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Hogan Lovells Promotes Janice Cheng to Partner and Juliana De Valdenebro Garrido and Zoe Dong to Counsel
Hogan Lovells has promoted three ArbitralWomen members, effective 1 January 2024. Janice Cheng has been promoted to partner, and Juliana De Valdenebro Garrido and Zoe Dong have been promoted to counsel.
Having trained at the firm, Janice Cheng joined Hogan Lovells in 2013 after graduating from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Toronto. She qualified in 2015 and became a senior associate in 2020 and was promoted to counsel in 2023. Janice’s practice is focused on construction and engineering disputes. Last year, she took part in a competition launched by the IBA ARB40 subcommittee to find personal stories about international arbitration and was one of two winners in the “how it all started” category. Janice also leads the firm’s Women Impact Network for APAC and speaks English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.
Juliana De Valdenebro Garrido is a dually trained civil-common law lawyer, recognized as a skilled advocate who has handled numerous investment and commercial arbitrations from beginning to end, throughout the United States, Latin America, and beyond. Juliana is currently an ICC Young Arbitration & ADR Forum representative for the North America Chapter and was a founding member of the Harvard International Arbitration Law Students Association. Juliana has been recognized by Who’s Who Legal, Latinvex, Lexology, and American Lawyer Media/The Daily Business Review as a rising star in the international arbitration field.
Zoe Dong’s practice has a particular focus on international commercial arbitration disputes and complex commercial litigation with a nexus to Greater China and she has a sector focus on financial services, technology and life sciences. Zoe is qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales and Hong Kong and holds a qualification certificate as an attorney in the PRC. She studied at Peking University and the University of Hong Kong, where she graduated with distinction and obtaining six scholarships for her outstanding academic performance. She speaks English and Mandarin.
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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:
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.
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.
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).
An all-female team may be awarded the ArbitralWomen President’s Bursary if the other requirements are met.
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.
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.
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.
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.
