Personal bio
Now in his 22nd year as a neutral focused on complex business disputes, international and domestic, Mr. Goldstein has served in more than 120 cases as an arbitrator and more than 100 cases as a mediator. Major business and industry sectors in Mr. Goldstein’s work as a neutral include aviation, banking and finance, construction-engineering, life sciences and information technology.
Mr. Goldstein had a 35-year career as an advocate in U.S. litigation and international arbitration, practicing and ultimately leading the international arbitration practices at Proskauer Rose (1980-2003) in New York and Paris and Hodgson Russ in New York and Toronto (2004-2007). He was an editor of the Law Review at the University of Virginia Law School (Class of 1980), and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (magna cum laude in 1976).
Mr. Goldstein is perennially peer-review ranked in Chambers Global and Chambers USA as one of America’s leading international arbitrators, and is also peer recognized in 2026 (as in all prior years since 2010) in the rankings of Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal), in 2026 for the second consecutive year in Lexology’s “Thought Leader” category for the USA arbitration market, and in its newly-established “Highly Recommended” category for international arbitration globally