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Dr. Yas BANIFATEMI Dr. Yas Banifatemi is a partner in Shearman & Sterling’s International Arbitration Group and leads the firm’s Public International Law Practice. She is also a member of the Firm’s 9-member Policy Committee. She advises and represents States, State-owned entities and companies on both public international law and international arbitration issues. She has acted as counsel and arbitrator in arbitration cases under the ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, SCC, CRCICA and Swiss Arbitration Rules, with particular focus on investment protection, oil & gas and general commercial matters. Dr. Banifatemi has been praised as being a “star performer,” a “brilliant lawyer with a sharp intellect” and a “prominent figure in international arbitration,” also “having a considerable presence in public international law” in Chambers Global. Clients also commented on the “clarity of her opinions,” describing her as “incredibly impressive all round” and a “reliable and robust advocate” having a “thorough understanding of the law she practices.” She appeared in the “45 Under 45” feature of American Lawyer’s January 2011 issue, a ranking of “The Best and the Brightest” female lawyers under 45, and in the “45 Under 45” feature of Global Arbitration Review’s August 2011 issue, a global ranking of the leading figures of the international arbitration bar under 45. |
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Prof. Robert BECKMAN Robert Beckman is the Director of the Centre for International Law (CIL) and the head of its programme in Ocean Law and Policy. He heads the CIL Research Projects on Submarine Cables and Law of the Sea and on International Maritime Crimes. Prof Beckman is also an associate professor in the NUS Faculty of Law. He currently teaches Public International Law and Ocean Law & Policy in Asia. He also teaches a module on International Law & Singapore Law in the first year compulsory course, Singapore Legal System. In addition to his current subjects, he has taught International Legal Process, International Regulation of Shipping, Maritime Security & International Law, Marine Environmental Law, Space Law & Policy and United Nations Law. |
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Professor Chester BROWN Professor Chester Brown is Professor of International Law and International Arbitration at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney; a Barrister at 7 Wentworth Selborne Chambers, Sydney and an overseas associate of Essex Court Chambers, London, and Maxwell Chambers, Singapore. He teaches and researches in the fields of public international law, international dispute settlement, international arbitration, international investment law, and private international law. He also maintains a practice in these fields, and has been involved as counsel in proceedings before the International Court of Justice, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, inter-State and investor-State arbitral tribunals, as well as in international commercial arbitrations. |
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Mr. Rodman BUNDY Mr. Rodman Bundy is a Director in our Dispute Resolution group with over thirty years of experience as counsel and advocate in high profile public international law litigations and international commercial and investment arbitrations, including appearances before the International Court of Justice, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and various ad hoc, ICC and ICSID arbitral tribunals. Rodman recently relocated from our Paris office to the Singapore office. On the non-contentious side, Mr. Bundy has extensive experience advising international energy companies and national oil companies on upstream oil and gas matters, including production sharing and joint operating agreements, service agreements, domestic and international unitization and the risks associated with petroleum operations carried out in disputed offshore areas. Clients include governments, multinational energy companies, construction companies and State-owned entities. Mr. Bundy lectures on international boundary disputes at King’s College, London and boundary workshops organized by the International Boundaries Research Unit, and is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and workshops on issues of public international law, upstream oil and gas operations and construction disputes. He is also the author of numerous articles on these kinds of issues. Mr. Bundy is named as leading individual in Dispute Resolution – International Arbitration by Chambers and Chambers Europe (2013). He is also named as key individual in Dispute Resolution – Commercial Litigation by Chambers Europe (2013). Mr. Bundy is listed Band 1 individual in Public International law by Chambers (2012, 2013), describing him as “one of the most experienced PIL practitioners in the market”. He is named as leading individual in Dispute Resolution – International Arbitration and Public International law by Legal 500 (2013). In 2013, Mr. Bundy was named by Les Echos as best arbitration lawyer in France. |
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Ms Cindy BUXTON Ms. Cindy Buxton, born and brought up in the UK, although has spent most of her working life abroad. She is now in London, operating from the London office for Z-Axis. Cindy joined Z-Axis in early 1997 after a successful career in the British television industry, where for twenty-five years she directed and filmed documentaries for the famous Survival series of Anglia Television. The films are distributed to more than 110 countries. She has won three major awards for her work, published two books, a scientific paper and written numerous articles in various natural history magazines. One of her many talents is in thoroughly researching and working closely with lawyers, barristers and experts so that she fully understands a project or case that she is involved with which enables her to assist the producer with the necessary visual presentations. With eight years as a producer under her belt, her role as Z-Axis’s UK consultant, has proved to be very beneficial to her clients. |
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Mr. Jansen CALAMITA Mr. N. Jansen Calamita is Director of the Investment Treaty Forum and Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Mr Calamita also holds the post of Lecturer in International Law at the University of Birmingham. Prior to joining the Institute, Mr Calamita was a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. He has held visiting positions at the University of Vienna, Mansfield College, Oxford, and George Mason University. Mr Calamita has served in the Office of the Legal Adviser in the U.S. Department of State (International Claims and Investment Disputes), representing the United States before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and in bilateral investment matters, and in the Office of Legal Affairs at the United Nations in Vienna as a member of the UNCITRAL Secretariat working on arbitration issues. Prior to joining the U.N, he was in private practice in New York, specializing in international arbitration and litigation. He is a graduate of the Boston University Law School (J.D. summa cum laude) and the University of Oxford (BCL). He is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the District of Columbia. His research is in general public international law and the international law of investment. |
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Mr. Robert J.C. DEANE Mr. Robert Deane is National Leader of the Firm’s International Trade and Arbitration Group, and a member of the National Council, the Firm’s governing body. He also serves as the Vancouver Regional Leader of both the Privacy and Access to Information Group and the Advertising, Marketing and Sponsorship Law Group. Mr. Deane practises international and domestic commercial arbitration, commercial litigation, privacy law, intellectual property litigation and advertising/competition law. He is ranked nationally and internationally as a leading lawyer in these areas. Mr Deane has experience in all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and in numerous significant international commercial arbitration proceedings in North America, Asia and Europe under the LCIA Rules, the ICC Rules, the ICSID (Additional Facility) Rules, the American Arbitration Association’s International Arbitration Rules, the Arbitration Rules of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the Domestic and International Arbitration Rules of the British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre, and the National Arbitration Rules of the ADR Institute of Canada, among others. Prior to joining BLG, Mr Deane was a law clerk to the Honourable Madam Justice Beverley McLachlin, Supreme Court of Canada (now the Rt. Honourable Beverley McLachlin, PC, Chief Justice of Canada). Mr Deane also works closely with the BLG Cybersecurity group. |
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The Hon Sir Bernard EDER Sir Bernard Eder practised as a barrister at 4 Essex Court, London and (when Chambers moved) at Essex Court Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn Fields for almost 35 years – between 1976 and 2010 – specialising in commercial litigation and international arbitration covering a wide range of commercial disputes including shipping, international trade, insurance/reinsurance, banking, construction (including shipbuilding), commodities and energy law. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1991. During his practice at the English Bar, he acted as Counsel in over 100 reported cases (including in the Commercial Court, the Court of Appeal, the House of Lords and the Privy Council) and over 200 international arbitrations. He also acted as Counsel in numerous foreign jurisdictions (including Singapore, Gibraltar and various Courts in the Caribbean) as well as arbitrator under the aegis of the ICC, the LCIA and the LMAA and on an ad hoc basis. He was formerly Visiting Professor at University College, London (1999-2003) where he lectured on shipping law as part of the LLM course. He is currently Senior Editor of the leading shipping textbook, Scrutton on Charterparties and Bills of Lading. He regularly delivers lectures/speeches in the UK and in other parts of the world. In 2011, he was appointed a Justice of the High Court of England and Wales. He retired from the Bench on 1 April 2015. During his time as a High Court Judge, he sat mainly in the Commercial Court in London where he presided over a number of high-profile trials. On 7 May 2015, he was appointed an International Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court. He has also now rejoined Essex Court Chambers as an arbitrator. A full CV appears at www.essexcourt.com. |
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Professor Mark FELDMAN Professor Mark Feldman is Associate Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law. He also serves as a member of the E15 Initiative Task Force on Investment Policy (World Economic Forum/ICTSD), as a member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, and as co-director of the Pearl River Delta Academy of International Trade and Investment Law. He previously served as Chief of NAFTA/CAFTA-DR Arbitration in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. As Chief, he represented the United States as a Respondent or non-disputing Party in more than a dozen investor-State disputes and provided legal counsel supporting the negotiation of U.S. bilateral investment treaties and investment chapters of free trade agreements. Mark’s government experience also includes service as a law clerk to Judge Eric L. Clay on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho during South Africa’s transition to democracy. In the private sector, he practiced law for several years at Covington & Burling. |
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Mr. Alastair HENDERSON Mr. Alastair Henderson is ranked among the leading arbitration lawyers in Asia and is one of the region’s best-known names in this field. He graduated in law from Oxford University and worked for 5 years in London before moving to Asia in 1993. After several years each in Hong Kong and Bangkok, he is now based in Singapore from where he works on cases across the region and beyond. Mr. Henderson is also Herbert Smith Freehills’ managing partner for Singapore and Southeast Asia. Mr. Henderson has more than 20 years’ experience handling major disputes across many sectors and industries, concerning a wide variety of trade, commercial and financial activities, with particular experience of oil, gas and power, construction and engineering, infrastructure and projects, and major foreign investment. He is very familiar with disputes in or concerning the countries of Southeast Asia, as well as international cases outside the region. His clients include governments and public bodies, state-owned and independent companies, international banks, and other multinational and leading regional companies. Mr. Henderson has served numerous times as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and presiding arbitrator and has handled many cases as counsel under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, KLRCA, SIArb, CIETAC, Thai Arbitration Institute and Indonesian National Arbitration Institute (BANI) as well as UNCITRAL rules and pure ad hoc cases. He is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators; a national committee member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; and a former member of ICC Thailand national arbitration commission. |
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Ms. Daphne HONG Daphne Hong is the Deputy Director-General of the International Affairs Division (IAD) of the Attorney-General’s Chambers. She started her legal career as a judicial officer in the Singapore Judiciary, first in the Subordinate Courts (now the State Courts) and then the Supreme Court. She moved to IAD in 2006, where she undertook international law advisory and negotiation work covering the entire range of international law issues. She was attached to Singapore’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York as its legal advisor from September to December 2009. In recent years, her focus is on international trade and investment law and international intellectual property law. She is the lead counsel for the government in the negotiation of the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, which includes an investment chapter. She also led the legal team in Singapore’s intervention as a third party in the Tobacco Plain Packing dispute before the WTO. She oversees the international economic law work in IAD. |
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Ms. Meg KINNEAR Ms. Meg Kinnear is currently the Secretary-General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) at the World Bank. She was formerly the Senior General Counsel and Director General of the Trade Law Bureau of Canada, where she was responsible for the conduct of all international investment and trade litigation involving Canada, and participated in the negotiation of bilateral investment agreements. In November 2002, Ms. Kinnear was also named Chair of the Negotiating Group on Dispute Settlement for the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement. From October 1996 to April 1999, Ms. Kinnear was Executive Assistant to the Deputy Minister of Justice of Canada. Prior to this, Ms. Kinnear was Counsel at the Civil Litigation Section of the Canadian Department of Justice (from June 1984 to October 1996) where she appeared before federal and provincial courts as well as domestic arbitration panels. Ms. Kinnear was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1984 and the Bar of the District of Columbia in 1982. She received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Queen’s University in 1978; a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from McGill University in 1981; and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Virginia in 1982. Ms. Kinnear has published numerous articles on international investment law and procedure and is a frequent speaker on these topics. She is a co-author of Investment Disputes under NAFTA (published in 2006 and updated in 2008 & 2009). She also co-authored texts on Canadian legal procedure including Federal Court Practice (1988-1990, 1991-1992, and 1993-2009 annually) and 1995 Crown Liability and Proceedings Act Annotated (1994). |
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Mr. Edmund KRONENBURG Mr. Edmund Kronenburg began his career at Drew & Napier in 1997, and is today the Managing Partner of Braddell Brothers LLP, Singapore’s third-oldest law practice, founded in 1883 by the sons of Singapore’s first Attorney-General. He appears as counsel in trials and appeals before the Singapore courts, as well as in international commercial arbitrations, predominantly conducted under the SIAC, ICC and UNCITRAL Rules. He also sits as an Arbitrator; his present appointments include tribunals seated in Indonesia and Vietnam. The Legal 500 (Asia-Pacific, 2012 to 2015 ed.) Guide describes him as “aggressive”, “articulate”, “good strategist”, “trusted confidant”, “good advocate” and “best in class”, as well as having a “flair for arbitration”. Chambers & Partners (Asia-Pacific & Global, 2013 to 2015 ed.) report that Edmund “… is a top-notch lawyer who comes up with comprehensive and pragmatic advice”; “… is valued by clients, not only “because we need his knowledge and experience in the law, but more than that, because he is streetwise”; “… a deeply experienced litigator who is well versed in commercial disputes and provides sound advice to his clients”; and “… impresses clients with his strategic approach. One source comments: ‘He has the ability to think beyond the conventional and has brilliant ideas in terms of legal strategy.’” Mr. Kronenburg’s practice areas include Corporate and Commercial Litigation & Arbitration, Medical Negligence, Employment, Cross-Border Family Litigation, Corporate Insolvency and Injunctions. Between 2011 and now, he and his team have been instructed on matters involving Mareva / Freezing Injunctions with a combined value of approx. USD 1 billion. |
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Mr Jonathan LEACH Mr. Jonathan Leach is a Partner at Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee in Singapore and Head of Hogan Lovells’ International Arbitration Practice in Southeast Asia. Mr. Leach is ranked as one of Asia’s leading arbitration practitioners. He and his team advise and represent corporates, banks and States in cross-border disputes within or connected with the Southeast Asia region, with particular experience in the trade, commodities, energy and financial services sectors. Hogan Lovells’ international arbitration practice is also one of the few to have represented both foreign investors and governments in investment treaty arbitrations in the ASEAN region. Mr. Leach was recently described as a “widely respected figure in Asian arbitration” (Chambers Asia Pacific, 2014) and “one of the best-known arbitration specialists in Singapore” (Chambers Asia Pacific). In addition to acting for clients as counsel, he sits as an arbitrator and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has been based in Singapore since 2008, following 8 years in Hogan Lovells’ London dispute resolution practice, and is also qualified as a Solicitor Advocate in the Higher Courts of England and Wales. |
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Prof. Joel LEE Mr. Joel Lee is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, the National University of Singapore. Mr. Lee co-pioneered the teaching of Negotiation and Mediation in the Singapore Universities and has played a significant role in furthering the development of mediation in Singapore, not just in education but in practice. A graduate of Victoria University of Wellington and Harvard Law Schools, Mr. Lee is a senior consultant with CM Partners (USA) and a principal mediator with and the Training Director of the Singapore Mediation Centre. Mr. Lee is an adjudicator with the Financial Industry Disputes Resolution Centre and a member of the ADR Advisory Council of the Subordinate Courts of Singapore. He is also a member of the International Mediation Institute’s Independent Standards Commission and Intercultural Task force and was a key member of the Ministry of Law’s Working Group on International Commercial Mediation. Mr. Lee is presently the founding Chair of the Board of the Singapore International Mediation Institute. Mr. Lee has taught overseas at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Law, Economics and Science of Aix‐Marseille (Aix‐en‐Provence France) and Anglia Law School (UK) and is the co-editor and co- author of the book “An Asian Perspective on Mediation” and the General Editor for the Asian Journal on Mediation. In 2011, Mr. Lee was awarded the Outstanding Educator Award which is the National University of Singapore’s highest teaching award. |
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Mr. Gavin MACLAREN Mr. Gavin MacLaren is head of our Asia-Pacific energy and natural resources practice. He acts for multi-national corporations, governments, international organisations, private equity and financial institutions across the Asia Pacific. He is particularly sought after for his abilities in structuring and negotiating complex cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and project developments. He also provides public international law advice to governments and energy companies in connection with overlapping international boundary claims. He has been recognised as a leading lawyer by numerous legal directories. |
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Mr. David OWEN QC Mr. David Owen is a full-time arbitrator and mediator with over 30 years of experience of commercial arbitration, mediation and litigation. He began in practice as a barrister in 1983. He was appointed as a Queens Counsel in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and was accredited as a mediator in 2002. The Chambers UK Bar Guide has described him as “a figure right at the heart of the commercial dispute resolution world”. He has been regularly recommended in the Chambers and Legal 500 Guides as a leading practitioner in International Arbitration, Mediation, Commercial Litigation, Shipping, Energy, Commodities, Banking/Finance, and Insurance/Reinsurance. He deals with a wide range of disputes as an international arbitrator, and is regularly appointed as a Chairman, panel member and sole arbitrator. He is identified in the 2015 Who’s Who Legal Guide to the UK Bar as a leading figure in the arbitration field. In addition to numerous ad hoc appointments, he has been appointed under the rules of The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), The London Maritime Arbitrators’ Association (LMAA), The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), The Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA), The Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), The Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI), and UNCITRAL. Appointments have included references seated in London, Singapore, Paris, Geneva, Amsterdam and the BVI. |
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Dr. Eun Young PARK Dr. Eun Young Park is partner with Kim & Chang, who serves as the co-chair of the International Arbitration & Cross-Border Litigation Group. He also practices in anti-corruption and regulatory compliance, and international trade and customs. Dr. Park has been recently appointed as Vice President of LCIA Court, and is also serving as Vice-Chair of IBA Arbitration Committee, and Member of the Board and the Court of the SIAC. He is also Board member of Korean Council of International Arbitration, Executive Member of Seoul IDRC, registered arbitrator with SIAC, DIAC, KLRCA,HKIAC and KCAB. He concentrates his practice on international arbitration proceedings as well as court proceedings in multiple jurisdictions, including international arbitrations in various venues under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, KLRCA, UNCITRAL, AAA/ICDR, SCC and the KCAB. He also sits as an arbitrator in international arbitration cases. He also represents his clients in government investigations related to white-collar crimes including foreign bribery statutes, securities and corporate fraud before various government agencies, and regularly advises his clients on trade sanctions and disputes. He has recently published “Appellate Review in Investor State Arbitration, Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: In Search of A Roadmap TDM 1”. He also published “The Analysis of the Iran Sanctions Act of the United States and the Strategy of the Overseas Construction Project”, “The Defense of Necessity in International Investment Dispute” and regularly co-authors the Arbitration and Anti-Corruption sections for Law Business Research. He has also co-authored the book Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods around the Globe. He has earned numerous top rankings as one of the “leading attorneys” in Chambers Asia-Pacific for international arbitration, Expert Guide and The International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration. Dr. Park has served as a judge in the Seoul District Court and teaches at law schools in Korea. He received a doctorate degree (J.S.D.) and an LL.M from the NYU School of Law after graduating from the Seoul National University (M.Jur & B.Jur). He is admitted to the New York bar and Korea bar. |
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Mr. Hugo PEREZCANO DIAZ Mr. Hugo Perezcano is an independent consultant in areas of international arbitration, international trade regulation, international law and corporate and transactional law. He is also very knowledgeable and experienced on trade remedies. He worked for the Mexican Government for nearly 20 years: He headed Mexico’s Trade Remedy Authority from January 2007 through October 2011. He was General Counsel for International Trade Negotiations at the Ministry of Economy from December 1994 to December 2006. In such capacity, he was the principal legal advisor for the Government on international trade negotiations and foreign trade and investment matters arising under the WTO, NAFTA and other free trade and bilateral investment agreements. He was lead counsel for Mexico in State-State dispute settlement proceedings initiated under the WTO and NAFTA, as well as in disputes brought by investors under the NAFTA and bilateral investment agreements. Prior to being appointed General Counsel for Trade Negotiations, Mr. Perezcano was part of the Mexico’s legal team during the NAFTA and Uruguay Round Negotiations and was designated lead counsel for Mexico in trade negotiations with several Latin American countries. He has broad experience as a professor of law and numerous specialized publications. |
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Mr. Nandakumar PONNIYA Mr. Nandakumar (Kumar) Ponniya is a principal in the Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Singapore. Mr. Ponniya is seasoned in international arbitration with a focus on building, infrastructure and construction law. He regularly advises on infrastructure projects such as rail systems, oil and gas facilities, and utilities plants, as well as commercial and residentialdevelopments across the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Ponniya is listed as a leading dispute resolution lawyer in Singapore, with Chambers Asia Pacific 2012 noting that he “has a full and comprehensive knowledge of international arbitration and good analytical skill in dealing with cross-border commercial disputes”. Chambers Global 2013 has described him as “extremely technically proficient and commercially savvy”. He has been listed in the Guide to the World’s Leading Construction Lawyers 2013 and further identified as a “rising star” in the Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration 2013. Benchmark Asia Pacific 2013 has recognized him as a “leading disputes star” and “leading litigation star” in Singapore. Mr. Ponniya is seasoned in international arbitration with a focus on building, infrastructure and construction law. Mr. Ponniya regularly advises on infrastructure projects such as rail systems, oil and gas facilities, and utilities plants, as well as commercial and residential developments. He is experienced in international arbitration and legal proceedings arising out of disputes in Singapore, Indonesia, India, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar. |
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Ms. Lucy REED Ms. Lucy Reed is co-head of Freshfields’ global international arbitration and public international law groups. A specialist in energy and natural resources disputes, she represents public and private clients in investment treaty and commercial arbitrations and sits selectively as arbitrator. Among other appointments, Ms. Reed was a member of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission (a humanitarian law tribunal created by international agreement) and co-directed the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland (the first Holocaust tribunal). Ms. Reedserves on the ICC Court, the SIAC Court and the ICCA Governing Board, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was president of the American Society of International Law (2008- 2010) and chair of the Institute for Transactional Arbitration (2009- 2012). While with the US State Department from 1985 to 1993, Ms. Reedserved as the Legal Counselor at the US Embassy in The Hague, with responsibilities for International Court of Justice cases, and as the US Agent to the Iran-US Claims Tribunal. From 1995 to 1998, she was the first general counsel of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (an international organization), in which capacity she led negotiations with North Korea. Ms. Reed writes and lectures extensively in the field of international arbitration. She is co-author of A Guide to the SIAC Arbitration Rules (OUP 2014), the Guide to ICSID Arbitration (Kluwer 2011) and The Freshfields Guide to Arbitration: Clauses in International Contracts (Kluwer 2011). Ms. Reed is a member of the New York and Washington, DC, bars. She was educated at the University of Chicago Law School and Brown University. |
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Ms. Gitta SATRYANI JUWITA Ms. Gitta Satryani Juwita is a Senior Associate in Herbert Smith Freehills LLP’s International Arbitration Practice. Ms. Satryani Juwita read law at the National University of Singapore and qualified as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2006. She started her career working for an international firm’s international arbitration practice and gained experience in its London, Singapore, and Jakarta offices. Gitta joined Herbert Smith Freehills in 2009 and was seconded to the firm’s London office in 2013. She recently returned to the Singapore office. Ms. Satryani Juwita specialises in international arbitration and public international law and is also a member of the firm’s business and human rights practice group. She advises companies, states, and state-owned enterprises, in relation to international disputes across a wide range of industries with a focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors. Her experience includes acting for:
Ms. Satryani Juwita is fluent in English and Indonesian (native). |
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Mr. Matthew SECOMB Mr. Matthew Secomb is a partner in White & Case’s International Arbitration Group based in Singapore. His practice focuses on international commercial arbitration, with a particular emphasis on disputes in the energy and construction sectors. He spent nearly ten years in White & Case’s Paris office before moving to Singapore in 2015. Before joining White & Case in 2006, he was Counsel at the ICC Court of Arbitration’s Secretariat for four years (2001-2005). Mr Secomb is a member of the Paris bar (avocat), a solicitor in England & Wales and a barrister and solicitor in Victoria, Australia. He was educated at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University. He is also a member of various professional bodies, including the ICC Commission on Arbitration and the SIAC’s Users’ Council. He lectures in International Commercial Arbitration at Queen’s University, and is a regular guest lecturer in Gas Price Disputes at Queen Mary, University of London. He has also guest lectured at various other universities, including Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), Bocconi University and Moscow State University. He has written various book chapters and articles on international arbitration and related topics. He is co-author of the chapter on the ICC Rules of Arbitration in Concise International Arbitration (Kluwer, 2nded, 2015). |
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Mr. Nish SHETTY Mr. Nish Shetty is a Partner and the Head of International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution for South East Asia at Clifford Chance. He is regarded as a leading expert in the field of dispute resolution. Mr. Shetty has advised on some of the most complex cross-jurisdictional disputes in recent years in Asia. Mr. Shetty is on the panel of arbitrators of the key arbitral institutions in the region. He is also the first in Asia to be appointed as a Judge of Appeal on the FIA International Court of Appeal in Paris. He is ranked as a “Leading Individual” in dispute resolution by the major legal directories including Legal 500, IFLR 1000 and Chambers Asia-Pacific and is identified among the leading international arbitration practitioners in the world by International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration. He is noted as being “a litigation expert with ‘a sound understanding and a sharp mind when it comes to legal issues’.” in the 2014 edition of Chambers Asia Pacific. |
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Ms. Marion SMITH QC Ms. Marion Smith QC is a member of the bar of England and Wales, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She has wide experience in commercial and construction dispute resolution involving litigation, arbitration, adjudication and mediation, across a wide range of industry sectors including building, energy, engineering, financial services, insurance and telecommunications. As a trained advocacy teacher she has conducted training workshops in the UK, Europe and the Caribbean and frequently lectures and writes on topics related to substantive and procedural law. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of International Arbitration, part of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London. |
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Mr. Paul TAN Mr. Paul Tan is called to the Singapore and English bars and enjoys a broad-based international arbitration (commercial and investor-State) and commercial litigation practice, in which he is regularly instructed as lead counsel. In addition to his “wide knowledge” in these areas, he is praised for his “powerful intellect” and “extraordinary analytical discipline.” He is included in the 2014 and 2015 editions of Best Lawyers for commercial litigation and international arbitration. He has also been appointed an expert to the Singapore delegation to the UNCITRAL’s Working Group on Arbitration. He is familiar with disputes concerning a range of industries (telecommunications, oil and gas, electricity, mining, shipping, banking and defence technology) arising under both common and civil law systems, international treaties (including the Energy Charter Treaty and the New York Convention), and under major institutional rules (including ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, LMAA, ICC and SIAC). He is also adept in aspects of public international law, having advised on issues of diplomatic immunity, sanctions, privileges and immunities of international organisations, and disputes under the WTO. In addition, he helms an active court practice, which includes arbitration-related court proceedings (antisuit injunctions, interim measures, and challenges to awards). His experience includes a year-long placement with “magic circle set” Essex Court Chambers in London (as a Singapore Academy of Law scholar) where he worked on commercial and public international law cases before the English courts and international tribunals, and a stint as a foreign stagiaire with Lalive in Geneva. He has also served as a law clerk to the Supreme Court of Singapore and sat as an assistant registrar of the Supreme Court, during which he decided many cases and issued four written judgments on a wide range of matters. Mr. Tan also sits or as has sat on high-level committees, including the Government-appointed Committee to Review the Singapore Legal Services Sector, and the Arbitration and Public International Law committees of the Law Society of Singapore. In 2013, he was elected a member of the Council of the Law Society of Singapore, and was appointed co-chair of the Asia-Pacific and Australasian region for the LCIA’s Young International Arbitration Group. In 2014, he was invited to be an honorary member of the Commercial Bar of London. He is also a member of the pro-tem committee of the International Law Association (Singapore). He teaches and speaks internationally in his fields of expertise, and is co-authoring the next edition of Mustill & Boyd’s treatise on commercial arbitration. |
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Ms. Charis TAN Ms. Charis Tan is a Senior Associate at Eversheds LLP and a specialist in State-to-State disputes, investor-State disputes and international commercial arbitration. She is admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of Singapore, an Attorney and Counselor-at-Law of the State of New York, and a Solicitor of England & Wales. Ms. Tan has handled numerous institutional and ad hoc commercial arbitrations, such as under the ICC, LCIA, SCC, SIAC and UNCITRAL Rules, and has particular expertise in oil and gas related disputes flowing from her practice advising national and international oil companies (NOCs and IOCs) on upstream oil and gas issues. She has also acted in several ICSID and UNCITRAL investment treaty arbitrations in claims brought against sovereign States relating to large infrastructure, energy and investment projects. Her work includes advising companies and States on investment treaty protection and structuring. Ms. Tanalso advises States and multinational corporations on a wide range of public international law issues, including in high profile State-to-State disputes before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), such as on treaties, land and maritime boundary delimitation, law of the sea, joint development zones, international organizations and State responsibility. After graduation from the National University of Singapore, she was appointed as an adjunct tutor, where she taught a skills-based programme on advocacy before an international tribunal. |
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Mr. J Christopher THOMAS QC Mr. John Christopher Thomas QC has acted as counsel or legal advisor in GATT, Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, WTO, and NAFTA disputes, having acted both for private industry interested in the outcome of a particular dispute, and directly for governments (both as complainants and as respondents). He has acted as a Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement panelist, a GATT panelist, and argued the first State-to-State dispute to arise under the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. He has appeared in proceedings before NAFTA and WTO Panels and the WTO Appellate Body. He is Senior Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore. Mr. Thomas has appeared as counsel in many investor-State disputes, judicial review applications involving investor-State arbitration awards, and has acted as an arbitrator or is currently acting as an arbitrator in many investment treaty claims. He has also acted as an arbitrator, including as presiding arbitrator, in various other arbitral fora, ranging from LCIA commercial arbitration to dispute settlement proceedings under Canada’s Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT). |
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Mr Alan TREIBITZ Mr. Alan Treibitz, is CEO and co-founder of Z-Axis LLC. Founded in 1983, Z-Axis is the oldest company in the world specializing in sophisticated visual presentations for dispute resolution. Mr. Treibitz has advised on nearly five hundred cases during his career and has been involved in most of Z-Axis’ high-profile cases since the company’s inception. He has also played a key role in developing new courtroom presentation technology and holds a patent in the field of presentation technology for a method for controlling multiple remote display devices. Mr. Treibitz works with counsel to develop visual strategies that communicate compelling and persuasive storylines. He has consulted in trials and arbitrations in a wide variety of fields including construction, bilateral investment treaties, intellectual property, antitrust, contracts, finance, international taxes, fraud, insurance, and aviation. Trials of note include the crash of Delta 191 at Dallas-Ft. Worth, Eolas v. Microsoft, the Oklahoma City bombing trials, the United States v. The Tobacco Industry, the World Trade Center insurance litigation, and the BP Gulf Oil Spill litigation. He has consulted on numerous international arbitrations and mediations in London, Paris, The Hague, Singapore and Hong Kong that have utilized sophisticated presentations to explain complex transactions and events. Arbitrations of note include the Ecuador-Colombia crop spraying dispute, the Malaysia-Singapore tax dispute, and the Yukos-Russia expropriation dispute. Mr. Treibitz frequently lectures on the strategic design and use of visual communications tools. He has spoken to the Conference of Chief Justices, the International Bar Association, the Royal Aeronautical Society, the Cambridge Institute, the Patent Resources Group and numerous legal organizations around the world. |
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Mr. Stephen TROMANS QC Mr. Stephen Tromans QC is currently a barrister at 39 Essex Chambers in London. He was the Joint Head from 2011 – 2015, during which time 39 Essex Chambers opened its current chambers in Singapore (Maxwell Chambers) and in Kuala Lumpur (Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration). Stephen was also a former University Lecturer at Cambridge. His practice focuses on environmental, energy and infrastructure law, dealing with matters such as major projects and related disputes. He is the author of a number of text books including Environmental Impact Assessment: law and practice and Nuclear Law. He is an Advisory Committee Member of the Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law at NUS. His practice includes international dispute resolution. He is a CEDR accredited Mediator and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. |
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Mr. Romesh WEERAMANTRY Mr. RomeshWeeramantry is a Foreign Legal Consultant in the Hong Kong office of Clifford Chance. He specialises in complex arbitrations involving cross-border commercial disputes and investment treaty claims relating to Asia. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His prior professional experience includes work at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (The Hague) and the United Nations Compensation Commission (Geneva) on inter-government disputes arising from Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. He has advised major international organizations on dispute settlement and has trained government officials and judges in developing nations on arbitration and international law issues. His publications include Treaty Interpretation in Investment Arbitration (Oxford UP 2012); and International Commercial Arbitration: An Asia-Pacific Perspective (Cambridge UP 2011). He is an editor of the The Hong Kong Arbitration Ordinance: Commentary and Annotations; the Asian Dispute Review and the Hong Kong White Book Arbitration and ADR Volume. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the ICSID Review. |
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Mr. Francis XAVIER SC Mr. Francis Xavier, SC is Head, Regional Disputes Practices of Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP and was appointed Senior Counsel in January 2009. He practices in the areas of international and treaty arbitration and cross-border commercial litigation. He handles cases involving securities fraud,insider trading and commercial fraud. He also specialises in aviation law and advised in the class-action suit taken out by the estates and dependents of the victims of the crash of the SilkAir flight in Indonesia in 1997. He is presently acting as counsel in several substantial cross-border aviation disputes in advising aircraft manufacturers, turbo-fan engine makers and global aviation suppliers. He has been and continues to be involved in a number of cross-border international arbitrations in the aviation, oil and commodities, construction and power industries. Mr. Xavierhas been recognised as a leading lawyer by Asia Pacific Legal 500 (2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2003/2004, 2004/2005, 2008/2009, 2010/2011, 2012/2013, 2014), AsiaLaw Profiles (2007), Asia Law leading lawyers (2009), Chambers Global (2010/2013), Global Arbitration Review (2010), Chambers Asia (2011/2012/2013) and the Fifth Edition of Best Lawyers in Singapore Practice area of Litigation (2013). He is on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration and the Kigali International Arbitration Centre (Rwanda). He currently appears both as counsel and arbitrator in a number of international arbitrations as well as several treaty arbitrations. |
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Mr. Alvin YEO SC Mr Alvin Yeo, Senior Counsel, is the Chairman & Senior Partner of WongPartnership LLP. His main practice comprises corporate, commercial and infrastructure disputes, both in litigation and arbitration. Mr. Yeo has also acted as arbitrator in various disputes under ICC and SIAC Rules, involving projects in South-East and South Asia. Mr. Yeograduated from King’s College London, University of London, and was admitted to the English Bar (Gray’s Inn) in 1987 and the Singapore Bar in 1988. In January 2000, Mr. Yeobecame the youngest lawyer to be appointed Senior Counsel. He is a member of the Court of the SIAC, the ICC Commission on Arbitration, the Court of the LCIA, a Fellow of the SIArb and on the panel of arbitrators of the ICDR, HKIAC, KCAB, KLRCA and SCIA. Mr. Yeohas served on various public committees which undertook comprehensive reviews of the legal services sector. He is a member of the Panel of Disciplinary Tribunal Chairmen of The Singapore Medical Council and the Appeals Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Mr. Yeoalso serves on the boards of various public companies in Singapore, and is an elected Member of Parliament. Mr. Yeois also recognised as a leading litigation and arbitration counsel in international legal directories such as The Legal 500: Asia Pacific; IFLR1000; Chambers Global; Chambers Asia Pacific; Expert Guides; Who’s Who Legal; Best Lawyers; Asialaw Leading Lawyers, Asialaw Profiles and Benchmark Asia Pacific. |
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Ms. Shobna CHANDRAN Ms. Shobna Chandran is a senior associate in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in Clifford Chance Singapore, with more than 9 years of experience in international arbitration and litigation. She started off her career as a Justices Law Clerk in the Supreme Court of Singapore and then went on to a pre-eminent local law firm’s disputes team before joining Clifford Chance in 2013. Ms. Chandran represents financial institutions and multinational companies in high value international arbitrations. She has a strong focus on arbitration mandates in relation to South and South-East Asia (and, in particular, on India, Indonesia and Thailand). In the last two years, Ms. Chandran has acted for a number of multi-national companies in joint venture arbitration disputes regarding their subsidiaries in these jurisdictions, under LCIA rules, SIAC rules, LCIA-India Rules and in ad hoc arbitration. She also has considerable experience in appearing before disciplinary/regulatory panels and has done advisory work involving aspects of international law, anti-corruption law, insider trading and defamation law. Ms. Chandran often contributes to arbitration related publications and is an active member of the young arbitration practitioners’ networks in Singapore. She is also very heavily involved in pro bono and community work, working internally with the Clifford Chance community committee and externally with the Singapore law society and other key stakeholders. She has a keen focus on education and conducts advocacy coaching with the National University of Singapore and teaches commercial arbitration to students undergoing the Singapore Institution of Legal Education’s postgraduate practical law course (Part B course). |
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Ms. Emily CHOO Ms. Emily Choo is a Practice Fellow at the Centre for International Law. She assists Mr. J. Christopher Thomas, Q.C. as an arbitral clerk on international investment arbitrations and as a research assistant. Prior to joining the Centre, Ms. Choo trained at one of the largest international law firms after being selected for its international clerkship. Subsequently, she was with a senior counsel’s team and assisted on a number of high-profile litigation matters, some of which resulted in Singapore landmark decisions. She also assisted on various complex high-value SIAC, ICC and LCIA arbitration matters. Ms. Choo completed her LL.B with a 2nd (Upper) Honours at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she was awarded the Dean’s List (2006/2007) and the C J Koh Scholarship. During her time at NUS, Emily was the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Singapore Law Review. She was also selected to represent Singapore and NUS in the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot held in Hong Kong. Ms. Choo has also co-coached the Singapore joint NUS-SMU team which won the best oralist awards at the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot; she has since been invited to be a judge at the same moot. |
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Mr. Junianto James LOSARI Junianto James Losari is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law. He has a Masters (LL.M) from the IELPO Programme of Universidad de Barcelona and a Bachelor of Law degree (magna cum laude) from Universitas Pelita Harapan, Indonesia. Prior to joining the Centre, he served for the Office of the Special Staff of International Relations of the President of Indonesia. At the Office, he was involved in the drafting of the President’s speeches and in providing legal analysis for the Special Staff on issues related to public international law, including international trade law and international investment law. Previously, James also worked for one of the largest law firms in Indonesia.He has been a consultant to the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and has advised government officials in the region on international investment law. In the last two years, he has also been assisting Prof. Michael Ewing-Chow with teaching courses on international investment law. |
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Ms. Felicia TAN Ms. Felicia Tan’s areas of practice encompass corporate, construction, defamation, public law, infrastructure, shareholder-related and property-related arbitration and litigation. She also advises on non-contentious matters in the same areas. Her key clients include statutory boards, academic institutions, banks and major companies. Ms. Tan has been involved in several major international arbitrations. Some of her significant cases include acting for a major power generation company in an arbitration arising from a gas supply agreement with a foreign company, acting for a public transport authority in an arbitration arising from a design and build construction contract, and acting for a large Chinese commodities company in an arbitration with another foreign company arising from a sale and purchase agreement. Ms. Tan has also represented various statutory boards, academic institutions and shareholders in various disputes at the Courts in Singapore, including at the level of the Court of Appeal. She has recently acted as the lead counsel in a trial arising from a defamation dispute brought against an academic institution by its previous employee, and successfully defended the institution. Ms. Tan graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with an LLB (Hons) degree in 2005. She represented the National University of Singapore at the 2006 Oxford Intellectual Property Moot and was one of the two-member inaugural champion team. |
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Mr. Sudharsanan THILLAINATHAN Mr. Sudharsanan Thillainathan joined Shook Lin & Bok in 1997 as an associate. He became a partner in 2004. His main practice areas are Civil and Corporate Litigation and International & Domestic Commercial Arbitration. Mr. Thillainathan is the Deputy President, Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators. Mr. Thillainathan is listed as a leading lawyer in Dispute Resolution in Asialaw Profiles 2015. He was listed as a recommended lawyer in Dispute Resolution in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific and is described there as “a rising young star”. Mr. Thillainathan is also recognised as an expert in Commercial Arbitration by Expert Guides. Mr. Thillainathan participated in the inaugural Singapore International Arbitration Academy (SIAA) in 2012, presented by the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore where he was a recipient of the Award for Excellence in Advocacy. |
