Adam David Wahlquist

Adam Wahlquist is a dispute resolution practitioner with 19 years of legal experience in litigation and arbitration. He maintains an active litigation practice in Utah and California while building a growing arbitration practice as both counsel and arbitrator. Mr. Wahlquist has been appointed as arbitrator in multiple consumer, securities, and commercial disputes. He is a member of the panels for the AAA-ICDR, FINRA, NAM, and Dubai International Arbitration Centre.

As arbitration counsel, Mr. Wahlquist has represented clients before leading institutions including the AAA-ICDR, ICC, SIAC, VIAC, and JAMS, as well as in ad hoc proceedings. His experience spans disputes ranging from $25,000 to $44 million across diverse industries and formats, including large multi-party matters, emergency relief arbitrations, and fully virtual proceedings. Recent matters include a IP hearing before VIAC, an ICC construction arbitration seated in Ghana, and a multi-party SIAC arbitration seated in Singapore involving cross-border commercial contract claims.

Mr. Wahlquist also maintains an active litigation practice in state and federal courts, handling complex commercial disputes, class actions, securities matters, and real estate and construction litigation. His recent litigation work includes bench trials, class action proceedings, complex motion practice, and preliminary injunction hearings.

Mr. Wahlquist is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and holds a Master in International Dispute Settlement degree from the University of Geneva/IHEID. He serves as adjunct professor of international arbitration at BYU Law School, where he lectures on international commercial and investment arbitration and supports the university’s International Commercial Arbitration Academies in Singapore and Geneva. He has completed the ICC Advanced Arbitration Academy for North America and holds FIAA certification in cross-examination.

Mr. Wahlquist is fluent in French and has lived abroad in Geneva, Switzerland, and Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He has represented clients in international matters involving parties from Australia, Austria, Bermuda, Canada, China, France, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Slovakia, the UK, and Vietnam. Prior to joining Kirton McConkie as a shareholder, he practiced business litigation in California and served as a federal judicial law clerk in the District of Arizona.

Education

• Master in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) (University of Geneva/IHEID), MA, Advanced Studies in International Dispute Settlement, 2020
• University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, JD, 2006
• University of Utah, BA, French Literature, 2003

• California
• United States Court of International Trade
• United States District Court for the District of Utah
• United States District Court, Southern District of California
• United State District Court for the Eastern District of California
• United States Tax Court
• Utah

• Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Earl H. Carroll, United States District Court, District of Arizona, 2006-2007

• Utah Legal Elite: Civil Litigation (2021)