Mr. Barnum’s practice focuses on international arbitration and commercial litigation, antitrust and competition law, and transportation law. He is also the managing partner of the Almaty office and of McGuireWoods Kazakhstan LLP, which is 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.

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.