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Leyla Orak Çelikboya
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- Publications:
Selection of Books
- Türk Ticaret Kanunu Madde 208 Uyarınca Anonim Şirketlerde Satın Alma Hakkı (Right to Purchase Minority Shares in Joint Stock Companies under Art. 208 Turkish Commercial Law), İstanbul, On İki Levha Yayıncılık, 2017
Selection of newsletter articles
- ISTAC Kuralları Uyarınca Süreler (ISTAC Turkish Bulletin, September 2017, online) / Time Limits under the ISTAC Rules (ISTAC Newsletter, September 2017, online)
- Promoting Settlement in International Arbitration (online on mondaq.com)
Third Party Funders in Arbitration (online on mondaq.com)
- Squeeze-Out in Group Companies (online on mondaq.com)
- Increase in Minimum Capital Amounts (coauthored, online on orakcelikboya.av.tr)
- Education:
- Galatasaray University Faculty of Law, graduated in 2010
- Istanbul Bilgi University, LL.M. on Business Law thesis defended in 2017
- Other Information:
- Sits as arbitrator, tribunal secretary, and counsel in national and international arbitration proceedings
- VIAC-CAN Co-ambassador for Türkiye since 2023
- Completed the Delos Arbitration's Writing Awards course as part of the WAWA 2024 edition
- Mentor in ISTAC 2021-2022 Mentorship Programme
- Mentee in the 2019 cycle of Young ICCA Mentoring Programme
- Fluent and fully proficient in Turkish and English, proficient in French, speaks German and Bosnian
- Firm Country:
Turkey
- Speaking Engagements:
Selection of speaking engagements
- Swiss Arbitration Istanbul Event, 25 February 2025, moderator in the first session on Arbitrating under the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration
- VIAC CAN – Hergüner Joint event, 4 October 2025, moderator in the panel on Corporate Disputes in Focus: Effective Arbitration Strategies Event
- ISTAC Arbitration Rules Training Programme, session on initiation of the proceedings, choosing the arbitrators and writing the briefs, 29 March 2024, speaker together with Dr. Kerem Çelikboya
- ICC YAAF Türkiye Training Programme Session 5 on Arbitral Award hosted by Akıncı Law Office on 28 March 2024, panelist, subject: types of arbitral decisions and awards
- Coffee talks with young arbitrators of YoungISTAC, 12 May 2022, speaker together with Att. Ferda Nur Güvenalp
- Young ICCA skill-building webinar on cross-examination of fact witnesses (part of Casablanca Arbitration Days of 2020), 5 December 2020, attending as a fact witness
- Jurisdiction:
Turkey
- Type of Practitioner:
Arbitrator, Counsel, Lawyer
- Practice Areas:
Agency - Distribution - Franchising, Arbitration, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Information - Communication Technologies, Investment - Concession agreements, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Oil - Gas - Mining, Trade - Industry
- Legal System:
Civil Law
- Nationality/Nationalities:
Turkish
- 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):
Turkish, 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):
French, Speaking Proficiency:
Proficient, Professional Proficiency:
Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
Istanbul, TR
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Vinita Juneja
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Barbara Concolino
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- Education:
PhD (2008), Law Degree (2004)
- Firm Country:
Italy
- Jurisdiction:
Italy
- Type of Practitioner:
Counsel, Lawyer
- Practice Areas:
Arbitration, Corporate Law, Energy - Natural Resources, Environment, Investment - Concession agreements, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Oil - Gas - Mining, Public international Law
- Legal System:
Civil Law, European Law, International Law
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Erika Williams
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- State Contact:
QLD
- Other Relevant Experience:
Erika Williams is a leading international arbitration practitioner with over a decade's experience acting in some of Australia's largest disputes resolved through arbitration. Erika has acted in arbitrations under various arbitral institutions including ACICA, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SIAC, CIETAC and JCAA. In addition, Erika has a broad range of general commercial litigation experience, particularly in relation to cross-border disputes, from commencing proceedings and interlocutory actions through to full trials and appeals, including all the way to the High Court of Australia. Erika has acted for a range of clients, including individuals, small and large business, major Australian public companies and multinational corporations across a broad range of sectors including energy, resources and renewables, construction and technology. Erika now provides consultancy services to firms involved in arbitration and cross-border litigation. Her consultancy services include: providing firms that may not have specialist arbitration capabilities with the expert arbitration knowledge required to advise clients in relation to arbitration and to take matters through arbitral proceedings; and assisting firms involved in large scale arbitration or litigation proceedings when an extra set of experienced hands are needed. Erika is also on the arbitrator panels of leading arbitral institutions including the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, the Resolution Institute and the Queensland Law Society and accepts arbitrator and tribunal secretary appointments.
- Publications:
· ‘Enforcing Foreign Arbitral Awards in the Federal Court of Australia‘ (2024) 12(1) The ACICA Review 29
· ‘Institutional Approaches to Ethics in Arbitration‘ (2022) 41(1) The Arbitrator & Mediator 21
· ‘Due Process in a Virtual World‘ (2021) 9(1) The ACICA Review 29
· ‘Facebook (temporarily) Un-Friends Australia: Arbitration as a Tool in Online Media Regulation’, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (Blog Post, 26 March 2021)
· ‘Foreign Investors’ Increasing Awareness of Investor-State Arbitration – view from Australia‘ (2020) 39 Australian Resources and Energy Law Journal 35
· ‘Federal Court of Australia enforces ICSID Awards against Kingdom of Spain’ (2020) 8(1) The ACICA Review 32
· ‘A change in Investment Treaty Climate: Infrastructure Services Luxembourg S.A.R.L. v Kingdom of Spain’ (2019) 7(2) The ACICA Review 39
· ‘The Non-Responsive Respondent: Taking an Arbitration Forward and How’ (2019) 85(1) The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management 65
· ‘Arbitrating Down Under: Highlights and lessons learned from 2018 to 2019‘ (2019) 15(2) Asian International Arbitration Journal 133
· ‘The ‘Bones’ Arbitration: An American Cautionary-Tale for Australian Practitioners’ (2019) 7(1) The ACICA Review 37
· ‘Arb-med-arb: Follow the rules or face the costs: Ku-ring-gai Council v Ichor Constructions Pty Ltd‘ (2019) 38(1) The Arbitrator & Mediator 108
· ‘Out in the cold: WA Court of Appeal upholds freezing order against Spanish-owned construction company involved in arbitration‘ (2019) 38(1) The Arbitrator & Mediator 112
· ‘Internationalising the International Arbitration Act‘ (2019) 38(1) The Arbitrator & Mediator 122
· ‘Apply to Set Aside, or Appeal Against an Award?’ (2018) 38(8) Proctor 14
· ‘Due process paranoia and its role in the future of international commercial arbitration‘ 37(1) The Arbitrator & Mediator 43
· ‘Indemnity cost orders for overzealous applicants: John Holland Pty Ltd v Adani Abbot Point Terminal Pty Ltd‘ 37(1) The Arbitrator & Mediator 99
· ‘Director’s fury over road block to litigation: Mad Max arbitration to be heard in Hollywood’ (2018) 6(1) The ACICA Review 25
· ‘International Arbitration Australia: 2018 Year in Review’ McCullough Robertson Publication
· ‘Australia Signs the Mauritius Convention: How Investor-State Arbitration Might Look With More Transparency‘ (2017) 5(2) The ACICA Review 40
· ‘The Rinehart Saga Continues… in private‘ (2017) 4(1) The CIArb Australia News 103
· ‘International Commercial Arbitration 101’ (2017) 37(11) Proctor 16
· ‘Turbines tussle may test free trade agreement‘ (2017) 37(5) Proctor 20
· ‘Australia: coal and wind interests power ISDS threats‘ (2017) 22(1) International Bar Association Arbitration News 16
· ‘Australian Courts’ Approach to Multi-Party and Multi-Contract Arbitration’ (2016) 4(2) The ACICA Review 29
· ‘Court Slams Sino Dragon’s Attempt to Set Aside Arbitral Award‘ (2016) 3(2) The CIArb Australia News 51
· ‘The Saga of Ye v Zeng‘ (2016) 35(1) The Arbitrator & Mediator 105
- Education:
University of Sydney
- Other Information:
Erika Williams established an independent arbitration practice in 2021 after 15 years in international and national firms acting for parties in some of the largest international and domestic commercial, construction and investor-state disputes resolved through arbitration.
Since then, Erika has sat as sole and presiding arbitrator in arbitrations under institutional rules such as ICC, SIAC, Resolution Institute and ad hoc and served as tribunal secretary in high-value complex cases. Erika was also engaged as Counsel at ACICA from 2021 to 2024 and has consulted to a number of firms on arbitration related matters in her independent capacity.
Erika has been recognised in Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) for arbitration in 2024 and 2025. She has also been listed as a leading arbitration lawyer in Australia in Doyles Guide for the last four years and was recognised as the Arbitration Practitioner of the Year at the Australian ADR Awards 2021.
- Firm Country:
Australia
- Speaking Engagements:
· Guest lecturer, Alternative Dispute Resolution Summer Course, University of Queensland, January 2025
· Panellist, GAR Live Question Time, Global Arbitration Review, November 2024
· Facilitator, Emerging Arbitrator Workshop, Resolution Institute, November 2024
· Chair, Navigating the Uncertainty of the Use of Tribunal Secretaries in Commercial Arbitration, Resolution Institute Conference, November 2024
· Chair, Cross-Border Enforcement of Arbitral Awards: Evolving Standards and Challenges, Regional Arbitral Institutes Forum, November 2024
· Panellist, Fraud and Corruption in International Arbitration, Australian Arbitration Week, October 2024
· Panellist, Conflicts – Choosing, Losing, Schmoosing, Recusing Arbitrators, Australian Arbitration Week, October 2024
· Presenter, ACICA Arbitrator Workshop – Enhancing Your ACICA Experience, Australian Arbitration Week, October 2024
· Presenter, Spotlight on Australia, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Young Members Group, September 2024
· Co-presenter, Alternative Dispute Resolution Masterclass, Queensland Law Society, July 2024
· Debater, The Great Debate, Australian Disputes Centre ADR Conference, March 2024
· Presenter, 20th Annual Contract Law Conference, LegalWise Seminars, March 2024
· Mock Arbitrator, Mock Arbitration Hearing, Singapore Very Young Arbitration Practitioners, August 2023
· Presenter, Non-participating Respondents in International Arbitration Proceedings, Conversations with ICC Australia, July 2023
· Presenter, ACICA International Arbitrator Workshop, ACICA, July 2023
· Chair, Expert Evidence in Arbitration, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators/ACICA International Arbitration Conference, November 2022
· Chair, Have you Insta-agreed to Uber-tration? Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Young Members Group, November 2022
· Co-Presenter, Norton Rose Fulbright Brisbane ADR Week Panel Discussion, October 2022
· Facilitator, Tribunal Secretary Course, ACICA, June 2022
· Presenter, ACICA Rules 2021 Roadshow, ACICA, October 2021
· Panellist, International Arbitration in Oceania, Hemmant’s List and ACICA, September 2021
· Presenter, International Arbitration 101, Queensland Law Society Dispute Resolution Workshop, August 2021
· Panellist, Ethics in Arbitration, Resolution Institute Conference, July 2021
· The Rising Arbitrator’s Challenge, Navigating the Promise and Perils of First Appointments, ACICA45 and Rising Arbitrator’s Initiative, May 2021
- Jurisdiction:
Australia
- Type of Practitioner:
Arbitrator, Counsel, Lawyer
- Practice Areas:
Arbitration, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Environment, Infrastructure, Public international Law
- Legal System:
Common Law, International Law
- Nationality/Nationalities:
Australian
Brisbane, QLD, AU
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Claudia Cavicchioli
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Katie-Beth Jones
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Magda Kofluk
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- Education:
Post Graduate Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration, Queen Mary University of London LLM Jagiellonian University
- Firm Country:
United Arab Emirates
- Jurisdiction:
Iraq, Oman, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
- Type of Practitioner:
Arbitrator, Counsel
- Practice Areas:
Arbitration, Construction - Engineering, DRB (Dispute resolution board) - DAB (Dispute adjudication board), Energy - Natural Resources, Hotel - Leisure management, Infrastructure, ODR (Online dispute resolution), Oil - Gas - Mining, Real Estate, Technical expertise, Transport
- Nationality/Nationalities:
Polish
Dubai, AE
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Patricia Saiz Gonzalez
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Yu-Hsuan Lin
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- Education:
LLB, National Taiwan University
JD, University of Hong Kong
- Type of Practitioner:
Counsel
- Practice Areas:
Finance - Banking, Mediation, Other
- Legal System:
Civil Law
- Nationality/Nationalities:
Taiwanese
- Select Languages:
- Language(s):
Chinese Simplified, Speaking Proficiency:
Native Fluency, Professional Proficiency:
- Language(s):
Chinese Traditional, Speaking Proficiency:
Native Fluency, Professional Proficiency:
- Language(s):
English, Speaking Proficiency:
Proficient, Professional Proficiency:
Hong Kong
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Lara Elborno
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- Publications:
http://kluwerarbitrationblog.com/2015/05/20/roundtablereportlesfemmesdanslarbitrageestcesidifferent/
- Education:
B.S. Psychology, B.A. French and Arabic, J.D. with a concentration on international law, LL.M. in European Law, D.U. Droit de l'arbitrage interne et international
- Firm Country:
France
- Jurisdiction:
United States, France
- Type of Practitioner:
Counsel, Lawyer
- Practice Areas:
Arbitration, E-business, Energy - Natural Resources, Environment, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Oil - Gas - Mining, Public international Law
- Legal System:
Civil Law, Common Law, European Law, International Law
- Nationality/Nationalities:
American
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Esther Mayr
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- Education:
Diplomingenieurin Technical Mathematics, MSc Financial Economics
- Firm Country:
United Kingdom
- Type of Practitioner:
Expert
- Practice Areas:
Energy - Natural Resources, Finance - Banking, Oil - Gas - Mining
- Nationality/Nationalities:
Austrian
London, GB
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May Khoury
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- Education:
Harvard University, B.A., Institut D'Etudes Politiques (SciencesPo), M.A., Boston College Law School, J.D.
- Jurisdiction:
United States
- Type of Practitioner:
Counsel
- Practice Areas:
Arbitration, Construction - Engineering, Energy - Natural Resources, Oil - Gas - Mining
- Legal System:
Civil Law, Common Law
- Nationality/Nationalities:
American, Syrian
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Victoria Clark
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- State Contact:
London
- Publications:
http://www.blplaw.com/expertlegalinsights/articles/timelimitsforawardsthedangerofdeadlines; http://www.blplaw.com/expertlegalinsights/articles/notqualifiedthelessonsoftonicstar https://www.bclplaw.com/en-US/events-insights-news/the-arbitration-act-2024-an-aggregation-of-marginal-gains.html https://www.bclplaw.com/en-US/events-insights-news/ai-in-ia-the-rise-of-machine-learning.html https://www.bclplaw.com/en-US/events-insights-news/time-limits-for-awards-the-danger-of-deadlines.html https://www.bclplaw.com/en-US/events-insights-news/beware-the-hybrid-arbitration-clause.html
- Education:
St Hugh's College, Oxford
- Firm Country:
United Kingdom
- Jurisdiction:
United Kingdom
- Type of Practitioner:
Lawyer
- Practice Areas:
Arbitration, Infrastructure, Insurance, Mediation, Technical expertise
- Legal System:
Common Law
- Nationality/Nationalities:
British
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Martha Harrison
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Lisa Johnson
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Tuuli Timonen
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Payal Chandra
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- Other Relevant Experience:
I am an independent practitioner with over ten years of experience and a primary focus on arbitration, civil and commercial litigation, and advisory.
- Other Information:
I am an independent practitioner with over ten years of experience and a primary focus on arbitration, civil and commercial litigation, and advisory.
- Jurisdiction:
India
- Type of Practitioner:
Counsel
- Practice Areas:
Arbitration, Commercial Law, Construction - Engineering, Insolvency, Mediation, ODR (Online dispute resolution)
- Nationality/Nationalities:
Indian
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Judith Levine
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- Other Relevant Experience:
See CV on this website (Independent Arbitrator, PCA Senior Legal Counsel, White & Case attorney, Australian AG and HCA)
- Publications:
See CV on this website
- Education:
New York University, LLM 2000 (Hauser Global Scholar, Fulbright Scholar); University of New South Wales, Australia, BA/LLB 1998 (with University Medal for Law)
- Other Information:
See CV on this website (Independent Arbitrator, PCA Senior Legal Counsel, White & Case attorney, Australian AG and HCA)
- Firm Country:
Australia
- Jurisdiction:
Australia, United States
- Type of Practitioner:
Arbitrator, Lawyer
- Practice Areas:
Administrative Law, Air & Space Law, Arbitration, Commercial Law, Energy - Natural Resources, Environment, Infrastructure, Insurance, Investment - Concession agreements, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Oil - Gas - Mining, Public international Law, Sales - Purchases, Trade - Industry, Transport
- Legal System:
Common Law, International Law
- Nationality/Nationalities:
Australian, Irish
- 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
Paddington, AU
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Patricia Khoury
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Saleha Hedaraly
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- Nationality/Nationalities:
Canadian
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