented the State of Eritrea against Yemen in an arbitration under PCA auspices concerning territorial sovereignty over a number of islands in the Red Sea.
Born was named the inaugural Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitor in 2012 at the National University of Singapore's Law School,[21] and has been invited to deliver the James E.C.
The 360-page novel is set in Africa, Italy, Switzerland and China, featuring Sara West, a young woman thrust into a web of international espionage.
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He befriends a former general, whose deathbed confession sends the former ganster in search of documents that could reshape the map of Asia.