Board of Directors
Kevin O'Gorman
Kevin O'Gorman is the Partner-in-Charge of Norton Rose Fulbright’s Houston office and serves as the US Head of Arbitration.
Kevin is recognized globally as a leader in the resolution of international disputes in arbitration and litigation. Kevin has particular experience with commercial, energy, sovereign, treaty and project disputes. He has handled cases before the leading arbitration bodies and has appeared in numerous US courts. Kevin also has served as arbitrator in domestic and international cases for over a decade.
Kevin is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce Commission on Arbitration and ADR and chairs the southern subcommittee of the USCIB/ICC USA arbitration committee. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, and serves on the Boards of the Center for American and International Law, the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston, and the Christus Foundation for Healthcare. Kevin previously held senior leadership positions in the American Bar Association International Law Section.
Earlier in his career, Kevin was based in Zurich as Team Leader and Senior Legal Secretary to the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland that resolved claims to Holocaust-era Swiss bank accounts. After law school at the University of Michigan, Kevin clerked for the Honorable Howell Cobb, US District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas. Kevin is qualified to practice in Texas, New York and England and Wales (Solicitor), and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.