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John W. Barnum
Counsel 
2001 K Street N.W.
jbarnum@mcguirewoods.comSuite 400 Washington, D.C. 20006-1040 F: 202.828.2971    |
Mr. Barnum's practice focuses on international arbitration and commercial litigation, antitrust and competition law, and transportation law. He is the former managing partner of the Almaty office and of McGuireWoods Kazakhstan LLP, which was a subsidiary of McGuireWoods LLP.
After he graduated from Yale University in 1949, he worked as a banker and broker in Tangier, Paris and London, graduated from Armor OCS and served in the U.S. Army in Germany and Korea. In 1957 he graduated from the Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and attended law school in Havana, Cuba.
From 1957 to 1962 Mr. Barnum was an associate and from 1963 to 1971 a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. From 1971 to 1977 he was General Counsel and then Deputy Secretary of Transportation in Washington, D.C. In 1978 he joined White & Case in Washington, D.C., where he remained a partner until joining McGuireWoods in Brussels in 1995.
He is a member of the Connecticut, New York and Washington, D.C. Bars, and has been admitted to the Foreign Lawyers List of the Brussels Bar. He speaks French and Spanish in addition to his native English.
- Former Managing Partner, Almaty Office
- Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, District of Columbia, 1977-1978; Visiting Fellow, 1978-1980
- White & Case, Partner, 1978-1994
- Regulation (AEI Publication), Editor, 1977-1978
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- Deputy Secretary, 1974-1977
- Under Secretary, 1973-1974
- General Counsel, 1971-1973
- NATO, Committee on Challenges to Modern Society, U.S. Delegate, 1973-1977
- Administrative Conference of the United States, Council Member, 1973-1977
- Council on Wage and Price Stability, Advisor/Member, 1974-1976
- Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission, U.S. Delegate, 1964-1971
- Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Partner, 1963-1971
- U.S. Army, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Division, Lieutenant, Armor, 1953-1954
- Bache & Co., Registered Representative, Paris and London, 1951-1952
- First Banking Corporation, Analyst, Tangier, 1950
- Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation, Customs Assistant, Lima, Peru, 1946
- Grace Lines, Junior Assistant Purser, 1946
- "Contractual Law and Agreements in Kazakhstan," Vienna, 4 December 1998
- "What Prompted Airline Deregulation 20 Years Ago? What Were the Objectives of That Deregulation and How Were They Achieved?" Presentation to the Aeronautical Law Committee of the Business Law Section of the International Bar Association at its Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C., 15 September 1998
- "Midwest Railroads and Northeast Lessons," Regulation, July/August 1978, and Handling and Shipping, August 1978
- Lecturer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2009-2010
- Vice President for North America, World Federation of Friends of Museums, 2006-
- U.S. Federation of Friends of Museums, President, 2002-2007; Trustee, 2002-
- Yale Club of Belgium, Board of Governors, 2008-2009
- American Club of Brussels, Board of Governors, 1998-2008
- International Bar Association, 1995-
- National Defense Transportation Association, 1976
- Lecturer, Practicing Law Institute, Antitrust Law Series, Venice 1969, Cologne 1970
- American Bar Foundation, 1965-
- American Arbitration Association, Board of Directors, 1963-1993
- NY State Bar Association, Chairman, Antitrust Law Section, 1966-1968
- Air France, International Advisory Committee, 1991-1993
- Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), Board of Overseers, 1990-1996
- Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), Board of Trustees, 1982-1994
- Palmer National Bank, Founder, Board of Directors, 1980-1995
- New York City Center for Music and Drama, Board of Directors, 1969-1974
- International Play Group (international preschool in NYC), Founder and Chairman, 1962-1973
- English
- French
- Spanish
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EDUCATION Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, LL.B., 1957
Instituto de Derecho Internacional y Comparativo, Havana, Cuba, 1957 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, B.A., 1949 ADMITTED Brussels 1995 District of Columbia 1978 New York 1958 Connecticut 1957 |