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Liz Snodgrass Joins Three Crowns LLP as Partner
Liz Snodgrass has joined the partnership at Three Crowns LLP, based in the firm’s Washington D.C. office. Her practice includes commercial and investment treaty arbitration, focusing on the upstream energy, mining, aerospace and telecoms sectors...
31 March, 2019
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Preeti Bhagnani is Appointed as North America Regional Representative of the Asia-Pacific Forum for International Arbitration
Preeti Bhagnani has been appointed as the Asia-Pacific Forum for International Arbitration Regional Representative for North America. Preeti is a senior associate at White & Case LLP. She represents international corporations and states in commercial...
31 March, 2019
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Judith Gill QC and Catherine Amirfar will Join the Governing Board of ICCA
Judith Gill QC and Catherine Amirfar have been appointed to the Governing Board of ICCA, together with an additional three new Governing Board Members. The five new members will replace the five outgoing members who...
31 March, 2019
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Sally Kotb is Promoted to Counsel in the International Arbitration Department of Baker McKenzie Habib Al Mulla
Sally Kotb has been promoted to counsel in the international arbitration department of Baker McKenzie Habib Al Mulla. Based in Dubai, Sally’s practice focuses on international commercial arbitration with a particular focus on energy and...
29 March, 2019
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Eva Kalnina Joins the Steering Committee of the Young MCIA
Eva Kalnina, a partner at Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler based in Geneva, has joined the Steering Committee of the Young MCIA (Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration). Eva’s practice includes international commercial and investment arbitration, with particular focus...
29 March, 2019
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Larisa Babiy has been elected to the inaugural Executive Committee of AIA-Arbit-40
Larisa Babiy has been elected to the inaugural Executive Committee of AIA-Arbit-40, a young practitioner group established under the auspices of the AIA and ArbIt. Larisa is an associate at Cleary Gottlieb, based in Milan....
28 February, 2019
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Melissa Ordonez is promoted to counsel in the international arbitration group at Hogan Lovells
Melissa Ordonez has been promoted to counsel in the international arbitration group at Hogan Lovells. Based in Paris, Melissa focuses her practice on commercial and investment treaty arbitration, acting for states and companies. Melissa has...
28 February, 2019
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Anna Biasiolo had been appointed as members of the first Executive Committee of AIA-Arbit-40
Anna Biasiolo had been appointed as a member of the first Executive Committee of AIA-Arbit-40, a young practitioner group established under the auspices of the AIA and ArbIt. Anna Biasiolo is a Senior Associate at...
28 February, 2019
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Marina Weiss has been promoted to Counsel in the international arbitration team at Bredin Prat
Marina Weiss has been promoted to Counsel in the international arbitration team at Bredin Prat. Marina advises individual and corporate clients, in addition to States and State entities, in relation to commercial arbitration and investment...
28 February, 2019
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Erin Valentine is promoted to counsel at Chaffetz Lindsey LLP
Erin Valentine has been promoted to Counsel and Head of Client Development at Chaffetz Lindsey, New York. Erin has represented individual, corporate, and sovereign clients in administered and ad hoc arbitrations and in US courts...
28 February, 2019
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Dharshini Prasad, Julie Raneda and Marina Zenkova are appointed to the Committee of YSIAC
Dharshini Prasad is a senior associate in the International Arbitration Practice Group at WilmerHale, London. She focuses on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes and has represented clients in arbitrations in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Dharshini speaks...
28 February, 2019
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Lucy Reed is elected to serve as the next President of ICCA in 2020
Lucy Reed, a long-time member of ArbitralWomen, has been elected as the next President of ICCA, becoming President Elect in April 2019 and President in 2020. In addition to acting as an arbitrator in commercial...
28 February, 2019
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Martje Verhoeven-de Vries Lentsch is promoted to Partner at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in Amsterdam
Martje Verhoeven-de Vries Lentsch has been promoted to Partner at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in Amsterdam. Martje specialises in domestic and international arbitration, as well as commercial litigation. Representing both buyers and sellers under long-term...
15 February, 2019
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Anne-Sophie Tonin is promoted to counsel at Teynier Pic
Anne-Sophie Tonin has been promoted to counsel at Teynier Pic, Paris. Anne-Sophie’s practice focuses on international commercial arbitration, in addition to litigation, in a wide range of sectors. Anne-Sophie is admitted to the Paris Bar...
15 February, 2019
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Athina Fouchard Papaefstratiou appointed Vice Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Young Members’ Group
Athina Fouchard Papaefstratiou has been appointed as Vice Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Young Members’ Group. Athina is a counsel in the litigation group at Eversheds Sutherland. She specialises in international arbitration, investment...
15 February, 2019
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Desley Horton is promoted to counsel at WilmerHale
Desley Horton has been promoted to counsel in the international arbitration practice group at WilmerHale, London. Desley focuses her practice on international arbitration matters across a range of industries, including construction, manufacturing, oil and gas,...
15 February, 2019
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ArbitralWomen Board member Alison Pearsall joins Veolia Environment as Senior Group Counsel
Alison Pearsall, a member of the Board of ArbitralWomen, has joined Veolia Environment as Senior Group Counsel. Alison is based in Paris and provides legal counsel and strategy development in complex arbitration and international litigation...
31 January, 2019
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Samaa Haridi and Claudia Salomon included in Crain’s Notable Women in Law list for 2019
Samaa Haridi and Claudia Salomon have been included in this year’s Notable Women in Law list published by Crain. Samaa is a New York-based partner of Hogan Lovells and a member of the ICC International...
31 January, 2019
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ArbitralWomen member appointed to the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Finland Chamber of Commerce
Tuuli Timonen has been appointed to the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Finland Chamber of Commerce. Tuuli is a senior associate in the International Arbitration Practice Group at White & Case LLP’s Helsinki...
31 January, 2019
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Noiana Marigo named as the new head of the US international arbitration group of Freshfield
Noiana Marigo has been appointed as head of Freshfields’ US international arbitration group and recognized as a 2018 International Arbitration MVP by Law360. Noiana is a partner at Freshfields and co-head of the firm’s Latin...
31 January, 2019
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ArbitralWomen President Dana MacGrath joins Bentham IMF in New York as Investment Manager and Legal Counsel
Dana MacGrath, President of the Board of ArbitralWomen, has joined commercial litigation and arbitration funder Bentham IMF. Dana will be responsible for leading the company’s investment in international arbitration matters. She has extensive experience in...
31 January, 2019
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Ann Ryan Robertson is elected President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators as of 2021
Ann Ryan Robertson, International Partner in Locke Lord LLP’s Houston office, was elected President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators at the Institute’s recent Biennial Congress held in Atlanta Georgia. Elected from a field of...
31 January, 2019
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Julie Spinelli joins Parisian boutique firm as partner
Julie Spinelli has joined the partnership of Le 16 Law, Paris, a dispute resolution boutique, after two years as a senior associate at Derains & Gharavi and eight years at Freshfields in Paris. Julie has...
20 December, 2018
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Natalie Reid is appointed to the LCIA board
Natalie Reid has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the LCIA. Natalie is a partner in the International Disputes Group at Debevoise & Plimpton, where her practice focuses on international arbitration, public international law and...
20 December, 2018
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