Vanessa Alarcon Duvanel has joined King & Spalding as Counsel in its Geneva office on 11 November 2019. She is the first member of King & Spalding’s international arbitration team to be based in Geneva,...
2 December, 2019 Read more
Antonia Birt has joined the partnership at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP in Dubai. Antonia was formerly a senior associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. She acts as counsel and advocate in commercial and construction...
8 November, 2019 Read more
Nathalie Voser has been appointed as Co-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Guidelines and Rules Subcommittee with effect from 1 January 2020. Nathalie is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Dispute Resolution Group and based in Zurich....
17 October, 2019 Read more
Jennifer Permesly has been appointed as Co-Chair of the IBA’s Insolvency in International Arbitration Subcommittee with effect from 1 January 2020. Jennifer is counsel in the international litigation and arbitration team at Skadden, Arps, Slate,...
17 October, 2019 Read more
Noiana Marigo has been appointed as Co-Chair of the IBA’s Investment Arbitration Subcommittee with effect from 1 January 2020. Noiana is a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, head of the firm’s US international arbitration group...
17 October, 2019 Read more
Catherine Anne Kunz has been promoted to the partnership of LALIVE with effect from 1 January 2020. Based in Geneva, Catherine specialises in international arbitration and disputes relating to commercial contracts. She acts as both...
17 October, 2019 Read more
Samaa Haridi has been appointed as Senior Vice Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee and Co-Chair of the IBA’s Africa Arbitration Group with effect from 1 January 2020. Samaa is a partner at Hogan Lovells LLP...
17 October, 2019 Read more
Gaëlle Filhol, a member of the Board of ArbitralWomen, has been appointed as Managing Partner of Paris boutique Betto Perben Pradel Filhol. Gaëlle advises and represents clients in international commercial arbitration proceedings, including pre-arbitration disputes and negotiations, and...
17 October, 2019 Read more
Kate Davies has been appointed as Secretary of the IBA Arbitration Committee with effect from 1 January 2020. Kate is a partner in the International Arbitration Group at Allen & Overy LLP, based in London....
17 October, 2019 Read more
Kate Brown de Vejar, a former member of the Steering Committee of YAWP, has been appointed as Co-Chair of the IBA’s Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Subcommittee with effect from 1 January 2020. Based...
17 October, 2019 Read more
Preeti Bhagnani has been promoted to the partnership at White & Case LLP with effect from 1 January 2020. Preeti represents international corporations and states and specialises in commercial and investor-state arbitration across a wide range...
17 October, 2019 Read more
Dorothee Schramm has been appointed to the Board of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) with effect from 1 January 2020. Dorothee is a partner at Sidley Austin LLP, based in Geneva, and sits as an arbitrator...
3 October, 2019 Read more
Noradèle Radjai has been appointed to the Board of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) and as co-chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee’s new in house counsel group with effect from 1 January 2020. Based in...
3 October, 2019 Read more
Lucy Reed has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Mauritius International Arbitration Centre. In addition to acting as an arbitrator in commercial and treaty cases, Lucy is now Professor on the Faculty of...
3 October, 2019 Read more
Iuliana Iancu has been promoted to the partnership at Hanotiau & van den Berg. Based in Brussels, Iuliana has acted as counsel and tribunal secretary in arbitration proceedings in the banking, insurance, telecommunications, energy and...
18 September, 2019 Read more
Kim Franklin QC has been co-opted to the Committee of the London Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Kim is based at Crown Office Chambers specialises in international arbitration, with particular focus on complex construction, engineering and infrastructure...
6 September, 2019 Read more
Claire Stockford has joined the partnership at Eversheds Sutherland in London with effect from August 2019. Claire was previously a partner at Shepherd and Wedderburn. Claire specialises in international arbitration — both commercial and investor-state...
29 August, 2019 Read more
Joan Stearns Johnsen has been appointed as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Dispute Resolution. Joan has over twenty-five years of experience as an arbitrator and mediator handling complex commercial, employment, and financial disputes....
29 August, 2019 Read more
Carine Dupeyron has been appointed as General Secretary of the Paris Arbitration Academy, which provides advanced Summer Courses in Paris to students and young practitioners interested in international arbitration. Based in Paris, Carine is a partner and...
22 August, 2019 Read more
Aline Wey Speirs joined the partnership at Altenburger with effect from 1 June 2019 and co-heads the firm’s dispute resolution team. She was previously counsel at CMS von Erlach Poncet Ltd and in parallel served...
22 August, 2019 Read more
Abby Cohen Smutny has been appointed as the global head of White & Case LLP’s International Arbitration Practice with effect from 1 July 2019. Abby is based in Washington, DC and represents parties in international commercial arbitration...
22 August, 2019 Read more
Mônica Mendonça Costa has been appointed as Vice Chair of the CPR’s Brazilian Advisory Board with effect from July 2019. Based in São Paulo, Mônica is a member of the Arbitration and Litigation practice group at TozziniFreire....
22 August, 2019 Read more
Meredith Craven has joined White & Case LLP in Houston as an associate in the international arbitration practice group. Meredith was previously an associate at Chaffetz Lindsey LLP. Meredith has represented parties in both commercial...
31 July, 2019 Read more
Four ArbitralWomen members are appointed to CPR’s Young Attorneys in Dispute Resolution (Y-ADR) Steering Committee. Another ArbitralWomen member, Natalie Reid, will continue acting as Co-Chair of CPR Y-ADR for a further one-year term. Saadia Bhatty,...
31 July, 2019 Read more