Michael Arada Greenop is a senior associate in the Litigation/Controversy Department and is a member of the International Arbitration Practice Group. Mr. Greenop’s practice focuses on commercial and investment treaty arbitration cases. He has represented clients in arbitrations under most of the leading institutional rules across a range of industries and in jurisdictions spanning Europe, Asia, The Americas, Africa and the Middle East. Mr. Greenop also has experience advising governments and arbitral institutions on the drafting of arbitration legislation and institutional arbitration rules including the arbitrateAD Arbitration Rules (shortlisted by GAR for “Best New Development” in 2023) and Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation Arbitration Rules (shortlisted by GAR for “Best New Development” in 2022).

Mr. Greenop is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and was admitted as the youngest Fellow of the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand (and co-founder of its young members’ group). He serves as the Co-Chair of the Task Forces and Coordinator of the Rules Standing Committee of the Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation. Mr. Greenop also hosts the annual Africa Arbitration Academy’s Flagship Training Programme at WilmerHale and serves as one of the expert trainers of the International Commercial Arbitration Training and Certification programme at the Strathmore Dispute Resolution Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.

Mr. Greenop regularly speaks on international arbitration and international law topics, and is an Adjunct Professor of Comparative Law at Pepperdine Caruso Law School’s London Campus. He has published widely on topical arbitration and public international law issues in peer-reviewed legal journals, including the Journal of International Arbitration, Cambridge International Law Journal and Max Plank Yearbook of United Nations Law and has received awards including the Young ITA Writing Award in 2023. Mr. Greenop also assisted with the preparation of the second edition of New Zealand’s leading text on arbitration, Williams & Kawharu on Arbitration.

Prior to joining WilmerHale, Mr. Greenop worked at a leading international dispute resolution firm in London and as an employed barrister at one of New Zealand’s leading commercial sets. He has also served as tribunal secretary and as a judicial law clerk.