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Daniella Anthony
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- Education:
MLaw, University of Zurich Blaw, University of Zurich
- Type of Practitioner:
Counsel
- Practice Areas:
Arbitration
- Legal System:
Civil Law, International Law
- Nationality/Nationalities:
Canadian, German, Swiss
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Chloé De Jager
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- State Contact:
Gauteng
- Education:
LLB, University of the Witwatersrand, 2010
MSc Construction Law and Dispute Resolution, Kings College London, 2017
- Firm Country:
South Africa
- Jurisdiction:
South Africa
- Type of Practitioner:
Counsel
- Practice Areas:
Administrative Law, Arbitration, Commercial Law, Construction - Engineering, DRB (Dispute resolution board) - DAB (Dispute adjudication board), Infrastructure, Insolvency, Mediation, Oil - Gas - Mining
- Legal System:
Common Law
- Nationality/Nationalities:
Dutch, South African
- Select Languages:
- Language(s):
Afrikaans, Speaking Proficiency:
Conversational, Professional Proficiency:
- Language(s):
Dutch, Speaking Proficiency:
Conversational, Professional Proficiency:
- 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
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Munia El Harti Alonso
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- Other Relevant Experience:
Senior Consultant, Xtrategy LLP (Washington DC) Associate, Von Wobeser y Sierra (Mexico) Senior Law Clerk, International Litigation, Carballo Law (Miami) Adviser, EU Delegation to the United Nations (New York) Extern, International Arbitration, Jenner & Block (Washington DC) Trainee, Derains & Gharavi (Paris) Contributing Editor, AfronomicsLaw (Washington DC) Assistant to the Minister Counsellor in charge of Investment and Trade negotiations (CETA, TTIP) of the Spanish Permanent Representation to the EU / Spanish MFA (Brussels)
- Publications:
Book chapter: The Risks of ISDS Cases Brought by Foreign Investors Against the Latin American States as the Result of COVID-19 Measures in Balancing the Protection of Foreign Investors and States Responses in the Post-Pandemic World, Wolters Kluwer (co-authored, forthcoming) - Book chapter: Treaty Drafting and Landmark Cases: Latin American States as Contributors to the Investor-State Dispute Settlement System in Oxford Handbook on International and the Americas, Oxford University Press (co-authored, forthcoming) - A Report of the Year in Review - the Magnificent Seven, The Journal of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, ITA in review 2021, Vol. 3 No. 2. - Comment on the China Machine New Energy Corp's ("CMNC") decision, September 2021, Lexis Nexis MENA (co-authored) - The Rise of Investor-State Public Health Disputes: Lessons Learned from the Idiosyncrasy of Argentinian and NAFTA Cases in the Era of COVID-19, Revista Contexto N° 56, 2021 (co-authored) - 'The Kenya-US Trade Negotiations: An Opportunity to Comprehensively Rethink Treaty Making in Africa', AfronomicsLaw March 10, 2021, (co-authored) - The Case for an EU Protagonist Role on Third Party Funding Regulation" (2018). Law and Justice in the Americas Working Paper Series. 11. - Un análisis institucional de la Sentencia del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea en el caso Achmea, Estudios sobre Jurisprudencia Europea: materiales del III Encuentro anual del Centro español del European Law Institute / Albert Ruda González (dir.), Carmen Jerez Delgado (dir.), Vol. 2, 2020 (Derecho mercantil. Derecho procesal penal. Derecho del trabajo y de la Seguridad Social. Derecho constitucional. Derecho administrativo. Inmigración y asilo. Derecho financiero. - Author (book chapter) Jurisprudencia de Derecho Administrativo. FORO. Revista de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, Nueva Época, 2015. - Recurring contributor to the Wolters Kluwer Arbitration Blog (12 publications) and AfronomicsLaw Blog (11 publications).
- Education:
Georgetown Law, LLM Université Panthéon Assas, Master II Universidad Complutense de Madrid, PHD Applicant Université Lille II, Bachelors
- Other Information:
Young ICCA Mentee to Claus Von Wobeser Senior Consultant, Xtrategy LLP (Washington DC) Associate, Von Wobeser y Sierra (Mexico) Senior Law Clerk, International Litigation, Carballo Law (Miami) Adviser, EU Delegation to the United Nations (New York) Extern, International Arbitration, Jenner & Block (Washington DC) Trainee, Derains & Gharavi (Paris) Contributing Editor, AfronomicsLaw (Washington DC) Assistant to the Minister Counsellor in charge of Investment and Trade negotiations (CETA, TTIP) of the Spanish Permanent Representation to the EU / Spanish MFA (Brussels)
- Firm Country:
France
- Jurisdiction:
France, United States, Spain
- Type of Practitioner:
Analyst, Counsel
- Practice Areas:
Arbitration, Energy - Natural Resources, Environment, Investment - Concession agreements, Public international Law
- Legal System:
Civil Law, Common Law, European Law, International Law, Islamic Law
- 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):
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
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Sarah Grenfell
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- Firm Country:
United Kingdom
- Type of Practitioner:
Lawyer
- Practice Areas:
Arbitration, Oil - Gas - Mining
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Sarah Ganz
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- Firm Country:
United Kingdom
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MICHELLE NELSON
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- Firm Country:
United Arab Emirates
- Practice Areas:
Arbitration, Construction - Engineering, Energy - Natural Resources, Oil - Gas - Mining
- Nationality/Nationalities:
British
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Charlotte Matthews
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Laura Jones
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Manini Brar
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- Other Relevant Experience:
Manini specialises in international commercial and investor-state arbitration. She has acted as counsel and tribunal secretary in arbitration disputes, in addition to working in an institutional capacity with the ICC Court of Arbitration, and as a consultant to the Government of India.
- Education:
B.A.LL.B., National Law University Jodhpur, India (2010); LL.M. Public International Law, University of Cambridge (2014)
- Other Information:
HKIAC Tribunal Secretary Training Programme (2018) Manini specialises in international commercial and investor-state arbitration. She has acted as counsel and tribunal secretary in arbitration disputes, in addition to working in an institutional capacity with the ICC Court of Arbitration, and as a consultant to the Government of India.
- Firm Country:
India
- Jurisdiction:
India
- Type of Practitioner:
Counsel, Lawyer
- Practice Areas:
Arbitration, Commercial Law, Construction - Engineering, Investment - Concession agreements, Public international Law
- Legal System:
Common Law, International Law
- Nationality/Nationalities:
Indian
- 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):
Hindi, Speaking Proficiency:
Native Fluency
- Language(s):
Urdu, Speaking Proficiency:
Conversational
- Language(s):
Spanish, Speaking Proficiency:
Conversational
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Kubra Berboroglu
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Priya Kumar
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- 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
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Monika Hlavkova
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Ramona Keist
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- State Contact:
Zurich
- Firm Country:
Switzerland
- Jurisdiction:
Switzerland
- Type of Practitioner:
Counsel
- Legal System:
Civil Law, International Law
- Nationality/Nationalities:
Swiss
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Dr. Anke Nestler
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- State Contact:
Frau
- Other Relevant Experience:
Damage calculation, testifying, expert reports
- Publications:
Several, see CV
- Education:
Doctor of Business Administration, Certified Licensing Professional (CLP), Certified Valuation Expert (CVA), Publicly appointed and sworn expert for the valuation of businesses and intangible assets (CCI, Frankfurt, Germany)
- Other Information:
Damage calculation, testifying, expert reports
- Firm Country:
Germany
- Jurisdiction:
Austria, Germany, Switzerland
- Type of Practitioner:
Expert
- Practice Areas:
Domain names, Intellectual Property
- Nationality/Nationalities:
German
- Select Languages:
- Language(s):
German, Speaking Proficiency:
Native Fluency
- Language(s):
English, Speaking Proficiency:
Native Fluency
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Heidi Yildiz
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- Other Relevant Experience:
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)
- Education:
LLM in International Dispute Resolution, Queen Mary University of London; Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, BBP Law School, London; LLB, City University of London
- Other Information:
Dual-qualified English Barrister and Finnish attorney specialising in international arbitration and commercial litigation. Regularly also acts as an arbitrator.
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)
- Firm Country:
United Kingdom
- Jurisdiction:
Finland, United Kingdom
- Type of Practitioner:
Arbitrator, Counsel
- Practice Areas:
Arbitration, Commercial Law, Investment - Concession agreements, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Maritime Law, Public international Law
- Legal System:
Civil Law, Common Law, European Law
- Nationality/Nationalities:
Finnish
- 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):
Finnish, 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:
Conversational, Professional Proficiency:
Understand written documents
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Ayesha Zia
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Nika Rassadina
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Abbey Doyno
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Nneka Emilia Onyema
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- 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
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Nadia Osborne
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- Firm Country:
United Kingdom
- Jurisdiction:
United Kingdom
- Type of Practitioner:
Lawyer
- Practice Areas:
Arbitration, DRB (Dispute resolution board) - DAB (Dispute adjudication board), Insolvency, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Oil - Gas - Mining, Sales - Purchases
- Legal System:
Common Law
- Nationality/Nationalities:
British
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