Clare Ambrose is a full time arbitrator with wide ranging experience in commercial arbitration. She is a leading figure in maritime and commodities arbitration with an impressive commercial practice including in ICC, LCIA and SIAC arbitration.

Before becoming a full-time arbitrator in 2017 she built up 25 years’ experience of commercial litigation as a barrister with particular expertise in international trade and energy. As arbitrator she has had over 300 appointments in international arbitrations, sitting as chair, sole and co-arbitrator. Appointments have been made under the rules of the HKIAC LCIA, ICC, LMAA, SCMA, SIAC, SCC, the Swiss Arbitration Centre and UNCITRAL, and also on an ad hoc basis.

She has vast experience sitting as an arbitrator in complex and technical disputes relating to charters and contracts of affreightment, also shipbuilding and repair, offshore construction, long term energy supply agreements, ship sales and commodity trading. However, appointments also include broader commercial disputes, for example relating to joint operation, agency and management agreements, competition law, finance and banking services, construction projects, distribution agreements, professional negligence and share purchase agreements.

She is a full member of the LMAA, Fellow of CIArb and a Centre for Dispute Resolution (CEDR) accredited mediator, and was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge in 2018. She is a member of the ICC Commission and the UK ICC National Committee and is a coordinator on the current ICC Taskforce on issues of corruption in international arbitration.

She frequently lectures on arbitration issues and is co-author of the leading textbook on shipping arbitration, London Maritime Arbitration (4th edn, Informa 2017).

Publications

Review of the Arbitration Act 1996: Responses to the Law Commission Consultation Paper’, International Journal of Arb. Med. & Dispute Mgmt (2022) 88(4) 475-544

‘A Tale of Two Cities: virtual arbitration in the best of times, the worst of times’ (2020) Lexis Nexis

London Maritime Arbitration (2017) 4th edn, Informa

Series Editor of Lloyd’s Shipping Law Library (since 2016)