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Claudia Krapfl
Katelyn Horne
Zeslene Mao
  • Education:

    National University of Singapore (First Class Hons) Harvard Law School (LLM)

  • Jurisdiction: Singapore, United Kingdom, United States
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator, Counsel, Mediator
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Domain names, Employment, Energy - Natural Resources, Environment, Finance - Banking, Hotel - Leisure management, Infrastructure, Intellectual Property, Investment - Concession agreements, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Mediation, Oil - Gas - Mining, Public international Law
  • Legal System: Common Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Singaporean
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): Chinese Simplified, Speaking Proficiency: Native Fluency, Professional Proficiency: Testify orally, Understand written documents
    • 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
London
Patricia Khoury
Myriam Lace
Kasia Halliday
  • Firm Country: United Arab Emirates
  • Type of Practitioner: Expert
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Construction - Engineering, Energy - Natural Resources, Infrastructure, Mediation, Transport
  • Legal System: Common Law, International Law, Islamic Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Polish
Dubai, AE
Marlena Harutyunyan
  • Other Relevant Experience:

    Baker McKenzie, Paris & NYC (2014-2021)

  • Education:

    Master of Laws, LLM - International Dispute Resolution, merit (Queen Mary University of London) Master's Degree in Commercial Law, cum laude, Magistère de Juriste d'Affaires D.J.C.E., cum laude (PanthéonAssas University, Paris)

  • Other Information:

    Baker McKenzie, Paris & NYC (2014-2021)

  • Firm Country: Switzerland
  • Jurisdiction: France, Switzerland
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator, Counsel
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Commercial Law, Construction - Engineering, Corporate Law, Energy - Natural Resources, Information - Communication Technologies, Infrastructure, Investment - Concession agreements, Oil - Gas - Mining
  • Legal System: Civil Law, European Law, International Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Armenian, French
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): Armenian, 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): 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): French, 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): Russian, 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): Ukrainian, Speaking Proficiency: Conversational, Professional Proficiency: Understand written documents
Geneva, CH
Petya Koycheva
  • Publications:

    Arbitrating Digital Assets Disputes | Dispute Resolution | Freeths

    Should I litigate or arbitrate my IP/IT disputes? | Freeths

    Challenging Arbitration Award Under s68 of the Arbitration Act 1996

    Institutional Arbitration | Emerging and Continuing Trends in 2018

    Ilieva, Petya.pdf

  • Education:

    Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski (Master of Law)

    University of Leicester (LLM)

    City University London (PhD)

  • Firm Country: United Kingdom
  • Type of Practitioner: Counsel
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Commercial Law, Construction - Engineering, Corporate Law, Energy - Natural Resources, Information - Communication Technologies, Intellectual Property, Mediation, Sales - Purchases, Transport
  • Nationality/Nationalities: British, Bulgarian
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): Bulgarian, 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): 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
London, GB
Sanaa Babaa
  • Firm Country: United Kingdom
  • Type of Practitioner: Expert
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Construction - Engineering, Energy - Natural Resources, Finance - Banking, Insolvency, Oil - Gas - Mining, Sales - Purchases
  • Nationality/Nationalities: American, British
London, GB
Solenn Vaugelade
Miriam Harwood
Isabel San Martín
  • Other Information: Acted as counsel in more than 18 international arbitration matters, both investor State and commercial.
  • Firm Country: United Kingdom
  • Type of Practitioner: Counsel
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Public international Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Filipino, 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: Proficient, Professional Proficiency: Conduct DR proceedings, Testify orally, Understand written documents
    • Language(s): Spanish, 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
London, GB
Kamakshi Puri
  • State Contact: Delhi
  • Firm Country: India
  • Jurisdiction: India, United Kingdom
  • Type of Practitioner: Counsel, Lawyer
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Mediation, ODR (Online dispute resolution), Oil - Gas - Mining, Trade - Industry
  • Legal System: Common Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Indian
NewDelhi, Delhi, IN
Dorothee Schramm
  • Other Relevant Experience:

    International and domestic commercial arbitration, private international law

  • Publications:

    See https://swissarbitrator.com/insights/

  • Education:

    Dr.iur., attorney-at-law (Switzerland), FCIArb

  • Other Information:

    CEDR-Accredited Mediator
    International and domestic commercial arbitration, private international law

  • Firm Country: Switzerland
  • Speaking Engagements:

    See https://swissarbitrator.com/insights/

  • Jurisdiction: Germany, Switzerland
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator
  • Practice Areas: Agency - Distribution - Franchising, Arbitration, Commercial Law, Construction - Engineering, Energy - Natural Resources, Information - Communication Technologies, Infrastructure, Intellectual Property, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Sales - Purchases, Technical expertise, Technology Transfer
  • Legal System: Civil Law, Common Law, European Law, International Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: German, Swiss
  • 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: 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
Geneva, CH
Nneka Emilia Onyema
  • Other Relevant Experience:

    Currently sitting as sole arbitrator in an Iranian dispute over FOB commodities sale contract; and co-arbitrator in a Kigali IAC dispute over a joint venture; sole arbitrator in a ICC dispute over investment in property fund. presided over a panel of 3 arbitrators in a shareholder's dispute under Kigali IAC rules. I am also currently sitting as a co-arbitrators in a property dispute under the Abuu Dhabi CCAC Rules

  • Publications:

    Books:

    1.    Emilia Onyema (ed) Rethinking the Role of African National Courts in Arbitration, Kluwer Law International, 2018, 417 pages. 

    2.    - (ed), The Transformation of Arbitration in Africa: The Role of Arbitral Institutions, Kluwer Law International, 2016, 209 pages.

    3.    -, International Commercial Arbitration and the Arbitrator’s Contract, Routledge Cavendish, 2010, 257 pages.

     

    Articles in Refereed Journals:

    1.    Emilia Onyema, “Corruption, Access to Arbitral Justice for Local Communities: Mitigating the Cost of Corruption and Providing access to justice for local communities”, Arbitration: The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management, Vol 90 Issue 4 (2024) 536-554.

    2.    Emilia Onyema, “Sub-Saharan African Courts Decisions on the Challenge of arbitrators”, Paris Journal of International Arbitration (Les Cahiers de l’Arbitrage) 2023-2; pages 1-20.

    3.    -, “African Participation in the ICSID System: Appointment and Disqualification of Arbitrators”, ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal (2020).

    4.    -, “Reimagining the Framework for resolving Intra-African Commercial Disputes in the Context of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement”, World Trade Review (2019), pp 1-25.-,

     

    Chapter in Books/collections:

    5.    Emilia Onyema, “Costs in International Arbitration: Synergy between civil and common law principles” in 'The Plurality and Synergies of Legal Traditions in International Arbitration: Looking Beyond the Common and Civil Law Divide', edited by Nayla Comair Obeid and Stavros Brekoulakis, 2024 (Kluwer Law International) pp. 485-499.

    6.    -, “African Practitioners, International Arbitration and Inclusivity” in “Arbitration’s Age of Enlightenment?” in Cavinder Bull SC, Loretta Malintoppi, and Constantine Partasides KC (general editors) “Arbitration’s Age of Enlightenment?”, ICCA Congress Series No 21, 2022 (Kluwer Law International) pp 575-588.

    7.    -, “The Concept and Scope of the Arbitrator’s Autonomy”, in Stavros Brekoulakis, Romesh Weeramantry and Lilit Nagapetyan (eds.), Achieving the Arbitration Dream: Liber Amicorum for Professor Julian D.M. Lew, KC, 2023, Kluwer law International, pages 327-333.

    8.    -, “OHADA Arbitration and Common Law African Countries”, in A. Ngwanza (ed), Vingt ans d’arbitrage OHADA: bilan et perspectives, LexisNexis, 2019, pages 427-441.

    9.    -, “The Jurisdictional Tensions Between Domestic Courts and Arbitral Tribunals” in Menaker, Andrea (ed) International Arbitration and the Rule of Law: Contribution and Conformity, ICCA Congress Series No 19, Kluwer (2017) pp 481-500

     

    Blogs:

     

    1.    Emilia Onyema, “Arbitration needs the support of vigilant courts”, published on 5 January 2024 by Africa Legal and available at: https://www.africa-legal.com/news-detail/arbitration-needs-the-support-of-vigilant-courts/

    2.    -, “Thoughts on the Chairing Styles adopted by Presiding Arbitrators”, published on 30 January 2023 and available at: https://afas-global.org/thoughts-on-the-chairing-styles-adopted-by-presiding-arbitrators/ 

    3.    -, “What is wrong with the international investment regime”, published on 18 January 2018 and available at https://oxia.ouplaw.com/page/676  

  • Education:

    PhD (Arbitration) from QMUL; LLM (UoL); LLB (Jos);

  • Other Information:

    Current Arbitral Appointments

    1.    Presiding arbitrator appointed by the co-arbitrators in an oil and gas upstream contract between an oil major and a domestic oil company (Nigerian Arbitration and Mediation Act and its annexed Rules. 

    2.    Co-arbitrator appointed by the PCA on behalf of the respondent in a services contract in the oil and gas sector between an IOC and a private domestic Nigerian oil company (UNCITRAL Rules, ongoing)

    3.    Co-arbitrator appointed by the respondent in a shareholder’s joint venture dispute under KIAC rules (ongoing).

    4.    Presiding arbitrator over a mining (construction) dispute between South African and Zambian parties (ad hoc, ongoing).

    5.    Co-arbitrator appointed by the claimant in a construction dispute between Middle Eastern and Indian parties (ad hoc, ongoing).

    6.    PCA appointed arbitrator for the respondent in a construction dispute between a Nigerian state agency and a Turkish company over a world bank funded project (ongoing).

    7.    Presiding arbitrator over a share options purchase dispute between South African parties (ad hoc, ongoing).

    8.    Co-arbitrator in an Iranian Chamber commodities dispute between an Iranian and Ukrainian parties (ongoing).

     

    Concluded Arbitrator Appointments/cases:

    1.    Sole arbitrator over a distribution contract between Iranian and Iraqi parties (concluded with final award).

    2.    Sole Arbitrator in an ICC construction (delay) dispute (concluded with final award).

    3.    Presiding arbitrator (nominated by the co-arbitrators) in PCA seated ad hoc arbitration on construction dispute (concluded via settlement).

    4.    Sole arbitrator in CIArb Business Arbitration Service Case on debt recovery (concluded).

    5.    Sole Arbitrator in a commodities sales contract (administered by the Iranian IAC, concluded with final award) 

    6.    Co-arbitrator nominated by the Respondent in a KIAC arbitration on service contract for works and decorations (concluded with final award).

    7.    Sole Arbitrator in ICC arbitration on distributorship contract (concluded through settlement by the parties).

    8.    Sole Arbitrator in CIArb Business Arbitration Service Case on debt recovery (concluded with final award).

    9.    Sole arbitrator under Swiss Rules on breach of contract (administered by KIAC, concluded with final award).

    10.  Sole Arbitrator in CIArb Business Arbitration Service Case on debt recovery (concluded with final award).

    11.  Sole Arbitrator in CIArb Business Arbitration Service Case on debt recovery (concluded with final award).

    12.  Sole Arbitrator under Abu Dhabi CCAC Rules in a sub-contract construction dispute (concluded with final award).

    13.  Sole Arbitrator in an ICC arbitration over real estate Fund investment (concluded through settlement by the parties).

    14.  Presiding arbitrator over a shareholder’s contract dispute under KIAC Rules (concluded with final award).

    15.  Co-arbitrator under a real estate purchase contract dispute under ADCCAC Rules (concluded through settlement by the parties).

    Experience as Legal Expert Witness

    1.    Acted as expert witness in ICC case on Nigerian law on set off.

    2.    Acted as expert witness in ICC case on Nigerian Export Processing Zone law.

  • Firm Country: United Kingdom
  • Jurisdiction: Nigeria, United Kingdom
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator, Expert, Lawyer
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Commercial Law, Construction - Engineering, Corporate Law, Insurance, Investment - Concession agreements, Maritime Law, Real Estate, Sales - Purchases
  • Legal System: Common Law, International Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: British
  • 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
London, GB
Andrea Stauber
Imani Tisdale
Fatma Amira Abdallah
Alessia Norsa
Deepa Khandhia

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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.

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  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.
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