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Helen Lehto
Assunta Ndami
  • Education: LLM - Queen Mary University of London
  • Firm Country: Kenya
  • Jurisdiction: France, United Kingdom, Kenya
  • Type of Practitioner: Analyst, Arbitrator, Counsel, Mediator
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Audiovisual - Media, Commercial Law, DRB (Dispute resolution board) - DAB (Dispute adjudication board), E-business, Environment, Mediation, ODR (Online dispute resolution)
  • Legal System: Common Law, International Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Kenyan
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): English, Speaking Proficiency: Native Fluency, Professional Proficiency: Conduct DR proceedings, Represent clients as an advocate in DR proceedings, Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
    • Language(s): French, Speaking Proficiency: Proficient, Professional Proficiency: Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
Nairobi, KE
Dana MacGrath
  • State Contact: NY
  • Other Relevant Experience:

    Litigation finance; international arbitration; international litigation; U.S. judicial enforcement of arbitration awards

  • Publications:

    “Mute Off Thursdays Celebrates its First Anniversary on 15th April 2021!” ArbitralWomen News Page – April 2021 “Launch of Racial Equality for Arbitration Lawyers (REAL)” ArbitralWomen News Page – December 2020 “Launch of the ERA Pledge Corporate Guidelines!” ArbitralWomen News Page – November 2020 “Circuit Split on 28 U.S.C. § 1782: Are U.S. Courts Trending Against Discovery for Foreign Private Arbitrations?” Kluwer Arbitration Blog – October 2020 “Second Circuit Rules in Hanwei Guo that Section 1782 Does Not Apply to Private Commercial Arbitrations” ICC Dispute Resolution Bulletin, Issue 3 – 2020 “Third-Party Funding and Covid-19” Chapter 10 of International Arbitration and the Covid-19 Revolution, Kluwer International – October 2020 “The Launch of Mute Off Thursdays – Virtual Networking and Knowledge-Exchange for Women in Arbitration” ArbitralWomen News Page – May 2020 “Response by the European Commission on “CETA Arbitrator Roster – Where Are the Women?” ArbitralWomen News Page – May 2020 “Necessary Change: Planning Past Bias Through the ArbitralWomen Diversity Toolkit™” ArbitralWomen News Page – May 2020 “Several Firsts for the 2020 Vis East Moot (Virtual Vis East – VVE)” ArbitralWomen News Page – April 2020 “CETA List of Arbitrators – Where are the Women?” ArbitralWomen News Page – January 2020 “Increased Transparency in Arbitrator Appointment Procedures in Commercial Arbitrations” Practical Law Arbitration Blog – April 25, 2018 “Landmark Decision on Arbitral Immunity: The Risk of Sanctions for Lawsuits Against Arbitrators” Alternatives, Vol. 33 No. 9 – October 2015 “Arbitration of International Commercial Disputes” Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel – Robert L. Haig, ed. – 2015 “Does A Private International Arbitration Fall Within ‘Foreign or International Tribunal’ in 28 U.S.C. § 1782? Practice Pointers for Seeking Discovery in Aid of Arbitration after Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.,” American Arbitration Association Yearbook on Arbitration and the Law, Juris Publishing, Inc. – 2011

  • Education:

    J.D., New York University School of Law (New York USA) B.A., Middlebury College (Vermont USA)

  • Other Information:

    Dana MacGrath is an independent arbitrator with more than two decades of experience in international dispute resolution. Her unique mix of experience includes serving as an arbitrator, arbitration practitioner, and in-house counsel in arbitration finance. Most recently, Dana served as Legal Counsel and Investment Manager at Omni Bridgeway, a leading global litigation and arbitration finance company. In this role, she led arbitration investments out of the United States while also serving as an independent arbitrator. Prior to joining Omni Bridgeway, Dana was a partner in the international arbitration group at Sidley Austin LLP. Previously, she served as an international arbitration practitioner and arbitrator at Allen & Overy LLP and O’Melveny & Myers LLP. She started her legal career in the litigation department at Sullivan & Cromwell. Dana’s high-stakes international arbitration matters have involved a variety of businesses and industries, among them oil and gas, LNG, energy, construction, finance, telecommunications, intellectual property, construction, sale of goods, and international investments. She has also represented parties regarding the enforceability of arbitration agreements and arbitral awards under the New York Convention, disputes regarding forum selection and choice of law clauses, sovereign immunity, arbitral immunity, and discovery pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782. Dana has been recognized as a leader in international arbitration in various directories including Chambers USA – Nationwide – International Arbitration and Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration. She has also been recognized in the field of arbitration finance in various directories including Leaders League – Arbitration Finance and LawDragon: Global 100 Leaders in Legal Finance. Dana is active within the international arbitration field across arbitral institutions and organizations. She is on the Council of the AAA-ICDR, co-chairs the AAA Large Complex Case Committee, and is a member of the AAA Nominating and Governance Committee. Dana is also an active member of the CPR Arbitration Committee. Previously she served as Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and as co-chair of the CPR Institute Arbitration Rules Revision Committee that revised CPR’s domestic and international arbitration rules. Additionally, Dana served on the ICC Commission on Arbitration Task Force on Reducing Time and Cost in Complex Arbitration and the ICC Commission on Arbitration Task Force on National Rules of Procedure for Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Awards Pursuant to the New York Convention of 1958. Dana is a committed leader in the diversity and inclusion space. She has been President of the Board of Directors of ArbitralWomen since 2018, having joined the Board in 2016. She is also on the Global Steering Committee of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge, and on the Global Steering Committee of Racial Equality for Arbitration Lawyers. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Rising Arbitrators Initiative and the North American Committee for the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations. Dana regularly speaks and writes on international arbitration issues. She co-authored a chapter on Covid-19 and Third-Party Funding published by Kluwer International in 2020, and several articles on recent case law regarding U.S. discovery pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782 in aid of foreign arbitrations. She has long served as an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School teaching a seminar on international commercial arbitration and coaching the Brooklyn Vis Moot team. Dana received her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her B.A., cum laude, from Middlebury College. She is a member of the New York Bar. She is fluent in English and proficient in French, having majored in French at Middlebury and lived in Paris for a year. *Disclaimer: Attorney Advertising*
    Litigation finance; international arbitration; international litigation; U.S. judicial enforcement of arbitration awards

  • Firm Country: United States
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Intellectual Property, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Oil - Gas - Mining
  • Nationality/Nationalities: American
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): English, Speaking Proficiency: Native Fluency, Professional Proficiency: Conduct DR proceedings, Represent clients as an advocate in DR proceedings, Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
    • Language(s): French, Speaking Proficiency: Conversational, Professional Proficiency: Understand written documents
NewYork, NY, US
Luisa Zukowski
Zara Desai
Nikki Coles
  • Education:

    LLB, King's College London

    Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales

  • Other Information:

    Listed in Who's Who Legal as Arbitration: Expert Witness - Future Leader

  • Firm Country: United Kingdom
  • Type of Practitioner: Expert
  • Practice Areas: Agency - Distribution - Franchising, Arbitration, Competition, Finance - Banking, Hotel - Leisure management, Intellectual Property, Investment - Concession agreements, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Oil - Gas - Mining, Sales - Purchases, Transport
  • Nationality/Nationalities: British
Sally Pei
Katia Finkel
Florencia Villaggi
Manuela Costa
  • State Contact: Lisbon
  • Firm Country: Portugal
  • Jurisdiction: Brazil, Portugal, United States
  • Type of Practitioner: Counsel
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Commercial Law, Construction - Engineering
  • Legal System: Civil Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Brazilian, Portuguese
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): English, Speaking Proficiency: Proficient, Professional Proficiency: Conduct DR proceedings, Represent clients as an advocate in DR proceedings, Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
    • Language(s): , Speaking Proficiency: Native Fluency, Professional Proficiency: Conduct DR proceedings, Represent clients as an advocate in DR proceedings, Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
Lisbon, Lisbon, PT
Marina Zarubin
  • Education: University of Oxford; University of Law, London
  • Other Information: https://www.clearygottlieb.com/professionals/marina-zarubin
  • Firm Country: United Kingdom
  • Type of Practitioner: Lawyer
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Commercial Law
  • Legal System: Common Law
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): English, Speaking Proficiency: Proficient
    • Language(s): French, Speaking Proficiency: Conversational
    • Language(s): German, Speaking Proficiency: Proficient
    • Language(s): Russian, Speaking Proficiency: Proficient
London, GB
Pelin Karan
Inka Hanefeld
  • Firm Country: Germany
  • Jurisdiction: Germany
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator
  • Legal System: Civil Law, Common Law, European Law
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): English, Speaking Proficiency: Proficient
    • Language(s): German, Speaking Proficiency: Proficient
Hamburg, DE
Juliane Reschke
Karen Best
  • Other Relevant Experience:

    Expert in Delay Analysis: Karen is a chartered civil engineer with over 25 years of experience in the construction and engineering industries. She is experienced in construction management, project planning and critical path methods of retrospective delay analysis. Karen has worked on expert appointments related to delay and disruption claims regarding civil engineering and building contracts from power plants in Qatar and industrial facilities in Australia to numerous buildings and infrastructure projects across Europe, UK and Africa.

  • Education:

    MICE CEng; MCIArb; BEng Civil Engineering; MSc Construction Law and Arbitration

  • Other Information:

    Expert in Delay Analysis: Karen is a chartered civil engineer with over 25 years of experience in the construction and engineering industries. She is experienced in construction management, project planning and critical path methods of retrospective delay analysis. Karen has worked on expert appointments related to delay and disruption claims regarding civil engineering and building contracts from power plants in Qatar and industrial facilities in Australia to numerous buildings and infrastructure projects across Europe, UK and Africa.

  • Firm Country: United Kingdom
  • Type of Practitioner: Expert
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Construction - Engineering, Infrastructure, Oil - Gas - Mining, Transport
  • Nationality/Nationalities: British
London, GB
Monika McQuillen
  • Other Relevant Experience:

    see attached CV

  • Education:

    see attached CV

  • Other Information:

    see attached CV

    see attached CV

  • Firm Country: Switzerland
  • Jurisdiction: Switzerland
Jessica Killeen
Fabienne Borde
  • Other Relevant Experience:

    Expert determination, international arbitration, domestic litigation

  • Publications:

    ICC Institute of World Business Law. Dossier XV "Dispute Prevention and settlement through Expert Determination and Disputes Boards" : Expert Determination by Accounting Firms

  • Education:

    EM LYON

  • Other Information:

    Expert determination, international arbitration, domestic litigation

  • Firm Country: France
  • Jurisdiction: France
  • Type of Practitioner: Expert, Forensic Consultant
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration
  • Nationality/Nationalities: French
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): French, Speaking Proficiency: Native Fluency, Professional Proficiency: Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
    • Language(s): English, Speaking Proficiency: Proficient, Professional Proficiency: Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
Paris, FR
Siobhan Forster
Annika Opitz
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator
  • Nationality/Nationalities: British
  • Select Languages:
    • Speaking Proficiency: Conversational

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Policy on Funding Moot Competition Teams

Each year ArbitralWomen provides support to a number of Teams who participate in dispute resolution competitions, such as the Vis or Vis East International Arbitration Moot by covering their registration fee.

Following are the conditions for the funding:

  1. Any qualified team requesting financial assistance must complete an application form providing details of the teams, resources, and the reason for the requested assistance. The application form is available on the website, and may be amended from time to time as the Board deems appropriate.
  2. The Board, through its Moot Bursary Committee, shall consider all applications received and decide which team(s) shall be supported through payment of its(their) registration fee to compete. In general, teams selected will be from different countries. Applications filed after the deadline will be disregarded.
  3. Criteria of selection:
    • The team must reflect ArbitralWomen's mission of promoting the participation of women in dispute resolution, i.e. at least half of the members of a team must be women.
    • The team must demonstrate the need for financial assistance.
    • Priority will be given to teams:
      • who have not previously participated, and whose school has not previously participated;
      • who have no support from their universities or no coach;
      • who come from developing countries or jurisdictions which, in the sole discretion of the Board, are in the greatest need of support for the advancement of women in dispute resolution;
      • of smaller number of students composing the team (for example 4 students as opposed to 8).
  4. An all-female team may be awarded the ArbitralWomen President’s Bursary if the other requirements are met.
  5. Nothing in this Policy prevents a team, which has already received funding in one year, from applying in future years. The Board shall treat each application on its merits and in relation to other applications received for that particular year.
  6. The Board shall effect payment to the final payee rather than directly to the team. In the event the team for any reason cannot participate, the Board at its sole option may request a refund from the organising authority, may request the organising authority to apply the funds to assist another team in that year, or may request that the funds be used to pay for another team in the following year.
  7. Funding will, in the first instance, be sought from external sponsors, who shall be identified and introduced to the sponsored team(s). Further funding by ArbitralWomen itself in any given year will be contingent upon the existence and maintenance of sufficient funds in the account of ArbitralWomen. Each year, the Board will decide the number of awards to be given in that year. Nothing in this Policy obliges the Board to provide funding in any given year.
  8. Although the ArbitralWomen Moot Bursaries are limited to payment of the registration fee, as mentioned above, there is nothing to prevent the chosen sponsors from providing additional assistance to the teams assigned as their "fundee", but any such arrangement will be made directly between the sponsor and the applicable team.
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