Chris Seppälä is an independent arbitrator, mediator and consultant for international commercial disputes. He founded the international arbitration practice of the Paris office of White & Case, where he was a partner for 35 years and has acted as counsel or arbitrator in hundreds of international commercial disputes including multi-billion dollar arbitration cases of the greatest legal and factual complexity. He has represented private corporations and banks, as well as sovereign states or state-owned entities (Algeria, Bulgaria, Egypt, Gabon, Guinea, Iran, Kuwait, Peru and Qatar), in international arbitrations, and has served as chair of the tribunal or co-arbitrator in numerous such cases. He began his legal career in the general practice group of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York.