ArbitralWomen Logo
  • About Us
    • Who We Are
    • Board and Committees
    • Individual Membership
      Corporate Membership
  • Membership
    • Individual Membership
    • Corporate Membership
    • Our Corporate Subscribers
  • Our Members
    • Practitioners Database
    • Members Directory
  • YAWP
    • About YAWP
    • YAWP Steering Committee
    • YAWP Events
  • AW Resources
    • ArbitralWomen Materials
    • News About AW Members
    • News
    • Newsletter
    • Publications
    • AW-Kluwer Arbitration Blog
  • Events
    • All Events
    • Event Reports
    • YAWP Events
    • Submit Event
    • Full Calendar
  • Programmes
    • Education & Competitions
    • Mentorship
    • Parental Mentorship
    • Diversity Toolkit
    • Gender Equality
    • Champion for Change
  • Cooperation
    • Partnership
  • Login
Contacts,
Name Details
CARMEN PEREZ ANDUJAR
Liz Snodgrass
Fabienne El-Cid
Erica Franzetti
  • State Contact: District of Columbia
  • Education:

    LL.M., Georgetown University

    LL.B., Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Direito

  • Other Information:

    Named a part of Arbitration Future Leaders

    WHO'S WHO LEGAL: ARBITRATION, 2018-2021

    Ranked as "up and coming"

    CHAMBERS USA, 2020

    Ranked as "up and coming" and "Foreign Expert for Brazil."

    CHAMBERS GLOBAL 2021

    Noted as "extremely effective during cross examination and highly persuasive giving written and oral arguments."

    THE LEGAL 500 LATIN AMERICA 2019

     

  • Firm Country: United States
  • Type of Practitioner: Counsel
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Commercial Law, Domain names, Energy - Natural Resources, Finance - Banking, Hotel - Leisure management, Information - Communication Technologies, Infrastructure, Investment - Concession agreements, Oil - Gas - Mining, Transport, Other
  • Nationality/Nationalities: French
  • 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): , 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): 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
Washington, District of Columbia, US
Laura Jones
Elena Rizzo
Vinita Juneja
Nilufar Hossain
  • State Contact: CA
  • Other Relevant Experience:

    Litigation Finance

  • Publications:

    Circuit Split on 28 U.S.C. § 1782: Are U.S. Courts Trending Against Discovery for Foreign Private Arbitrations? (Kluwer Arbitration Blog)

    Third-Party Financing and the Ability to Recover Fees from an Opposing Party (Lexis Nexis - Lexis Practice Advisor Note)

    Casenote: Crystallex International Corporation v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/11/2 (Journal of Damages in International Arbitration)

    Casenote: Burlington Resources Inc. v. Republic of Ecuador, ICSID Case No. ARB/08/5 (Journal of Damages in International Arbitration)

    Recent New York decisions bolster right to broad discovery in aid of judgments (King & Spalding)

    Commentary: Non-signatory bound by arbitration agreement and adverse inferences arising from non-compliance with discovery orders in dispute regarding copyright and trademark claims under agreement to manufacture in China (International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Awards and Commentaries)

  • Education:

    NYU School of Law (JD); Harvard University (BA)

  • Other Information:

    Litigation Finance

  • Firm Country: United States
  • Jurisdiction: United States
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator, Counsel, Lawyer
  • Practice Areas: Agency - Distribution - Franchising, Air & Space Law, Antitrust Law, Arbitration, Commercial Law, Construction - Engineering, Corporate Law, Energy - Natural Resources, Environment, Finance - Banking, Information - Communication Technologies, Infrastructure, Insolvency, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Investment - Concession agreements, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Mediation, ODR (Online dispute resolution), Oil - Gas - Mining, Public international Law, Sales - Purchases, Technology Transfer, Trade - Industry, Transport, Other
  • Legal System: Common Law, International Law, Islamic Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: American
Berkeley, CA, US
Kate Brown de Vejar
  • Other Relevant Experience:

    Investor-State and International Commercial Arbitration

  • Education:

    LL.M. (Harvard Law School); B.A./LL.B. (University of Queensland)

  • Other Information:

    Member of YAWP Executive Committee; Young ICCA co-Chair (2014-2016)

    Investor-State and International Commercial Arbitration

  • Firm Country: Mexico
  • Jurisdiction: Australia, Mexico, United States
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator, Counsel
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Commercial Law, Construction - Engineering, DRB (Dispute resolution board) - DAB (Dispute adjudication board), Energy - Natural Resources, Infrastructure, Investment - Concession agreements, Oil - Gas - Mining
  • Legal System: Common Law, International Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Australian
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
Isabella Lorduy
  • State Contact: NY
  • Education:

    New York University

    Universidad de los Andes

  • Firm Country: United States
  • Jurisdiction: United States
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Energy - Natural Resources, Oil - Gas - Mining, Public international Law
  • Legal System: Civil Law, Common Law, International Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Colombian
Cia Moss
Anjuli Patel
Sara Koleilat-Aranjo
  • Firm Country: United Arab Emirates
AE
Priya Kumar
  • State Contact: Delhi
  • Education:

    BA (Hons.) History from Hindu College, University of Delhi

    LLB from Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi

  • Other Information:

    Designated as a Senior Advocate by the High Court of Delhi in 2024.

    Core practice of over 29 years has been in commercial litigation across various Courts and Tribunals in India, with specialisation in Arbitration Law.

  • Firm Country: India
  • Speaking Engagements:

    Speaker at Keynote Speaker Session of the International Conference on Comparative Law, held at Amity Law School, Noida in collaboration with School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia;

    Resource Person at Legal Awareness Workshop on Contractual Disputes related to Oil and Natural Gas Industry 

     

  • Jurisdiction: India
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator, Counsel
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Infrastructure, Insolvency, Oil - Gas - Mining, Real Estate, Sales - Purchases
  • Legal System: Common Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Indian
  • 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): Hindi, Speaking Proficiency: Conversational, Professional Proficiency: Testify orally, Understand written documents
Delhi, Delhi, IN
Suzannah Newboult
  • Other Relevant Experience:

    Construction and Engineering Arbitration

  • Other Information:

    Suzannah's focus is on resolving international construction and engineering disputes through negotiation, mediation, adjudication and arbitration for a range of stakeholders.

    Suzannah is ranked in the Chambers & Partners Directory, and listed in Who’s Who Legal Construction and Expert Guides Women in Business Law.

    Having spent over half of her career in the Middle East working across the GCC she is well known as a thought leader and industry commentator for the construction industry.

    She is described in Chambers Global 2018 as: “really positive and engaging in a proactive and thoughtful way, while always looking for an advantage that positively benefits the client’s commercial position." And in relation to the Middle East is “very heavily invested in the region, she tells it exactly as it is in the best possible way. She's very good."

    Construction and Engineering Arbitration

  • Firm Country: United Arab Emirates
  • Jurisdiction: United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Qatar
  • Type of Practitioner: Lawyer
  • Practice Areas: Construction - Engineering
  • Legal System: Civil Law, Common Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: British
Dubai, AE
Abby Cohen Smutny
  • Firm Country: United States
Washington, US
Maria BURGHETTO
  • Publications:

    please see CV

  • Education:

    Law degree (University of Buenos Aires); LLM (University of London)

  • Other Information:

    • Member, ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR (on behalf of ICC Argentina) – Task Force on Arbitration of Climate Change Related Disputes.

    • Current co-chair, Latin American Open Commission (Paris Bar).

    • Founding member and President, French-Argentinean lawyers’ forum (Paris, 2005-present).

    • Founding member and moderator of “Wake up (with) arbitration!” Bi-monthly round tables-.

    • Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (accelerated route).

    • Member, ICC Latin American group.

    • Board Member, Arbitral Women (2018-2020) (international women’s association: http://www.arbitralwomen.com/).

     

    International business transactions, Energy, Construction, Distribution

  • Firm Country: France
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator, Counsel, Lawyer
  • Practice Areas: Agency - Distribution - Franchising, Arbitration, Commercial Law, Construction - Engineering, Energy - Natural Resources, Infrastructure, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Mediation, Oil - Gas - Mining, Other
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Argentinean, Spanish
  • 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): 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): Spanish, 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
Paris, FR
Patricia Nacimiento
  • Publications: Arbitration in Germany(eds. Böckstiegel/Kröll/Nacimiento); see also selected list in cv
  • Education: Rome, Italy; Heidelberg, Germany; San Francisco and New York, USA
  • Other Information: "EXPERIENCE Patricia helps clients on a wide range of disputes work with a special focus on domestic and international arbitration as well as investor state disputes. She specialises in disputes related to energy, construction and post mergers and acquisitions. Patricia gives lectures on arbitration at the universities of Heidelberg, Frankfurt and Saarbrücken. Her experience includes: Representing a government in arbitration proceedings under the Energy Charter Treaty in a USD 3bn dispute Representing a major developer in LCIA proceedings related to a construction in Russia in a USD 1bn Representing a major German steel company in CIETAC proceedings seated in Shanghai and Beijing Representing a government in multijurisdictional arbitration related court proceedings Representing a major German energy provider in arbitration proceedings under the rules of the German Institution of Arbitration MEMBERSHIPS The German government has appointed her in 2007 as one of four arbitrators to the panel of arbitrators at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). As a party representative, she has conducted over 120 arbitration proceedings under the rules of numerous arbitration institutions – including ICC, ICSID, SCC, CIETAC, DIS, LCIA, ICDR, Swiss Chamber of Commerce, Indian Council of Arbitration, and the Danish Institution of Arbitration as well as ad hoc proceedings. PUBLICATIONS She publishes regularly on disputes related subjects and is co-editor of the leading arbitration manuals ""Arbitration in Germany – The Model Law in Practice"" (Kluwer 2015) and ""The New York Convention – a Global Commentary"" (Kluwer 2008). Böckstiegel, Karl-Heinz; Kröll, Stefan Michael; Nacimiento, Patricia (Hrsg.): „Arbitration in Germany – Law and Practice“. Kluwer, 2015 Nacimiento, Patricia; Kronke, Herbert; Otto, Dirk; Port, Nicola Christine (Hrsg.): Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: A Global Commentary on the New York Convention. Köln, 2010 ACCOLADES Listed in ""Germany's Best Lawyers 2019"" for Arbitration and Mediation Handelsblatt Rating in cooperation with Best Lawyers ""...a highly regarded specialist in international arbitration and investment arbitration. Sources praise her 'remarkable intelligence' and 'attention to detail' Who's Who Legal, 2016 ""[A] client singles out lead counsel Nacimiento as particularly skilled, noting she was able to build a client-consultant relationship not only based on professional competence, but also on ties of friendship and trust."" Global Arbitration Review, GAR 100, 2015 ""Experienced arbitrator"" Patricia Nacimiento earns praise for her extensive experience in international investment disputes. Clients say: ""She has a very practical way of working"" Chambers Europe 2015 "
    Arbitration, Litigation, International Commerce and Trade (Head of Practice Group)
  • Firm Country: Germany
  • Jurisdiction: Germany
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator, Counsel, Expert, Lawyer, Mediator
  • Legal System: Civil Law, European Law, International Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: German
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): Danish, Speaking Proficiency: Conversational
    • 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): 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
    • Language(s): Italian, 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): 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
Frankfurt Main, DE
Kinjal Shah
  • State Contact: Ontario
  • Firm Country: Canada
Toronto, Ontario, CA

Page 34 of 57

  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
ArbitralWomen Policies

ArbitralWomen Privacy Policy

ArbitralWomen Terms of Use

ArbitralWomen Membership Agreement

ArbitralWomen Cookies' Policy

© 2026 ArbitralWomen. Designed By SmartFrog Criações
  • About Us
    • Who We Are
    • Board and Committees
  • Membership
    • Individual Membership
    • Corporate Membership
    • Our Corporate Subscribers
  • Our Members
    • Practitioners Database
    • Members Directory
  • YAWP
    • About YAWP
    • YAWP Steering Committee
    • YAWP Events
  • AW Resources
    • ArbitralWomen Materials
    • News About AW Members
    • News
    • Newsletter
    • Publications
    • AW-Kluwer Arbitration Blog
  • Events
    • All Events
    • Event Reports
    • YAWP Events
    • Submit Event
    • Full Calendar
  • Programmes
    • Education & Competitions
    • Mentorship
    • Parental Mentorship
    • Diversity Toolkit
    • Gender Equality
    • Champion for Change
  • Cooperation
    • Partnership
    • Privacy Request
    • Privacy Extend Consent
    • Alter Reports Tests
    • Form Test
  • Login
  • Contact Us
  • Site Search

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.
CLOSE