Why Choose Stockholm: Reflections of an English Lawyer After Eighteen Years Practising International Arbitration in Sweden

Abstract

Sixteen years ago, in February 2009, I published an article in the Stockholm Interna tional Ar bitra tion Review, with the following somewhat-unusual title, “Why choose Stockholm: reflections of an English lawyer after two years of practising international arbitration in Sweden”. 
   A brief explanation is called for. After over 10 years practising international arbitration in the City of London, I moved to Stockholm in June 2006, together with my Swedish wife and our young family. The plan was to live in Stockholm for a few years while our children were small, but we ended up staying put. I became a Swedish advokat and a partner of Vinge, and I became more and more involved in the arbitration community in Stockholm. Among other things, I have served on the Executive Committee of the Swedish Arbitration Association, and I have been a member of the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (recently renamed the SCC Arbitration Institute, the “SCC”). I am currently co-head of the SCCL Research Panel for Arbitration and Other Forms of Dispute Resolution. Time flies, as the saying goes.