DELOS ARBITRATION - Key Persons
Aisha Abdallah heads the Disputes Resolution department at Anjarwalla & Khanna. Her practice focuses on commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on fraud, economic crime and disputes over land, the environment and natural resources. Aisha is dual qualified as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and Solicitor of England and Wales. Aisha was appointed to the MARC Court in 2017, the ADR arm of the Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She is the lead author of the Kenyan chapter of the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th editions of the International Arbitration Review. She is also a member of the Africa Users Group for the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. Aisha is part of an expert team that has drafted Anti-Money Laundering, Remittances and Mobile Money Bills for Somaliland and is the lead author of the Kenya chapter of the 2018 Chambers Anti-Corruption Global Practice Guide. She is also the lead author of the ALN Anti-Corruption Guide 2019. Aisha provides training and writes and speaks on a wide range of contentious issues, including international arbitration, corruption, economic crime and pro bono work. Aisha is rated and recognised by both Chambers Global and Legal 500 for her work.
Alex Bevan is Shearman & Sterling's Global International Arbitration Practice Group Leader and Head of the Abu Dhabi office. He also leads the firm's Construction practice.
Alex specializes in complex international arbitration proceedings arising out of construction and development projects, investments, acquisitions and joint ventures. These disputes arise in a range of industries, in particular infrastructure, power, oil and gas and telecoms. He also regularly serves as Arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings.
Alex Bevan is recognized as Global Elite Thought Leader in Who's Who Legal - Construction 2022, which reports that he is "Simply one of the best in the industry" with a "huge amount of experience representing clients in the infrastructure, energy, and oil and gas sectors". "He is intelligent and focused on successfully representing and positioning his construction industry clients", "Alex has a huge amount of experience representing clients in the infrastructure, energy, and oil and gas sectors" and "He has an excellent reputation". Who's Who Legal - Arbitration 2022 recognizes him as a Global Leader, the publication notes that he "He has built up one of the best international arbitration practices in the construction field" and "Alex is bright and tough and knows the industry". Previous editions note that Alex Bevan "gets some of the biggest instructions and is experienced beyond his years in mega-project disputes".
Chambers Global also notes that clients and peers have described Alex as "widely noted for his broad construction practice. He has regional experience of representing both contractors and developers in significant arbitrations, most notably in the energy and oil and gas industries. One client observed: ‘He is a tenacious advocate and the go-to guy for big-ticket disputes in the Middle East'". He is also noted for having "extensive experience in international arbitrations, regularly representing major oil and gas clients". Previous editions note that he is "extremely able", a "go-to guy for major international arbitrations", and "a strategic thinker and a persuasive advocate" with "excellent relationship-building skills". Chambers UK describes him as a "clinical cross-examiner" with "invaluable strategic thinking". He has also been described as "outstanding - shrewd, hardworking and able". Alex is recommended in The Legal 500 EMEA and The Legal 500 UK.
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- Managing Director With Alvarez & Marsal
Andrew Flower is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations in Paris. He has more than 25 years of experience in forensic accounting and in providing expert evidence in international arbitration (commercial and investor state). He has been listed as a leading expert witnesses in international arbitration in Europe by "Who's Who Legal," since inception of the list and is equally recognised as a Thought Leader in International Arbitration.
Mr. Flower has provided expert evidence in arbitrations conducted under the auspices of institutions including ICC, ICDR, ICSID, DIAC, NAI, DIS, and under UNCITRAL rules. He has provided written evidence in over 150 disputes, and has testified and been cross-examined on his evidence before tribunals in New York, Washington DC, London, Paris, Stockholm, The Hague, Geneva, Zurich, Dubai, Singapore and Brisbane.
Throughout his career, Mr. Flower has also provided advice to parties in post transaction disputes, both in connection with arbitrations and in the context of expert determinations. He acted both as an advisor to one of the parties and as the appointed determining expert.
Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Flower was the global head of the disputes practice in one of the Big Four accounting firms working out of their Paris, New York and London offices. Mr. Flower has also been appointed as an independent expert by the ICC Centre of Expertise and as a tribunal appointed expert in an ICC arbitration. Mr. Flower has also acted as mediator in a royalty dispute.
In addition to his work in arbitration, Mr. Flower assisted Vivendi as a defendant in their long running class action suit in the New York Courts and has provided written expert evidence in matters before the English High Court. He was also one of the senior advisors to the Kuwait Government in the assessment of corporate claims for damages arising from the First Gulf War.
Mr. Flower earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of York. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and is a native English and fluent French speaker.
He was part of the expert faculty for the inaugural ROAP edition in 2020 and is part of the expert faculty for ROAP EMEA 2022.
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- Founding Partner at Chilean
Andrés Jana is founding partner at Chilean law firm Bofill Mir & Alvarez Jana. Between 1996 and 1998 he was the Director of Legal Studies of the Central Bank of Chile. He obtained his LL.M. from Harvard University and graduated summa cum laude from the Law School of the Universidad de Chile.
He has vast experience as counsel, arbitrator and expert in international disputes involving commercial, investment and international public law issues, before the International Court of Justice, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), and several ad hoc tribunals; as well as domestic courts in different jurisdictions.
Jana is the Chilean delegate before the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), where he participated in the revision and adoption of the UNCITRAL arbitration rules (2010, the rules of transparency in arbitrations between investors and states (2013) and currently chairs the work of the WG on Expedited Arbitration. He is on the Panel of Arbitrators for ICSID, a member of the Governing Board of ICCA, member of the Council of SIAC, member of the Latin American Arbitration Group of the ICC and founding member and former Vice-president of the Latin American Arbitration Association (ALARB), among others. A Professor of Law at Universidad de Chile since 1997, he regularly lectures and publishes on international disputes.
Mr. Jana is the Co-Chair for the ROAP LatAm 2022 edition.
Ank Santens is a partner in White & Case LLP's international arbitration group, based in New York. She serves as counsel or arbitrator in commercial, investment, and construction arbitrations around the world. She has been named a Thought Leader (Who's Who Legal Thought Leaders 2018), Most Highly Regarded Individual (Who's Who Legal Future Leaders 2017), Best in Commercial Arbitration (Euromoney's Americas Women in Business Law Awards 2016), and Global Rising Star of the Year (Euromoney's Global Arbitration Awards 2014). She is a Vice Chair of the IBA's Arbitration Committee, and serves on the Board of Directors of CPR and on the Executive Committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA) and the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA). She was a member of the ICCA-Queen Mary Task Force on Third Party Funding. She frequently lectures and publishes on international arbitration topics. During her tenure as Chair, the CPR Arbitration Committee published "The CPR Corporate Counsel Manual for Cross-Border Dispute Resolution" (2017). Ms. Santens holds law degrees from Columbia University (NY) and Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), and studied one year at the law faculty of the University of Granada (Spain). She is a member of the New York bar and a Solicitor of England and Wales. Her working languages are English, French, Spanish and Flemish/Dutch.
Anthony Theau Laurent is a partner at Accuracy. He provides advice and independent expertise on business, valuation and accounting matters in the context of disputes, transactions and frauds.
Anthony has been appointed as expert witness in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations and in English High Court proceedings. He is listed among the leading expert witnesses for quantum of damages by Who's Who Legal, according to which he "is frequently appointed on large-scale arbitrations for the strength of his oral testimony in proceedings" and "is praised for his hands-on approach and exceptional ability to identify and address sophisticated financial issues". He is able to testify in English and French.
Colin Johnson is a partner in HKA's fast growing Forensic Accounting and Commercial Damages (FACD) team based in London. Colin's career to date has seen him undertake roles as a project finance lawyer and consultant, a project developer and a project investor in emerging markets. He now applies this extensive project investment experience in his forensic work when acting as expert witness, valuer and advisor. Recognised by Who's Who Legal as a Global Leader, he has acted as expert witness on behalf of national governments, large companies, and entrepreneurs in international arbitrations and litigation on cases ranging up to US$50bn+ in claim value. His experience also extends to analysing, negotiating, and managing major projects (particularly energy related), having worked in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Colin is part of the faculty for the ROAP EMEA 2022 and ROAP LATAM 2022 editions.
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- PRACTITIONERS and in - HOUSE COUNSEL WITH PRACTICAL, SKILLS - BASED TRAINING
Welcome to Delos's advanced oral advocacy training programme in international arbitration. This consists of two courses: one on oral submissions, the other on cross-examination. Find out more here, meet our leading faculty for the Asia, Americas, Construction, EMEA and LATAM editions, and meet our talented participants for the Asia, Americas, Construction, EMEA and LATAM editions, both practising attorneys and testifying experts. If you would like to attend a mock hearing and follow the oral submissions live, you can find out more here.
Please meet the ROAP Steering Committee members. From left to right, and top to bottom, we are fortunate to have: Kate Brown de Vejar, Alex Bevan, Nadia Darwazeh, Vyapak Desai, Philip Dunham, Andrew Flower, Sandra González, James Hosking, Andrés Jana, Colin Johnson, Swee Yen Koh SC, Sofia Martins, Reza Mohtashami QC, Małgorzata Surdek, Anthony Theau Laurent, and Angeline Welsh KC. Their short bios are set out below.
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- Managing Partner and Co - Head of Litigation in Al Tamimi & Company
Dr. Hassan Arab is the deputy managing partner and Co-Head of Litigation in Al Tamimi & Company. He is a leading expert in all aspects of civil, commercial litigation and dispute resolution. Dr. Arab regularly sits as an arbitrator and advises on arbitration-related issues. He has extensive experience in providing expert opinions on the UAE laws before arbitration tribunals and foreign courts. He is on the panel of arbitrators for ICSID, ICC, SIAC, DIFC-LCIA, CRCICA, AIAC, DIAC and TAHKEEM. Dr Arab is a Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee of the ICC-UAE Commission on Arbitration and a member of the future Arbitration Court of the Casablanca International Mediation & Arbitration Centre. He is also a member to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and a member of the DIFC Court User's Committee. He is the author and co-author of a number of publications on arbitration and dispute resolution. In addition, Dr. Arab has authored several books including two volumes of the Civil Procedures Law in the UAE, Criminal Procedures Law in the UAE and has co-authored Summaries of UAE Courts' Decisions on Arbitration (ICC publication).
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- Founding Partner of New York
James Hosking is a founding partner of New York-based international dispute resolution boutique Chaffetz Lindsey where he leads the firm's international arbitration practice. In his 25-year career, James has been involved in more than 100 arbitrations as counsel, including proceedings under the ICC, AAA/ICDR, LCIA, ICSID, SIAC, HKIAC, CRCICA, WIPO, SCC and UNCITRAL Rules. His current cases involve disputes concerning construction/infrastructure projects, corporate acquisitions, energy/oil & gas projects, pharmaceuticals, licensing and distribution agreements, mining ventures and investment treaties. James's public international law practice has encompassed investor-state disputes, state-to-state arbitrations, advice on boundary issues and resource allocation, as well as work for multilateral organizations. James also regularly sits as an arbitrator, having been appointed to more than 40 tribunals, with experience as a sole arbitrator, presiding arbitrator, co-arbitrator and emergency arbitrator. Those disputes, seated around the world. have involved some 18 jurisdictions. James regularly writes and speaks on international arbitration. He is co-editor of the ICCA Report on comparative law issues arising from remote hearings (2021), co-author of the leading treatise Gusy & Hosking, A Guide to the ICDR International Arbitration Rules (OUP, 2011, 2019), and recently authored "Assessing the Probative Value of Evidence" in Ferrari and Rosenfeld (eds), Handbook of Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration: Key Issues and Concepts (Kluwer, 2022). James is currently an Adjunct Professor at NYU School of Law, and previously taught in the US, Mexico, Italy and New Zealand. James holds leadership positions in the international arbitration Bar, including on the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and as Co-Chair of the Publications Committee of the New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC). In addition, he is a Fellow of the Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand, was Co-Chair of the ICC Task Force on Emergency Arbitration Proceedings, and is a member of the ICDR Advisory Board. James's expertise is recognized annually in Who's Who of International Commercial Arbitration, Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Chambers Latin America, Legal 500 Latin America, and PLC Which Lawyer. Since 2019, he has been selected as a "Global Elite Thought Leader" by Who's Who, one of only a handful of practitioners to hold the distinction. James earned an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (2000) and B.A./LL.B (Hons.) from the University of Auckland (1990-1994). He is admitted in New York and in his native New Zealand.
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- Founding Partner of Miranda & Amado
Jose Daniel Amado is the founding partner of Miranda & Amado in Lima, Peru. Mr Amado graduated with greatest honors from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, where he has taught domestic and international arbitration for the last two decades. He holds an LLM from Harvard University, where was awarded the Laylin Prize of international law. As counsel, Mr Amado has participated in many of the largest business transactions and commercial and investment disputes involving Peru in the last few decades. In 2009, Latin Lawyer magazine named Mr Amado as its Law Firm Leader of the Year. Mr Amado has also served in various capacities within the Government of Peru, including as deputy to the prime minister and chief of advisors to the council of ministers. Mr Amado regularly sits as an arbitrator in Peru and other venues, and has been a member of the Court of Arbitration of the Lima Chamber of Commerce. In recent years, Mr Amado has been a Visiting Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre of International Law and the University of Cambridge's Centre for Latin American studies. His recent publications include Arbitrating the Conduct of International Investors (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
May Tai is the Managing Partner, Asia, at Herbert Smith Freehills. She specialises in cross-border China-related and regional Asian disputes, as well as contentious regulatory matters. She regularly advises governments, government-owned entities and commercial clients (including financial institutions and energy companies) in Asia, Europe and the United States, including acting as counsel and advocate in arbitrations under various rules and court proceedings. She has acted as arbitrator in SIAC and HKIAC proceedings, and has also sat as an Emergency Arbitrator under the ICC Rules. May speaks five languages fluently, including Bahasa (Malaysian and Indonesian), Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) and English. She is a CEDR accredited mediator and an arbitrator in the HKIAC List of Arbitrators, and is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales, and Hong Kong. May is based in Hong Kong but divides her time between Herbert Smith Freehills' nine Asia offices in her role as managing partner for the region.
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- Member of the ICC Commission
Nadia Darwazeh has over twenty years of experience acting as counsel and sitting as arbitrator in commercial and investor-state arbitrations covering numerous applicable laws and seats of arbitration.
Before joining Clyde & Co, Nadia practiced in the International Arbitration Groups of leading international law firms based in Paris, Frankfurt and London. She also spent five years in Shanghai, where her practice focused on acting as counsel in disputes under the major regional arbitration rules including SIAC, HKIAC and CIETAC. Nadia also has deep ICC expertise, having led the Europe, Middle East, Africa team at the ICC for a period of three years, during which she oversaw more than 400 ICC arbitrations.
Nadia was awarded the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) Prize for Advocacy in International Commercial Arbitration in 2022, a prize awarded every two years to a chosen individual with "exceptional talents in advocacy".
Clients have described Nadia as "innovative, pragmatic and a true leader", "a real strategist" and "a very strong cross-examiner", praising that she is "business-minded and sees the bigger picture, which is great from a client perspective" (Chambers & Partners) and that "she is extremely articulate, clear and compelling in her arguments" (Who's Who Legal).
Nadia is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and the ICC Taskforce on Addressing Issues of Corruption in International Arbitration.
Nadia is dual-qualified in England & Wales (Solicitor-Advocate) and Germany (Rechtsanwältin). She earned her LLM in International Public Law from the University of Cambridge and her LLB from the University of Warwick. She conducts arbitrations in French, German and English and speaks Mandarin Chinese and Dutch. Nadia is a German and Dutch national.
Neil Kaplan has been a full-time practising arbitrator since 1995. He has been involved in several hundred arbitrations as arbitrator. Called to the Bar of England in 1965, Mr. Kaplan has practiced as a barrister, Principal Crown Counsel at the Hong Kong Attorney General's Chambers, and served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in charge of the Arbitration List. He was Chair of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) for 13 years and President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) in 1999/2000. Since 2017 he has been the President of the Court of the Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry Arbitration and Mediation Centre (MARC).
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- Independent Business Consultant
Paul Werné is an independent business consultant focussing on business developments in Africa and the Middle East. Paul has been working as Legal or General Counsel for major international groups, mainly in the field of telecommunications. After spending many years in the Orange - France Telecom group, successively as General Counsel for its Directory and Advertising, then its Satellite Transmission and Broadcast line of business, and finally as General Counsel for the group's non-European operations, he moved to the Middle East where he held the position of Group General Counsel of the United Arab Emirates' national telecommunications operator, Etisalat, for 8 years, during which Etisalat substantially updated and enhanced its strategy, increased its global reach and ambitiously developed new technologies and activities. Paul has extensive experience in creating, reorganising and managing international legal teams, in mergers and acquisitions, company law, corporate governance and dispute resolution.
Philip Dunham has concentrated his practice in international arbitration since 1992. His principal activity has been acting as counsel in numerous commercial and investment treaty arbitrations, whether ad hoc (including under the UNCITRAL Rules), or under the rules of the ICC, the LCIA, the SCC, or ICSID. Mr. Dunham has particular experience advising on construction and engineering disputes covering a broad range of commercial, industrial and infrastructure projects. Mr. Dunham also has extensive experience handling joint venture, oil & gas, energy, and military procurement disputes in respect of which he has regularly acted for and against state entities. Mr. Dunham has also served as arbitrator (including as an emergency arbitrator) in several significant arbitrations.
Mr. Dunham is a regular speaker at various conferences and seminars on international arbitration in Europe, Asia, and the United States. He has also published numerous articles on international arbitration. Mr. Dunham is admitted to England and Wales Bar and registered as a Foreign Lawyer at the Paris Bar. He is fluent in English and French.
Mr. Dunham was part of the faculty for the inaugural ROAP edition in 2020 and is the Co-Chair for the ROAP EMEA 2022 edition.
Prof. David D. Caron served as a Member of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, until his passing in February 2018; he also served as a Judge ad hoc on the International Court of Justice. He was previously the Dean of the Dickson Poon School of Law of King's College London and, until his passing, was a member of the faculty. Prof. Caron was a member of the court of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Institut de Droit International and the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. He was further a member of Chambers at 20 Essex Street and a Bencher of Inner Temple. He was formerly the C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, at Berkeley, and had served as the President of the American Society of International Law from 2010 to 2012. Prof. Caron received his Doctorate in Law from the University of Leiden. Prof. Caron was the dedicatee of the inaugural edition of Delos's Remote Oral Advocacy Programme (ROAP), which took place in 2020 (see, further, here and here). A panel was held in his honour to celebrate his work and legacy, which you can watch here. Find out more about his life here and contribute to the David D. Caron Fund here.
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- Special Counsel at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale
Prof. Maxi Scherer is Special Counsel at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP and regularly sits as arbitrator. She also holds the Chair for International Arbitration, Dispute Resolution and Energy Law at Queen Mary, University of London, and is Queen Mary's Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies in Paris and of the LLM in Paris programme. Prof. Scherer further acts as the General Editor of the Kluwer Journal of International Arbitration. In addition, Prof. Scherer chairs the Delos Guide to Arbitration Places (GAP). She was previously Global Professor of Law at NYU Law School, Visiting Professor at SciencesPo Law School Paris and Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown Centre of Transnational Legal Studies.
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- FOUNDING ADVISOR
- Founding Partner of Mayer Greenberg
- Professor
Prof. Pierre Mayer is a founding partner of Mayer Greenberg. He acts as an independent arbitrator and occasionally as counsel. He was previously a partner at Dechert, after having spent many years as counsel at Coudert Brothers and Clifford Chance. He was formerly the President of the International Academy for Arbitration Law, the President of the French Committee on International Private Law, the President of the Committee on International Commercial Arbitration of the International Law Association (ILA) and the President of the Committee on Private International Law of the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA). Prof. Mayer also taught arbitration, international law and contract law for close to 30 years at the University Paris-I Panthéon Sorbonne. Prof. Mayer is a Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law and an Associate Member of the Institut de Droit International. Find out more here.
Reza Mohtashami KC is a partner in the London office of Three Crowns. He has represented clients as counsel and advocate in more than 80 arbitrations conducted under a variety of arbitration rules in many different jurisdictions. Reza has particular expertise in disputes arising in emerging markets with a focus on the telecoms, energy and infrastructure sectors. Prior to Three Crowns he worked in the arbitration practice of a leading international arbitration firm where he established and led the firm's global arbitration practice in the Middle East. Reza is a Vice-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee, trustee of the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre, a trustee of the BCDR-AAA, and editorial board member of the ICC Dispute Resolution Bulletin and Global Arbitration Review. He is the immediate past president of the LCIA Arab Users' Council. Reza is a qualified English solicitor-advocate and was appointed Queen's Counsel in recognition of his advocacy skills in 2018. He is recognised as a Thought Leader in arbitration by Who Who's Legal with Chambers and Partners describing him as "very capable, intelligent and hard-working" and the "real deal." He speaks English, French and Farsi.
Mr. Mohtashami was part of the faculty for the inaugural ROAP edition in 2020 and is part of the faculty for ROAP EMEA 2022.
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- Global Co - Head of International Arbitration at Linklaters
Roland Ziadé is the Global Co-Head of International Arbitration at Linklaters and a member of the Paris, New York and Beirut Bars. He acts as counsel in both commercial and investment arbitration cases and has acted as arbitrator in over 50 arbitral proceedings. Roland is the current President of ICC-France Committee on the selection and appointment of arbitrators and was a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration for 9 years (2009-2018). He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA), the Bureau of the French Arbitration Committee (CFA), the Executive Committee of the Harvard Club of France, as well as various arbitral organizations and working groups. Roland teaches arbitration at Paris Saclay University, Paris II (Assas) University, as well as at Sciences Po. He is the author of numerous publications and articles on international arbitration. Roland holds an LLM from Harvard Law School (Fulbright Scholar), as well as postgraduate degrees from Assas and Sorbonne Universities. In 2017, GAR ranked Roland in the top three worldwide on the list of partners below 45 and in 2018 he was selected by Who's Who Legal among the 10 leading and most highly regarded arbitration counsels and arbitrators in France. He is also consistently recognized as one of the most active dispute resolution lawyers in the Middle East and in Africa (Chambers Global and Jeune Afrique), as well as a Global Elite Thought Leader for international arbitration (Who's Who Legal 2019 and 2020). His working languages are English, French and Arabic.
Sandra González chairs FERRERE's Dispute Resolution practice in its offices in Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. She represents clients in a wide range of industries in commercial and investment arbitration under several arbitration rules and institutions. She has recently represented clients in construction, oil & gas, ports, mining and regulated markets cases. Sandra González also sits as arbitrator; she has arbitrated cases under different applicable laws, seats and institutions on infrastructure projects, M&A and construction.
Ms. González is Uruguay's alternate member to the ICC Arbitration Court, a member of the Observatory on the Status of Arbitration of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Arbitraje (ALARB), vicechair of the Capítulo Rioplatense of the Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA) and founding member and member of the Executive Committee of WWA - Women Way in Arbitration LATAM. She chaired the Latin America Chapter of the International Section of the New York State Bar Association and was Uruguay's representative to the membership committee of the International Section of the American Bar Association.
Sandra González was Deputy Director of law at ORT University (Uruguay) and teaches various university courses in arbitration and international law in Uruguay and abroad. She earned her law degree from the Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de la República (Uruguay) and her LL.M. from Harvard Law School (USA).
She is the Co-Chair for the ROAP LATAM 2022 edition.
Sofia Martins heads the disputes practice at Miranda & Associados. She sits on the board of the Portuguese Arbitration Association since 2014. She has also been an officer of the IBA Arbitration Committee and co-editor of the IBA International Arbitration Guide since March 2017 and is a member of the ICC Arbitration and ADR Committee. In July 2020 she was appointed to chair the board of the arbitration Center of Concórdia. Previously she was one of the co-chairs for CEA-40 and APASub40, having also sat on the board of the Arbitration Centre of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2012 - 2019).
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- Partner in the Commercial
Swee Yen Koh SC is a partner in the commercial and corporate disputes, and international arbitration practices at WongPartnership LLP. Ms Koh is the Vice-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee. She is also the Vice-Chair of the IPBA Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee, and a member of the editorial board of the ICC Dispute Resolution Bulletin and the ICCA-ASIL Task Force on Damages.
Ms Koh is recommended as a leading practitioner in various legal publications, including The Legal 500, Chambers Global and Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific. She has been listed as one of the world's leading arbitration practitioners in Who's Who Legal: Arbitration 2021 and as a recognised expert in Commercial Arbitration in Experts Guides 2019: The World's Finest Lawyers Chosen By Their Peers. Legal 500 says that Ms Koh is the "go-to disputes lawyer in Singapore", with an "ability to zone right in on the issues with precision and confidence".
Ms Koh is the Co-Chair for the ROAP Asia 2022 edition.
Toby Landau QC is a barrister and arbitrator, and a member of the Bars of England & Wales, Singapore, New York, the BVI and Northern Ireland, and is registered in the DIFC. He was the first QC to be admitted as a full member of the Singapore Bar, and practices from Duxton Hill Chambers in Singapore and as a Sole Practitioner in London. As Counsel, he has argued hundreds of major international commercial and investor-State arbitrations, as well as many ground-breaking arbitration cases in the Courts of England, Singapore, Pakistan and the Caribbean. As Arbitrator, he has extensive experience sitting in commercial and investor-State disputes worldwide. He is Visiting Professor at Kings College London; Vice President of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre; Court Member of the LCIA and the SIAC; Fellow of the CIArb; UK delegate to the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration (1994-2013); and a draftsman of the English Arbitration Act 1996; the Pakistan Arbitration (International Investment Disputes) Ordinance, 2006; the Mauritius International Arbitration Act 2008, as well as many institutional rules. He holds a first-class law degree and a first class BCL from Oxford University (Eldon Scholar), and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (Kennedy Scholar).
Valeria Galíndez, a dual national of Brazil and Argentina, has focused her practice on arbitration since 2001. She founded Galíndez Arb in 2019, after having worked in some of the most prestigious Brazilian and international firms in Paris, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Valeria has acted as counsel in more than 50 cases and as arbitrator in over 65 proceedings. She has been particularly active in commercial cases involving construction, energy (including eolic and solar energy), joint ventures and corporate acquisition matters. Valeria has also been acting as arbitrator in investment cases administered by ICSID and the PCA. Since 2009, Valeria has been consistently recognized as one of the most notable practitioners in Latin America (Chambers Global and Who's Who Legal). In 2021, she was the sole Latin American female ranked as "Most in Demand Arbitrators" in the region by Chambers Global. Valeria is the current Senior Vice-Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association. She is also a member of the ICC Latin American Arbitration Group; the Board of Editors of the ICC Bulletin in Dispute Resolution; and the ICC Task Force on "Addressing Issues of Corruption in International Arbitration". Valeria speaks Portuguese, Spanish, English and French.
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- of Nishith Desai Associates, Mumbai
Vyapak Desai heads the International Dispute Resolution and Investigation Practice at the multi-skilled, research and strategy driven international law firm, Nishith Desai Associates. A senior attorney with the firm, Vyapak specializes in bringing in the highest level of analytical and innovative input in cross border, complex contentious matters, corporate/regulatory investigations while also leading the Corporate and Securities practice in the past at the firm.
Vyapak's vast experience includes representing clients as Counsel in a host of complex cases including investment treaty arbitrations, commercial disputes related to shareholders agreements, international trade and contractual disputes across industries such as oil & gas, infrastructure, private equity, Pharma & Healthcare and TMT, in India, and all over the world. Vyapak has also cultivated expertise in bankruptcy, corporate and securities laws as well as in white-collar crimes. Known for his innovative, pragmatic and solution-oriented approach, he is also a trained mediator/conciliator and acts as arbitrator across international jurisdictions such as London, Singapore, Malaysia and India.
Expert in Constitutional, Commercial, and International Law, Vyapak has helped shape key insights within these practice areas. Vyapak is the Co-chair-council of MCIA, Director of CIArb India Branch, Convener - Indian Arbitration Forum (IAF), member of ICC India Group, Co-chair of Society of Construction Law- India (Western India Chapter), Advisory Board at MARC, Mauritius, Member of IBA, IPBA and the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa. He has also been listed on the Panel of Arbitrators of SIAC, AIAC LCIA, THIAC, MCX/NCDEX (SEBI), and BVI IAC. Vyapak has also co-authored a chapter on Enforcing Arbitral Awards in India published by Lexis-Nexis 2017.