News | July 14, 2025
The former NBPA Executive Director, based in Washington, DC, will lead Secretariat’s growing Global Sports Consulting capabilities.
Mr. Milburn has more than 25 years of experience quantifying economic damages and the valuation of business interests and financial investigations in international arbitrations, commercial litigation, insurance litigation, personal injury litigation, tax litigation, and consulting.
Chris Milburn has more than 25 years of experience quantifying economic damages and the valuation of business interests and financial investigations in international arbitrations, commercial litigation, insurance litigation, personal injury litigation, tax litigation, and consulting.
His work experience includes hundreds of matters relating to assets and business interests all over the world across many industries including mining, oil & gas, energy, financial services, infrastructure, real estate, asset management, manufacturing, software, and pharmaceuticals. He has prepared expert opinion reports on valuation and economic damages issues in disputes before Canadian, US, UK, and Australian domestic courts, and in commercial and investor-state/treaty arbitrations under many forums including the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). He has provided expert testimony numerous times on the quantification of economic damages, including in the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, the Court of King’s Bench of Manitoba, and international arbitration cases heard at the World Bank in Washington D.C., the World Bank in Paris, the New York International Arbitration Centre, Maxwell Chambers in Singapore and Arbitration Place in Toronto.
Mr. Milburn has been recognized as a leading expert in the field of damages and valuation in the International Who’s Who of Arbitration Expert Witnesses by Who’s Who Legal (WWL) since 2014 and has recently been ranked by WWL as a ‘Global Elite Thought Leader’ among arbitration expert witnesses. He has also been recognized as one of the leading arbitration expert witnesses in Canada in Who’s Who Legal Canada since its inception in 2015 and has been named to the list of top mining experts since the mining list began including experts in 2019. Comments on Mr. Milburn in the independent WWL publications include: “Chris is a top testifying expert and is simply excellent”; “A reliable and persuasive expert witness”; and,“He is careful, does not overstate his evidence, and is reasonable in his positions.”
Mr. Milburn is a Chartered Professional Accountant, Certified Management Accountant (CPA/CMA), a Chartered Business Valuator (CBV), and is a Qualified Valuator (QV)under the Canadian Institute of Mining’s Valuation Standards and Guidelines
“Chris is a top testifying expert and is simply excellent”
“A reliable and persuasive expert witness”
“He is careful, does not overstate his evidence, and is reasonable in his positions.”
The former NBPA Executive Director, based in Washington, DC, will lead Secretariat’s growing Global Sports Consulting capabilities.
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