Mark C. Morril is an independent arbitrator and mediator based in New York City. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. He is ranked Band One by Chambers USA Nationwide for International Arbitration and is a Certified Mediator of the International Mediation Institute (IMI).
Mr. Morril has served as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and chair in matters involving, among other subjects, complex commercial contracts, patents, insurance, telecommunications, oil and gas equipment, construction, mergers and acquisitions, commodities, partnerships, joint ventures, copyrights, trademarks, media and entertainment, Internet and Internet domain names and new technologies. He has served as an emergency arbitrator and has mediated numerous large commercial disputes.
Previously, he served for ten years as General Counsel of Simon & Schuster, then the largest English language publisher in the world, and for thirteen years as Deputy General Counsel of the global media company Viacom. Viacom’s businesses comprise Paramount Pictures and 170 cable TV channels and multiplatform properties (including MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, COMEDY CENTRAL and BET) and formerly included CBS Broadcasting, CBS Radio, Viacom Outdoor, Showtime, Simon & Schuster and the discontinued industrial operations of Westinghouse, Gulf+Western and Charter Oil. He managed Viacom’s large worldwide law department and was responsible for the enterprise-wide disputed matters docket.
Mr. Morril is a CPR Distinguished Neutral and is on the roster of other leading dispute resolution institutions worldwide, including the AAA, ICDR, the ICC and the LCIA. He is a United States Representative to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. He is a member of the ICCA-NYC Bar-CPR Working Group on Cybersecurity in International Arbitration and of the New York City Bar Working Group on Third Party Funding in Litigation. He also served on the ICC’s Task Forces on Emergency Arbitrator Proceedings and on the Role of In-House Counsel in Dispute Resolution. He is on the Advisory Board of the LLM Program at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy.
