Christina Beharry is Counsel in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation and Arbitration Department in Washington, D.C. Her practice focuses on public international law, international investment and commercial arbitration, and trade and investment policy. She has represented clients in Asia, Central and South America, Europe, and North America in disputes involving various industries including mining, oil and gas, real estate, renewable energy, chemical manufacturing, postal services, agriculture, forestry, healthcare, telecommunications, and tobacco. Prior to joining Foley Hoag, she practiced in the Trade Law Bureau (JLT) of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa. In this capacity, Ms. Beharry represented the Government of Canada in investor-State disputes brought under NAFTA Chapter 11 and assisted in the negotiation of bilateral investment treaties with countries in Latin America and the Middle East. Ms. Beharry regularly speaks at conferences and publishes widely on international arbitration including her recent book Contemporary and Emerging Issues on the Law of Damages and Valuation in International Investment Arbitration (Brill Nijhoff, 2018). She holds law degrees from the London School of Economics, Cambridge University, and Columbia University.

Katharine is a litigation lawyer who handles international disputes and is based in Holland & Knight’s Miami office. Clients rely on her experience to represent them in international arbitration proceedings in English and Spanish, and in international litigations before U.S. federal and state courts in New York and Florida.

Katharine has handled international arbitrations applying the laws of New York, Florida, Spain, France, U.K., Namibia, Saudi Arabia, Colombia and Guatemala, among other jurisdictions, as well as investor-state arbitrations.

Katharine has acted as Administrative Secretary of Arbitral Tribunals, and is a representative for North America of the ICC’s Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) for its 2019-2021 mandate. A Spanish national, she holds a B.S. from ICADE Business School and an LL.B. from ICADE Law School in Madrid (E-3), and a J.D. from Columbia University Law School in New York.

Hagit Muriel Elul is Co-Chair of Hughes Hubbard’s International Arbitration practice group and is a New York-based partner.  She practices in the area of high-stakes business disputes involving energy, pharmaceutical, intellectual property, construction and professional services. Her clients are based globally in Europe, Asia and Latin America among other places.

Her experience handling billion-dollar-plus commercial disputes has earned her recognition in multiple publications as a leading practitioner of international arbitration and dispute resolution including Legal 500, Who’s Who International Arbitration World’s Leading Women in Business Law, Latin Lawyer 250, Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration, and Global Arbitration Review.

Hagit sits as an arbitrator regularly and frequently writes and lectures on topics related to international arbitration and litigation.  She is chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) and an Executive Board Member of the New York International Arbitration Center.

After graduating cum laude from Columbia Law School, Hagit clerked for the United States District Court.

A long and varied career has provided Clifford J. Hendel with a broad base of experience – including both transactional and contentious work, in both common law and civil law jurisdictions, in both large and small firms, and in both private practice and adjudicative capacities – uniquely suited to maximize prospects for the effective management and resolution of international disputes.

In terms of substantive focus, his career to date can be divided into three separate segments. First, for two years following law school, he was a judicial law clerk in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (USA), where he experienced the full range of U.S. federal litigation (including civil and criminal cases, and jury and non-jury cases). Second, for the following decade he was a deal lawyer in the New York and Paris offices of a leading global firm, where his practice focused on international financial matters, international project and asset (particularly, aviation) finance and international M&A. And third, for the past two decades before founding HENDEL IDR he was partner of a leading Madrid boutique, initially with a broad-based commercial, corporate and general business-law practice before evolving towards a predominantly contentious practice, particularly involving international arbitration, both as counsel and arbitrator.

Jurisdictionally, Mr. Hendel’s career is similarly split into three segments: nearly a decade in the US, four years in Paris, and two decades in Madrid. During his long years in Europe he has accumulated ample experience in the practice, procedure and mindset of the civil law to complement his training and initial experience as a common lawyer. In addition to being a practicing New York attorney and Madrid abogado, he is an English solicitor (non-practicing) and a Paris avocat à la cour (non-practicing).

Particularly active in sports arbitration, Mr. Hendel is one of the eight arbitrators of the FIBA Basketball Arbitral Tribunal.  He sits as arbitrator in a broad variety of commercial cases, often involving post-acquisition, construction or energy-related disputes.

Recognized as “Most in Demand Arbitrator” in all Chambers & Partners Global Guides since 2009, he has been regularly recognized as a recommended individual in Arbitration, Corporate/M&A, Banking & Finance and related specialties in publications including Best Lawyers, The Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal and Leaders League.

Mr. Hendel is a member of a number of task forces of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the Executive Council of the European Advisory Board of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), a member of the Governing Board of the Club Español de Arbitraje and a founding moderator of ITAFOR, the ITA Latin American Arbitration Forum online discussion group.

He speaks and writes frequently on legal issues, particularly involving international dispute resolution, mediation and ADR, sports law and international legal practice.  He is fluent in Spanish and French, as well as his native English. More information is available at www.hendel-idr.com.

With over twenty years of experience, Ms. Miles has conducted arbitrations under all the major institutions, as well as conducting ad hoc arbitrations and undertaking significant public international law cases. She has advised a wide range of multinationals, sovereign states and state entities. Chambers UK (2017) names her in the top band of arbitrators, caller her “a force in international
arbitration.”

Ms. Miles is a Vice President of the ICC Court of Arbitration, and remains a representative on various professional bodies, including the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, where she co-chaired the Task Force on Costs Allocation in Arbitration. She is also Vice Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee and co-chair of the gender diversity initiative Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge.

Apoorva Patel is a senior associate in the international arbitration group at WilmerHale.  His practice focuses on the resolution of complex international disputes through commercial and investor-state arbitration and cross-border litigation.  Mr. Patel has represented and advised clients in the construction and engineering, defense, energy, financial services, insurance, technology, and telecommunications industries, among others.  He also has extensive experience in litigation before U.S. federal and state courts and in the negotiation and mediation of commercial disputes.  In addition to his work as counsel, Mr. Patel serves on the Editorial Board of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of International Law’s International Dispute Resolution News, is a Vice Chair of the ABA’s International Arbitration Committee, and is a member of the national leadership committee of the ABA Young Lawyers Division’s diversity initiatives.

Charles (Chip) B. Rosenberg is Counsel in the Washington, DC office of King & Spalding LLP where he specializes in international arbitration.   He repeatedly has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by Who’s Who Legal:  Arbitration (2017-2019) and DC Super Lawyers (2016-2019).

Chip is Co-Editor-in-Chief of ITA in Review, the law journal of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA).  He has created and taught international arbitration seminars at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and at the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC.

Prior to joining King & Spalding, Chip spent two years clerking for The Honorable Charles N. Brower, who was ranked the “world’s busiest arbitrator” by The American Lawyer, in London, England and at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague, The Netherlands.  As a law clerk, he served as Tribunal Secretary in multiple international arbitrations.

Chip graduated first in his class, summa cum laude, and Order of the Coif from the American University Washington College of Law.

Lawrence S. Schaner serves as an arbitrator in international and complex commercial cases. He has been appointed presiding arbitrator, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator, or emergency arbitrator, in numerous arbitrations in both administered and non-administered cases. He has been recognized in Band 1 by Chambers USA in the category of International Arbitrators where he is described as “a very experienced commercial arbitration expert who is a sophisticated and fair person to deal with.” Mr. Schaner is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where he has taught international arbitration since 2010.

He is the Co-Editor of the treatise “International Arbitration in the United States” (Kluwer 2018), and the immediate past Editor (2012-2018) of the International Bar Association’s journal “Dispute Resolution International.” In his more than 30 years of practice, Mr. Schaner has amassed broad experience with complex, high stakes business disputes spanning many sectors and industries. Until April 2017, he was a partner at Jenner & Block, in Chicago. He co-founded and co-chaired the firm’s international arbitration practice, appearing as counsel in a wide range of significant international disputes. He also acquired very substantial experience representing clients in courts throughout the US as a member of the firm’s renowned litigation department.

Mr. Schaner is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration, and Member of the Nominations Committee of the USCIB (US national committee of the ICC). He serves on the panels of arbitrators of many of the world’s leading arbitral institutions. He was selected as an “ADR Champion” by the National Law Journal in 2016 and “Chicago International Arbitration – Commercial Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America in 2014. He was awarded the President’s Prize by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 2003 for receiving the highest mark on its Award Writing Examination.

Mr. Schaner earned his JD from Stanford Law School in 1986 and AB from Duke University in 1982. He is a member of the Bars of the States of California, Illinois and New York.

Prior to co-founding BeecheyArbitration, João was legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, where he provided legal and administrative support to arbitral tribunals and parties in proceedings administered by the PCA concerning English, Spanish and Portuguese language BIT, and contract-based investment arbitrations. He also provided legal assistance in appointing authority matters, promoted the PCA in Lusophone jurisdictions, and represented the PCA at conferences and meetings. Between 2007 and 2013, he worked at Uría Menéndez (subsequently, Uría Menéndez-Proença de Carvalho), principally focusing on dispute resolution matters, involving both public and private parties, in which the firm was engaged as counsel. Since 2016, João is also Registrar of the British Virgin Islands International Centre (BVI IAC).

Mark Baker practices in the areas of complex commercial arbitration, business litigation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR). He has extensive experience with the international and domestic arbitration and litigation of banking, financial and securities transactions. He has conducted arbitrations for and before the AAA, ICDR, LCIA, ICC, ICSID, CPR, WIPO, CAS, CAM, CAFTA, and mediated for the US courts and CEDR. He has chaired, on average, eight international arbitration cases each year since 1998. He also continues to act as a leading advocate in high-stakes arbitrations, and he is currently lead Counsel in several ICC, AAA, UNCITRAL, and ICSID arbitrations. He frequently represents numerous clients in matters regarding international and domestic construction contracts, power purchase and sale agreements, energy contracts, joint ventures, and project finance and development agreements.

Mark was named 2018 and 2016 National Law Journal ADR Champions Trailblazer. Mark is included in the 2016-2019 Latin Am. Corporate Counsel Association. He was designated as the 2017 Benchmark Litigation Star in TX, received the 2015-2019 Client Choice Award, Texas, arbitration & ADR by Globe Business Publishing, and was selected as 2014 Lawyer of the Year – Houston International Arbitration: Commercial by The Best Lawyers in America. He is consistently recognized as one of the “Top 20 International Arbitration Experts” by PLC, and one of the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America” by National Law Journal. In 2010, the National Law Journal distinguished him among “the Decade’s 40 Most Influential Lawyers.” He is internationally ranked for his arbitration work by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Chambers Latin America, Chambers USA Nationwide, Global Counsel, LawDragon, Legal 500, Legal 500 Latin America, The International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration – Business Lawyers – Oil & Gas Lawyers, and The Best Lawyers in Am. Mark is a member of the LCIA
Company, a former LCIA Court Member, Vice Chairman of the LCIA North American Council, an Executive Committee Member and Director of the American Arbitration Association, Director of the New York International Arbitration Center, and Vice Chair of the IBA Dispute Resolution Section. He is a member of the ICC Commission, as well as a member of the ICDR, CPR, WIPO, CAS, CAM, CEDR, Users Council of Singapore International Arbitration Centre, and Commercial Bar Association. Mark is a frequent speaker and author on international law and international arbitration topics. Mark received his JD from Duke University Law School with highest honors and his BA summa cum laude from Yale University. More information can be found a www.nortonrosefulbright.com.

Prof. Dr. Diane Desierto (JSD, Yale) is tenured Associate Professor of Human Rights Law and Global Affairs at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, USA), where she is also a Faculty Fellow at Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, and the Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development.  She is honorary Professor of International Law at the Philippine Judicial Academy of the Supreme Court of the Philippines; External Faculty Fellow at Stanford University’s Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice; and External Executive Director of the University of the Philippines College of Law’s LLM Graduate Program at the Bonifacio Global City campus.  Professor Desierto is active as international counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the International Criminal Court, the Human Rights Committee, and Philippine appellate courts; listed arbitrator of the British Virgin Islands Arbitration Centre (BVIAC); Drafting Team Member of the Hague Business and Human Rights Arbitration Rules; Academic Forum Member for the UNCITRAL Working Group on ISDS Reform; Co-Chair of the Oxford Investment Claims Summer Academy, and Academic Council Member of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration. She serves as Resource Expert for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the European Union External Action Service, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and serves as Expert for the United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group tasked to draft the new treaty on the right to development.  She is a Scientific Advisory Board Member of the European Journal of International Law and Editor for EJIL:Talk!, member of the editorial boards of the Indonesian Journal of International and Comparative Law and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines Law Journal.

For over 18 years Yasmine Lahlou has represented clients in international arbitration and courts in virtually every continent.  Her ability to master complex facts and transaction documents provides the foundation for effective strategic advice and great results.  Having practiced in France before qualifying in New York in 2003, Yasmine understands the practical and cultural differences presented in cross-border disputes.  Initially trained in Paris and qualified to practice both in France and New York, Yasmine works easily across civil and common law traditions. She has particular experience in construction, pharmaceutical, aerospace, telecommunications and energy disputes involving both private and sovereign parties. Yasmine has acted as counsel and arbitrator under the most widely used arbitration rules, including the ICC, ICDR, LCIA, UNCITRAL and SCC Rules. In addition, she represents clients in courts actions related to arbitration award enforcement proceedings, helps clients seek discovery under U.S. Code Section 1782 and serves as an arbitrator.

Drew specializes in dispute resolution and is admitted to practice in Russia, the UK (England and the Territory of the Virgin Islands) and the United States (California). The focus of his practice is:

International Commercial Arbitration and Litigation – Drew is regularly instructed to act as counsel or arbitrator in commercial disputes, and in particular those involving application of the laws of Russia and other associate or member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (‘CIS States’) or which otherwise have a close connection to those countries. He has experience in arbitrations conducted under ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL and ICAC (Russia) rules.

Russian and CIS law expert – Drew has over 19 years of specialist experience acting or advising in matters applying the laws of Russia and other CIS States. He regularly acts as an expert advisor or witness in legal proceedings on matters of Russia law and the laws of other CIS States, including most recently in respect of the laws of Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Ukraine. Drew is fully fluent in both English and Russian and is equally comfortable working in either language.

Managing member in the Atlanta, Georgia office of Miller & Martin, LLP, Shelby Grubbs works as an advocate and neutral. He serves as lead counsel in arbitrations and litigations and as arbitrator, mediator and special master. He is a panelist for the American Arbitration Association, CPR Institute, International Centre for Dispute Resolution, International Chamber of Commerce and World Intellectual Property Organization. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he is also a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. From 2014 – 2017, he was Executive Director at the Atlanta Center for International Arbitration and Mediation. He has taught international commercial arbitration as an adjunct professor at the United States law schools at Vanderbilt and Emory Universities. He is former chair of the Atlanta Sister Cities Commission.

Bertha’s practice focuses primarily on investor-state arbitration and cross-border mediation. She has been recognised as pioneering efforts for arbitration legislative reform in the Bahamas and alternative dispute resolution capacity building in the Caribbean. Bertha has advised clients for over two decades on complex corporate, finance, insurance, maritime and trust matters, and was counsel for a leading international bank for twelve years. Most notably, she has been appointed as an arbitrator for several ICSID annulment proceedings. Bertha is Managing Partner at Rousseau & Cooper – Cabinet Caraibes in Nassau and a Door Tenant at 3 Hare Court in London. Bertha is also Master of the Bencher of the Honourable Society of Middle Temple and the Founding Chair of The Bahamas Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Karen Gough is a barrister in practice at 39 Essex Chambers, London.  She is also an Attorney-at-Law with full rights of audience in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.  She is a past president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Chartered Arbitrator, and a member of a number of arbitral institution panels, and an accredited adjudicator.  She is an acknowledged expert on the resolution of disputes arising under the FIDIC forms of contract.  She is an expert “Friendly Reviewer” of the FIDIC 2017 Forms and a member of the AIAC Expert Advisory Committee contributing to the drafting of the new KLRCA/AIAC Standard Form Contracts in Malaysia.

Karen specialises in complex major construction, engineering, infrastructure and energy disputes, and general commercial litigation, with a strong emphasis on international commercial arbitration and ADR.  She practises globally as counsel, attorney-at-law, arbitrator, adjudicator and ADR neutral and in the UK has appeared before the courts at all levels, including the Privy Council.

From 2015-2017 she served as the first lay chairman of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Insolvency Licensing Committee.  She is a Council member of the Society for Construction Law in London and a Vice Chairman of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association’s International Construction Projects Committee.

She is described as “Just the person you want if the battle is going to be hot” in construction claims, and having “immense arbitral experience” by Chambers UK, and by Legal 500 as “outstanding in her detailed and analytical grasp of her field and fearless in her protection of the client” and “The sort of advocate that most clients dream of instructing.”

Arabella di Iorio has worked offshore for over 20 years.  She is a partner at Agon Litigation, a specialist BVI litigation practice based in Road Town, Tortola.  Arabella is a past President of the BVI Bar Association. She focuses on complex international commercial litigation and arbitration. She is a solicitor advocate who regularly appears before the BVI Commercial Court, the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute, sits on the panel of arbitrators of the BVI International Arbitration Centre and is the past Chair of the BVI Chapter of the Chartered Institute. She has taken arbitral appointments and is also an accredited mediator.  Arabella began her career at the English Bar, before working for Linklaters in London, and Appleby in Bermuda. She headed the litigation and trusts practices at Maples and Calder in the BVI for 11 years before founding Agon Litigation with Michael Fay QC.  Arabella is recommended in Chambers and Partners and Who’s Who Legal. She is also listed as a leading lawyer in The Citywealth Offshore Leaders List, as well as the IFC Power Women Top 200.

Rose Rameau is a Haitian national who has studied and practiced law in France, USA and Africa.  Ms. Rameau was a Fulbright Scholar at the University Of Ghana School Of Law from 2014-21016 where she taught Investment and International Commercial Arbitration, General Principles of Arbitration as well as Contemporary Issues in Arbitration, and other disputes resolution such as mediation and conciliation.  Prior to becoming a Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, she managed her own practice in Paris, France and Tampa, Florida (USA) and worked on special consulting projects for notable international law firms on FCPA due diligence, antitrust, and commercial litigation.   In addition, she was an Adjunct Professor at the Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II) and Université Paris Est Créteil (Paris12) where she taught fundamentals of the English, and American legal systems as well as international business law.

Ms. Rameau focuses her practice in International Business Law, Commercial Litigation, International Commercial Arbitration and Investment Arbitration. Ms. Rameau is trained in both civil and common law.  Rose Rameau was Vice-Chair of the Africa Committee and the International Energy and Natural Resources Committee of the ABA International Law Section for four years.  She represents Host States and investors in investment disputes and has been appointed sole arbitrator in commercial disputes involving Africans.  She is a Member of the Charted Institute of Arbitrators in the UK as well as the International Arbitration Institute, Paris, France.  She is listed as arbitrator at the Cairo Regional Center For International Commercial Arbitration, the Kigali International Arbitration Center, the Chambre de Conciliation et D’Arbitrage d’Haiti, and the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration of OHADA, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

Akima Paul Lambert is a litigation international counsel and a member of the firm’s commercial Litigation and International Dispute Resolution Group. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and arbitration.

Mrs. Paul Lambert joined Debevoise in 2015.

She received an MA (Hons) from the University of Cambridge (Clare College) and a Maitrise en droit compare from the University of Paris II (Paris- Assas). She is fluent in French and conversant in Spanish.

Mrs. Paul Lambert is part of a team advising a leading plc in proceedings arising from the $1 billion clean-up of the Fox River in the United States and the associated recovery of over $800 million in dividends.

Mrs. Paul Lambert is admitted as a Solicitor Advocate in England and Wales and is also admitted to practice in New York. She was nominated as a Rising Star in the Thomson Reuters 2014 UK edition of Super Lawyers.

Mrs. Paul Lambert completed a fellowship at the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in 2008 and was one of the youngest awardees of United Nations Global 500 Award for services to the environment. She is significantly involved in pro bono and has worked on and co-ordinated a range of pro bono matters in relation to international economic development and human rights. She also co- leads a team at Debevoise advising on Brexit preparation.

Prof. Anton V. Asoskov, L.L.D., is a Professor in the Department of Civil Law at the Law Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Professor in the Department of Private International Law of the Alexeev Research Centre of Private Law.

He is a Member of the Presidium and Head of the Corporate Disputes Nominating Committee of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation (MKAS), as well as a member of the Arbitration Council of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS). He also acted as an arbitrator in various arbitration proceedings under the Arbitration Rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), as well as under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.

Professor Asoskov has the status of a member of the Council for the Improvement of Arbitration at the Russian Ministry of Justice, and of a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb). He is a member of the Working Group at the Council for Codification of the Civil Legislation responsible for preparing the amendments to the Russian Civil Code (section «International Private Law»); he frequently acts as an expert on Russian law in foreign courts and arbitrations.

Fields of scientific interests: private international law, including issues of international civil procedure and international commercial arbitration; corporate law; contract law.

Dr Malcolm is admitted to practice in Jamaica, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, St. Lucia and Belize, with his primary areas of practice being banking and finance, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), construction and real estate, corporate and commercial, trade and investment, regional integration and economic development, cannabis and the financial markets. He is an alumnus of Munro College; The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill; Norman Manley Law School; Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University London; and UNCTAD Virtual Institute, in collaboration with the Universities of Barcelona and Chile. He has worked collaboratively with lawyers and other professionals from across the globe, including in the area of capacity building.

Dr Malcolm is a former Attorney General, British Virgin Islands; Director, Mona Law Institutes Unit; Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law at Mona, University of the West Indies; Partner, Malcolm Gordon, Attorneys-at-Law; Consultant, Fulford Chambers (Turks and Caicos Islands); former Head, Legal Unit, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; former Chair, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Caribbean Branch; Fellow, Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution; Secretary General, Jamaica International Arbitration Centre Limited; Member, Technical Advisory Group, Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean (IMPACT) Project; Panellist, Asian International Arbitration Centre; Panellist, Dispute Resolution Centre of Trinidad and Tobago (DRC); Member, Sports Law Association of Malaysia; Member, Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA); and Executive Director, Street Law Caribbean Limited.

He has represented both public and private sector persons and entities from across the Caribbean region. Insofar as construction law is concerned, the experience of Dr Malcolm has included negotiation, advisory, documentation, contract review and audit, arbitration and dispute management; and capacity-building work. The scope of work here has involved commercial and residential, sea and airport, marine and other infrastructure projects.

In addition to the provision of legal and consulting services, Dr Malcolm is available to accept appointments as arbitrator or mediator or as party representative in matters requiring dispute resolution. The scope of possible arbitration, mediation and other services provided by Dr Malcolm is broad; however, he has special interest in matters involving banking and finance, trade and investment, corporate and commercial, construction and real estate; and contract documentation, review and administration.

Peter Ferrer is a partner in the BVI Dispute Resolution Group and vice chair of the BVI branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

He has instructed on a wide range of international arbitration matters. His clients include institutions, companies, corporate entities and high net worth individuals. He has extensive arbitration experience, having previously practiced at leading arbitration chambers in London. He is an experienced trial advocate, both in court and in international arbitration – including the LMAA, ICC and LCIA. He regularly acts as an expert and is fluent in German, Italian and Polish. His recent experience includes Gerald Metals v Timis enforcement proceedings in support of LCIA arbitration and London conspiracy proceedings, an urgent ICC emergency measures application in a US$100 million shareholder dispute and a US$200 million fraud claim. He has regularly appeared in arbitration-related court supervisory applications in England and the BVI.

Laura T.W. Olive, Ph.D. is an Associate Director in NERA’s Global Energy, Environment, Communications, and Infrastructure Practice, based in Boston. She has nearly 10 years of experience in analyzing the economics of network industries, long-lived infrastructure projects, and energy systems. Dr. Olive currently focuses primarily on electricity, gas, liquefied natural gas, oil, and petroleum products industries. She also has extensive experience working with firms in the transportation industry, including railroads, toll roads, and trucking. She has supported clients in several arbitration venues and in private negotiations related to these topics. Dr. Olive holds a PhD in economics from Northeastern University, specializing in Industrial Organization, where research focused on analyzing competition and market structure issues in the telecommunications and freight rail industries. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, at Simmons College, majoring in economics and minoring in public policy.

Nick is a BVI disputes partner with Ogier which he joined in 2016 after 30 years in London, where his work was a mixture of litigation, arbitration, internal investigations and anti-corruption advice. He chairs the BVI Arbitration Group set up in conjunction with the BVI IAC to promote BVI arbitration.

Nick regularly appears in the BVI Commercial Court where his international disputes work comprises fraud claims, shareholder disputes, jurisdictional challenges, enforcement of foreign judgments and awards, and injunctions in support of foreign or domestic proceedings including applications under s43 BVI Arbitration Act in support of foreign arbitral proceedings.

Christof Siefarth is a partner in the law firm GÖRG Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten that has offices in Cologne, Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg. GÖRG is a full service business law firm with more than 300 attorneys. The firm’s services include corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, insolvency law, restructuring, employment, IP/IT, media and unfair competition law, distribution and general commercial law as well as banking law, including dispute resolution in all areas of law.

He graduated from the University of Cologne, School of Law in 1984 (first exam) and 1989 (second state exam) and obtained a doctors degree (summa cum laude, with high honors) in 1990. In addition, Christof spent a year studying international and comparative law at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1980/81 and obtained a Master of Laws degree from the university of Georgia, School of Law in 1985/1986. In 1991, Christof worked as an associate with Kilpatrick Townsend in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was admitted to the bar in Cologne, Germany, in 1989 and the New York State bar in 1992.

A partner in GÖRG since 1996, Christof mainly advises foreign (predominantly US based) clients regarding all of their business activities in Germany. He has represented many international companies in a variety of commercial transactions, particularly in relation to international license and distribution agreements and related litigation and arbitration.

Christof has substantial experience in coordinating international dispute resolution matters and all kinds of business transactions involving various jurisdictions. He has represented the defendant in the first oral hearing conducted in English before the Cologne High Court.

Christof is a member of the Cologne, German, New York, American and International Bar Associations; he has been the President of the University of Georgia LL.M. Alumni Association from 1997 until 2010. He is a frequent speaker on international business matters, particularly in the US. Christof was the chairman of various international conferences of the Center for International Legal Studies (CILS). He is the only non-US board member of the Atlanta International Arbitration Society (AtlAS – www.arbitrateatlanta.org ) and listed on the IDArb list of arbitrators of the International Distribution Institute as an arbitrator specialized in international distribution law matters, see: www.idiproject.com/content/idarb-list-arbitrators .

Calvin A. Hamilton, a native of Guyana, South America, also holds Spanish nationality. He is admitted to practice in New York and Madrid, Spain. Mr. Hamilton is a member of the ICC Court of International Arbitration. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and serves as the Chair of the Barbados Chapter of the CIArb. He is a former senior lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados and adjunct professor of international commercial arbitration at Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Madrid, Spain.

Mr. Hamilton is the founding partner of hamilton abogados which is consistently considered among the one-hundred top practices by Global Arbitration Review. Mr. Hamilton is also included in the Who’s Who of arbitration practitioners.

Mr. Hamilton’s practice deals primarily with alternative dispute resolution: arbitration, litigation, and mediation. He is specialized in mergers and acquisitions; distribution, agency, franchise and transfer agreements; contract negotiations; corporate law. He has extensive experience in the following sectors: technology, automotive, manufacturing, real estate, construction, energy, including oil and gas and renewable energy.

Mr. Hamilton actively promotes arbitration reform in the Commonwealth Caribbean jurisdictions. He heads a task force charged with drafting arbitration legislation based on the Model Law for consideration by Commonwealth Caribbean law makers. The Model Law has been adopted in Jamaica in 2017.

He acts as counsel or arbitrator in arbitrations throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, the US, Africa and Europe and is included in the lists of arbitrators of the major global arbitration institutions. He has published in many of the arbitration journals and is a prolific speaker. Mr. Hamilton is fluent in Spanish and proficient in French and Portuguese.

Murray Smith received his Bachelor of Science in 1973 and Bachelor of Laws in 1976 from the University of Windsor and his Master of Laws in International Business Law from the London School of Economics in 1989. He was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1977 and qualified as an English Barrister in 1990.

Mr. Smith has extensive experience as a commercial arbitrator under AAA, ICDR, ICC, BCICAC and UNCITRAL Rules. His work has focused on energy and natural resource disputes, construction disputes, technology disputes and the interpretation of commercial contracts generally.

He has lengthy experience in international commercial arbitration training and legal writing in England, Canada, the United States and the Caribbean. He collaborated with Martin Hunter and Allan Redfern in writing the leading text “Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration”, 2 nd ed. He is a founding member of the North American Branch of the Chartered
Institute of Arbitrators and the Western Canadian Commercial Arbitrators Society. Mr. Smith is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the BVI International Arbitration Centre.

Ms. Shan Greer is an arbitrator, mediator and lawyer associated with the law firm Floissac, Fleming & Associates in Saint Lucia. For more than nineteen (19) years, as Counsel, Ms. Greer has dealt with a wide range of disputes in banking and finance, construction and infrastructure, energy and intellectual property. She has represented Governments, Government ministries, state owned enterprises, investors in, lenders to, shareholders and joint venture participants in the construction and infrastructure, energy, banking and finance, hotel and property development, oil and gas, telecommunications, and water sectors.

In addition to acting as Counsel, Ms. Shan Greer has also been regularly appointed as an arbitrator in ad hoc international and domestic arbitrations governed by the laws of civil and common law jurisdictions under various arbitration rules. Ms. Greer is
currently named to the roster of commercial arbitrators with the British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre, Dispute Resolution Centre in Trinidad and Tobago, Dispute Resolution Association in St. Lucia and the Jamaica International Arbitration Centre. In addition, Ms. Greer has been nominated by Saint Lucia for inclusion in the CARICOM Secretariat’s List of Arbitrators and Conciliators established pursuant to the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.

Ms. Shan Greer is a Fellow with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and possesses a Masters degree in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution from Kings College London. She is passionate about education and training, particularly in the area of
alternative dispute resolution and is the Regional Pathway Leader with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

JOHN ROONEY, an arbitrator and attorney located in Miami, with more than 25 years practicing international commercial law.  He speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese, and has served as arbitrator (ICSID, ICC, ICDR, LCIA, IACAC) and advocate in arbitral proceedings conducted in both English and Spanish.  He litigates arbitration-related disputes in United States courts, and is licensed to practice in the states of Florida, Texas and Louisiana (civil law).  Mr. Rooney conducts law school seminars and courses on international commercial arbitration and international commercial agreements in both English and Spanish, and is part of the faculty of the international arbitration masters program of the University of Miami School of Law.  He has been contracted by UNCITRAL as a consultant in the area of international arbitration.  The Fulbright Commission has qualified John as a US Specialist.  As such, Mr. Rooney recently completed a three-week program at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia, where he lectured on common law contracts and international arbitration at their law school.  He is a graduate of the law school of the University of Texas at Austin.  Contact information:  rooneyjh@gmail.com, + 1 305 804 4084.

Peter Maynard, Senior Partner of Peter D. Maynard, Counsel & Attorneys, is highly regarded in the fields of international commercial arbitration, litigation and asset tracing and recovery. He has practiced law as a litigator for 39 years and acted as an arbitrator and arbitration counsel for over 3 decades. His bio includes: Member of the Latin American and Caribbean Council of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Fellow and Chair of the Bahamas Branch of the
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), and sole, presiding and party-appointed arbitrator, counsel or adviser in domestic and international commercial arbitrations (ad hoc, LCIA,ICC and UNCITRAL) relating to, inter alia, banking, construction, financial services, hotels, labour, maritime, provident funds, resorts, tourism and trusts.

He was acting Bahamas Supreme Court Justice, well known for implementing efficient case management, dealing with cases without delay, and completely eliminating the pre existing backlog of civil and commercial cases for Freeport and the Northern Region of the Supreme Court for which he was responsible. As a public service, he is currently Head of the Law Department of the University of The Bahamas, and course director of Arbitration. He was formerly a law lecturer at other institutions such as the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill) and the Eugene Dupuch Law School (Nassau). He was the Deputy Chairman of the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission of the Caribbean Court of Justice. He was also an economist at the United Nations, New York, and later a diplomat there before turning to practice in commercial arbitration and civil litigation. He was Legal Adviser, Bahamas Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution Washington D.C., President of the Bahamas Bar Association and of the Organization of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations.

He achieved the honour of chairing one of the two divisions of the International Bar Association (about 80,000 lawyers) in 2011. Among other firsts, he was the first Bahamian in a substantive professional post at the United Nations in 1974 to earn a PhD in law (completed in 1976, awarded 1977) to teach law at the Faculty of Law of the University of the West Indies in 1979, to be a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution Washington DC in 1974, to head the Organization
of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations in 1998, to be a member of the Trust Fund for the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in 2003, to be on the Councils of the World Jurist Association (1999), the Inter American Bar Association (2001) and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (2016), to be on the Latin American and Caribbean Users’ Council of the London Court of International Arbitration since 2013, to be on the Regional Judicial and Legal Service Commission for the Caribbean (CCJ) (2015 to2019) among other firsts.

Nicola is an English-qualified barrister at the London office of Three Crowns, with experience in public international law and international investment and commercial arbitration. She has represented clients in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East in disputes across a range of industry sectors. She recently represented the Republic of Vanuatu in ICJ advisory opinion proceedings concerning the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965.

Nicola is the Legal Secretary to the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Ethics Commission. She also regularly attends the international treaty negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change as a legal advisor to poor and particularly climate vulnerable developing countries.

Nicola holds degrees from Cambridge (BA), Imperial College, London (MSc), University of Law, London (LLB) and University College, London (LLM).

Ioannis Alexopoulos, Partner, Signature Litigation Ioannis is recognised for his extensive experience representing clients in high value and complex matters, whether pursuant to institutional rules or in ad hoc proceedings. His specialisms include commercial and business disputes with an emphasis on joint venture and shareholder disputes, shareholder protection, business break-ups, fraud as well as infrastructure and other project disputes.

A highly regarded practitioner across a range of sectors, Ioannis has particular expertise across the financial services, energy/oil & gas, mining and natural resources, telecoms, and IT. Key geographies for Ioannis’ practice are Greece, the Balkans, Russia and Central Asia with exposure as well in Middle East, Brazil and sub-Saharan Africa. Ioannis has extensive expertise representing clients in arbitrations under the ICC and LCIA rules as well as others including SCC and UNCITRAL, and his cases often involve an
international element, usually with competing multiple jurisdictions and laws. His clients include banks or their clients, insurers, intermediaries, venture capitalists and equity investors and large corporates in England and internationally. Ioannis also advises in
connection with Investor State Disputes.

Ioannis is fluent in English and Greek and has good working knowledge of Brazilian Portuguese.

Jonathan Addo is a partner in our Litigation and Insolvency practice group. He specialises in Shareholder Disputes; Commercial Fraud; Asset Tracing and Directors Duties, advising major corporations and investors on complex commercial litigation. He has particular expertise in complex hedge fund-related litigation.

Prior to joining us in 2012, Jonathan practised as a barrister at the Bar in London and previously worked in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs International between 2004 and 2008.

He is a leading lawyer in the area of directors’ duties; investor protection and shareholder relief having appeared for the successful party in the leading case in the BVI on the use of directors’ powers (IAMC v SFL BVIHC COM 0034/2016).

He has successfully acted for numerous shareholders in the context of joint venture disputes and unfair prejudice petitions.

Jonathan is recognized by his peers and the directories as a leading commercial fraud and asset recovery lawyer and is often instructed to act for UHNWIs and large MNCs in the investigation; tracing and recovery of assets arising from commercial fraud; misappropriated assets or bribery claims.

Jonathan regularly appears before the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court both in the Commercial Court, the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council, both led and as a junior alone.

Jonathan presents at numerous conferences and authored the BVI chapter of the 3rd edition (2014) of International Fraud and Asset Tracing and more recently, co-authored the BVI chapter in Complex Commercial Litigation (GTDT 2019).

He is an Overseas Member of the Chancery Bar Association; an Honorary Member of COMBAR; a member of the IBA and a member of the C5 Fraud Advisory Board.

Benoit Le Bars, co-founder and Managing Partner of Lazareff Le Bars, is a recognized expert in international arbitration, with respect to institutional (ICC, ICSID, LCIA, CICA, ECT, CCJA, AFA) and ad hoc (UNCITRAL mainly) arbitral proceedings, international dispute resolution, and disputes in Africa since more than 20 years. His practice focuses principally on commercial and investment arbitration involving complex trade relationships between businesses, investors and States, and spans a broad range of jurisdictions and arbitral institutions (more than 70 countries to date and 43 of them in Africa or the middle-east).

PhD in private international law, Benoit Le Bars is also a professor of law in the United States and in France. Benoit recently published an exhaustive treatise of French law cases in international commercial arbitration titled “International Commercial Arbitration: Landmark decisions of French arbitration law” (LexisNexis, 2019).

Sophie Nappert is a dual-qualified lawyer in Canada and in the UK. She is an arbitrator in independent practice, based in Gray’s Inn, London, specializing in international disputes, notably in energy, infrastructure, natural resources, and cross-border investment. Before becoming a full-time arbitrator, she was Head of International Arbitration at a global law firm.

Ms. Nappert is trained and has practiced in both civil law and common law jurisdictions. She is the peer-nominated Moderator of OGEMID, the online discussion forum on current issues of international investment law, economic law and arbitration. She is ranked in Global Arbitration Review’s Top 30 List of Female Arbitrators Worldwide and is commended as a “leading light” in the field by Who’s Who Legal.

Ms. Nappert has great interest in the impact of legal tech in arbitration and successfully completed the University of Oxford Saïd Business School Programme on Blockchain Strategy in 2019.

Ms. Nappert`s 2018 Proskauer Lecture on International Arbitration, entitled Disruption Is The New Black: Practical Thoughts For Keeping International Arbitration On Trend, was nominated for Best Speech at the Global Arbitration Review Awards 2019, a prize which Ms. Nappert was the first female speaker to win in 2016 for her address at the inaugural Annual Lecture of EFILA, the European Federation of Investment Law and Arbitration, Escaping From Freedom? The Dilemma of an Improved ISDS Mechanism.
She is the author of a Commentary on the 2010 UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules: A Practitioner’s Guide (Juris, 2012). She is a guest lecturer at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School and McGill University Faculty of Law. She created the Nappert Prize in International Arbitration, open to young scholars and practitioners worldwide, and administered under the auspices of McGill University.

Michael has practised in the BVI since 1996, prior to which he practised at 5 Fountain Court and 11 New Square. He was a founder partner at WSmiths prior to its merger with Ogier in 2007. He retired as a partner in Ogier in 2014 upon the sale of Ogier Fiduciary Services.

Michael’s practice covers dispute resolution, insolvency, corporate law and trusts. He routinely works with law firms, banks and fiduciary service providers throughout the world with respect to large multi-jurisdictional transactions and disputes.

Michael was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2013, and has sat as a Deputy High Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court since 2011.

He is regularly retained as an expert to provide evidence of BVI law for use in foreign legal and arbitration proceedings

Niccolò Landi graduated in Law from the University of Siena and obtained an LL.M. on international commercial law from the University College Dublin. He is the founder of Studio Legale Landi in association with BeecheyArbitration. Previously, he was an attorney at Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners where he specialized in international arbitration. He is a lecturer in the course on “International Arbitration” at the University of Turin and in the “Certificate in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration – Theory and Practice” at the University of Roma Tre. Niccolò is a past Co-Chair of ArbIt (the Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR)

Mr. John Beechey CBE (Chairman) is an independent arbitrator. He was President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration from January 2009 until June, 2015, Mr. Beechey oversaw the introduction of the new ICC Arbitration and Mediation Rules and new Rules for Experts. He was primarily responsible for the Court’s move to new premises and he proposed and implemented the establishment of the new Governing Body, which has the responsibility for long-term strategic planning for the Court. During his term of office, the Court opened operations in New York and saw the inception of the Jerusalem Arbitration Centre and many changes to the practices of the Court, the principal purpose of which has been to improve the efficiency of the Court and the quality of the service that it offers to its users. Before assuming the Presidency of the ICC Court, he had founded the international arbitration practice at Clifford Chance, where he was a Partner for 25 years. He has a long and distinguished career in dispute resolution.

Russell Harrigan is the Founder and CEO of The Oyster Global Marketing Group which he established in 1997. The Oyster Global Marketing Group roster of clients includes a number of the leading tourism and corporate entities operating in the territory. Mr. Harrigan served as Director of Tourism in the BVI 1989 – 1997 a period which saw the destination established as a global tourism brand using the Nature’s Little Secrets positioning. His tenure as Director also saw significant national planning and strategy development in the yachting and cruise tourism sectors and the development of a National Tourism Strategy.

He also served as Chairman of the BVI Tourist Board 2003 – 2007 a period which saw the expansion of tourism to its highest level of arrivals in all sectors including the development of two new resorts. He is currently on his second tour of duty as Chairman of the BVI Tourist Board effective December 2011. His current focus in the repositioning of BVI tourism after the 2008 global recession. Harrigan is widely recognized regionally and internationally for his tourism, marketing and promotion acumen. Russell’s background is tourism and marketing and he has completed numerous tourism consultancies in the private and public sectors in the BVI and overseas. Harrigan is a graduate of Florida International University.

Russell is also Chairman and CEO of Oyster Publications established in 2006 which publishes Business BVI, an annual business magazine with a global footprint via a print circulation of 40,000 and an online edition. Business BVI also convenes the annual BVI Business Outlook Conference which looks at the year ahead for business and the local economy in the context of global economic changes. www.oysterbvi.com In September 2014, Business BVI launched its inaugural Business BVI ASIA Annual Regional Conference in Hong Kong. www.businessbviasia.com

As a Director of BCQS International, Chris brings over twenty years of experience in the provision of Project and Cost Management, Dispute Resolution, Development Appraisals and Claims Consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector clients, sixteen years within the Caribbean Region.

His experience covers a wide range of projects from iconic towers, resort hotels and state of the art schools, to boutique office refurbishments and residential homes. Prior to joining BCQS, Chris held a senior position at Davis Langdon (now AECOM) in London.

Chris holds a degree in Economics & Quantity Surveying, an MBA with Distinction, he is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACIArb) and is an RICS Registered Valuer.

He is a Board Member of the BVI Arbitration Group set up in conjunction with the BVI International Arbitration Centre to promote BVI Arbitration.

Jeremy Andrews is a Partner in the Litigation & Regulatory group at DLA Piper and leads the Litigation and Arbitration team in the UK. He specialises in complex litigation and international arbitration, with a particular focus on banking and funds, energy and natural resources, fraud and corporate disputes.

Alain Choo Choy QC’s practice covers the full range of company and commercial (including fraud) litigation, arbitration and advisory work. He has a particular interest in cases involving banking and financial services, civil fraud, jurisdiction and conflict of laws disputes. Alain has experience at all levels of the London High Court, including the Supreme Court and Privy Council.  In addition, he has appeared before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands; the BVI Commercial Court and Court of Appeal; and the Mauritius Supreme Court; and in various commercial arbitrations governed under a variety of rules, both in England and abroad (in particular, Paris, Hong Kong & Singapore).  Alain’s recent work in the BVI has included:

• KMG International NV v DP Holding SA (2018), acting for KMG in a claim for the appointment of BVI liquidators over DPH, a Swiss company owing an arbitration award debt of over USD 200 million to KMG. Based on allegations of fraudulent dissipation of assets within the DPH group of companies to frustrate enforcement of the award, the BVI court was persuaded to grant an order for the provisional liquidation of DPH. The case went on appeal on a novel issue of forum non conveniens regarding the appointment of provisional liquidators in the BVI, with the BVI Court of Appeal ruling in KMG’s favour;
• Ben Oldman Special Situations Fund LLP v Karver Investments Ltd and Others (2018), acting for the claimant in a successful stay of a Quistclose proprietary trust claim against BVI-based defendants in respect of shares in a Russian company held by the BVI defendants. The BVI Court of Appeal upheld the grant of the stay at first instance on the critical ground that the trust claim fundamentally depended upon proof of allegations of wrongdoing, including breaches of fiduciary and/or statutory duty under Russian law, and that the first instance judge was therefore entitled to conclude that the more appropriate court to apply the law to the facts would be the Russian court; and
• Symphony Partners Ltd and Others v Keleston Holding Ltd and Others (2019), acting for the claimants in an application for the continuation of ex parte asset freezing relief in aid of substantive ICC arbitration proceedings in Singapore. The relief was sought against BVI incorporated third parties (or “non-cause of action defendants” – NCADs) who were not defendants to the substantive claims in the Singapore arbitration, pursuant to the BVI Court’s power to grant Chabra type injunctive relief in the exercise of its Black Swan jurisdiction.

James Clanchy is an arbitrator in independent practice ( www.jamesclanchy.com ) and works part-time for LexisNexis UK on Lexis®PSL Arbitration, a web-based practical guidance service. He is an associate member of Six Pump Court chambers in London.

James is a solicitor in England & Wales (admitted 1990, non-practising since 2019) and was an avocat at the Paris bar from 1994 to 2008. He spent 20 years as a commercial disputes lawyer In London and Paris, with Withers, Holman Fenwick Willan, and Stephenson Harwood, specialising in shipping, oil and gas, and international trade. He was Registrar and Deputy Director General of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) for four years (2008 to 2012). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and an Aspiring Full Member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA).

He is a supporter of the Prague Rules on the Efficient Conduct of Proceedings in International Arbitration and spoke about the Rules on a panel at the ABA Section of International Law conference in Washington DC in April 2019.