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Kiera Gans
  • Other Relevant Experience:

    Commercial Arbitration, Investment Treaty Arbitration

  • Education:

    JD, Masters in International Relations

  • Other Information:

    Commercial Arbitration, Investment Treaty Arbitration

  • Firm Country: United States
  • Type of Practitioner: Counsel
  • Legal System: International Law
Vanda Kopic
  • Education:

    Law Degree at Bocconi University, Milan (2017)

  • Firm Country: Italy
  • Jurisdiction: Italy
  • Type of Practitioner: Lawyer
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Construction - Engineering, Energy - Natural Resources, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Oil - Gas - Mining
  • Legal System: Civil Law, European Law, International Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Croatian
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): Croatian, Speaking Proficiency: Native Fluency
    • Language(s): English, Speaking Proficiency: Proficient
    • Language(s): Italian, Speaking Proficiency: Native Fluency
Milano, IT
Laura Azaria
  • Publications:

    https://www.lalive.law/laura-azaria/

  • Education:

    Academic qualifications

    LLM, Columbia Law School (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), 2013 – 2014

    Certificate of Advanced Studies in Legal Professions, University of Geneva, 2011

    Master of Laws in Economic Law, University of Geneva, 2010

    Bachelor of Laws, University of Geneva, 2009

  • Other Information:

    https://www.lalive.law/laura-azaria/

    https://www.lalive.law/laura-azaria/

  • Firm Country: Switzerland
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator, Counsel
  • Practice Areas: Agency - Distribution - Franchising, Arbitration, Commercial Law, Construction - Engineering, Corporate Law, DRB (Dispute resolution board) - DAB (Dispute adjudication board), Energy - Natural Resources, Information - Communication Technologies, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, ODR (Online dispute resolution), Public international Law, Real Estate, Sales - Purchases, Technology Transfer
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Spanish
  • 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: 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): German, Speaking Proficiency: Conversational, Professional Proficiency: Understand written documents
    • Language(s): Spanish, Speaking Proficiency: Conversational, Professional Proficiency: Understand written documents
Geneva, CH
Elisa Legorreta Pastor
Mina Popova
Serena Cooke
Jurgita Petkutė
  • Publications:

    See enclosed CV

  • Education:

    LL.M. in International Commercial Arbitration from Stockholm University; Master of Laws degree from Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius)

  • Other Information:

    See enclosed CV

    Jurgita Petkute is a partner at KNOETZL, a leading Austrian law firm in arbitration, litigation, alternative dispute resolution, business crime and corporate crisis management.

    Jurgita specializes in international commercial and investment arbitration where her experience spans over 15 years covering a wide array of high-value and complex arbitration disputes particularly in the Baltic region as well as Central, Eastern and Nothern Europe. While she advises clients from all industries, in recent years her practice was particularly focused on disputes arising out of engineering and construction projects (with contracts based on the FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Construction and other) and energy disputes (electricity, oil, gas exploration, transport and supply agreements).

    Jurgita is regularly appointed to act as arbitrator and in this capacity has handled arbitrations under the arbitration rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), Vienna International Arbitral Center (VIAC), Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration (VCCA) and the Finnish Arbitration Institute (FAI).

  • Firm Country: Austria
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator, Counsel
  • Practice Areas: Agency - Distribution - Franchising, Construction - Engineering, Corporate Law, Energy - Natural Resources, Insurance, Investment - Concession agreements, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Maritime Law, Public international Law, Real Estate, Sales - Purchases
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Lithuanian
  • 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): German, Speaking Proficiency: Conversational
    • Language(s): Lithuanian, 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): Russian, Speaking Proficiency: Conversational
Vienna, AT
Mary Jane Stitt
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator, Mediator
Sofia Vale
Ophélie Divoy
Tiffany Chan
Jae Hee Suh
  • Publications: The “Problem” of Costs in Arbitration: Controlling, Allocating and Funding Costs”, edited by Chin Leng Lim (The Cambridge Companion to International Arbitration) (Co-authored with Matthew Hodgson), 2021 Interpretation of pathological clauses: a cautionary tale?, Practical Law Arbitraion Blog, 2019 Emergency Arbitrator Relief: A Practical Guide (Co-authored with Matthew Hodgson and Kellie Yi), Korean Arbitration Review, 2018 Disclosure of third party funding – Hong Kong and Singapore setting the trend?, Practical Law Arbitration Blog, 2017 Opening the gates for third party funding – recent developments in Hong Kong and Singapore and lessons for Korea (Co-authored with Andrew Pullen), Korean Arbitration Review, 2017 Global Arbitration Review (GAR) Know-How: Investment Treaty Arbitration, Belize (Co-authored with Angeline Welsh and Mirrette Grant), 2015 Conquer English First, if you aspire to be a global leader (Galim Publishing) (in Korean), 2009
  • Education: University of Oxford (LLB, 2012) University of Hong Kong (PCLL, 2013)
  • Firm Country: Singapore
  • Jurisdiction: Singapore, Hong Kong, United Kingdom
  • Type of Practitioner: Counsel
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Commercial Law, Investment - Concession agreements, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Oil - Gas - Mining, Public international Law
  • Legal System: Common Law, International Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: South Korean
  • 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): Korean, Speaking Proficiency: Native Fluency, Professional Proficiency: Testify orally, Understand written documents
Singapore, SG
Teresa Giovaninni
Anne Littlewood
Andrea Espejo
Vanessa Thieffry
Marleen Krueger
Nadia Nicolaou
Katelyn Horne
CARMEN PEREZ ANDUJAR

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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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