Max Bonnell
Maxwell Thomas Bennett Bonnell (born 1962) is an Australian lawyer and cricket historian. Career Max Bonnell attended Trinity Grammar School in Sydney (winning the Lawrence Campbell Oratory Competition in 1979) before studying Arts and Law at the University of Sydney. He also studied at the University of Warwick where he completed a master's degree in European Renaissance drama. He was appointed an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Sydney in 2009. He is a lawyer specialising in international arbitration. He was a partner in the Sydney office of the law firm King & Wood Mallesons for 18 years until he joined White & Case in 2017. In 2019 he joined the Sydney firm Henry William Lawyers. At the 2016 Australian ADR Awards, he was named International ADR Practitioner of the Year. He has acted as an Australian delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. He was counsel for the successful claimant in White Industries v India, the first successful ISDS claim made against India. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration. In 2020, he became one of the first arbitrators included