Friday, October 19, 2012

The University Club of New York, One West 54th Street New York, NY 10019

Co-Chairs

Mark Kantor is an independent arbitrator and mediator. He teaches courses in International business Transactions and in International Arbitration as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Kantor was formerly a partner with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in their Corporate and Project Finance Groups. His recent arbitration and mediation engagements include disputes in the energy, telecommunications, semiconductors, political risk insurance, water rights, finance and banking.

Lawrence W. Newman is Of Counsel in the New York office of Baker & McKenzie. Mr. Newman practices mainly in the area of international litigation and arbitration. He is the author and co-author of several works on international arbitration and litigation. For Cross-Exam~conceived the idea of the book upon which the conference is based. Mr. Newman received his initial courtroom experience in his five years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Office in the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, after which he joined the litigation department of the New York office of Baker & McKenzie. That department, under his direction, focused on international litigation and arbitration and became the leading law office in the world (in terms of number of cases) in the representation of claimants against Iran in arbitration at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague. Mr. Newman has represented claimants and respondents in commercial and investment arbitration proceedings in the United States, Europe and Latin America. He also sits as an arbitrator in cases involving international matters.

ABA Section of International Law 2012 Fall Meeting

Fontainebleau Resort
4441 Collins Ave
Miami Beach, FL, 33140-3227

Schedule

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Monday March 25, 2013

Grand Hotel Wien, Kaerntener Ring 9, A – 1010 Vienna, Austria

Accommodations

Rooms have been blocked for the nights of 23 March 2013 through 25 March 2013 at the Grand Hotel Wien, Kaerntener Ring 9, A – 1010 Wien at a rate of €255,00 through €315,00 per night (depending on room type) that includes all applicable taxes and fees.

Rooms have been blocked for the nights of 23 March 2013 through 25 March 2013 at The Ring, Kärntner Ring 8, A-1010 Wien at a rate of €275,00 through €315,00 per night (depending on room type) that includes all applicable taxes and fees.

The block of rooms has been reserved for the conference until 24 January 2013; after this date bedrooms will be subject to availability. All arrangements are between the registrant and the hotel.

Hotel Contact Information:
Margit Chaloupka, Banquet & Conference Manager
Grand Hotel Wien, Kaerntener Ring 9, A – 1010 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43 1 515 80 1820 Fax: +43 1 515 8014
Hotel Registration Form: Hotel Reservation Form
Email: mchaloupka@jjwhotels.com
Web: www.grandhotelwien.com

Tuesday April 23, 2013

Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington DC 20036

Overview

ICC’s annual Miami conference is a key forum for understanding international commercial arbitration in Latin America. This conference provides an indispensable update on developments in the region. The conference has become one of the most important gathering for the Latin American arbitration community. Not only does it offer a line-up of top class speakers, topical discussions and relevant news, but also an excellent opportunity to network. The conference attracts approximately 400 participants representing over 30 nationalities.

Conference Downloads

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• ICC Calendar of Events 2012

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• Conference Registration Form
• Conference Schedule

Faculty

Co-Chairs

Grant Hanessian is a Partner in Baker & McKenzie’s New York office. He is the Co-chair of the firm’s International Arbitration Practice Group and Chair of the Litigation/Dispute Resolution Department in the New York office. Mr. Hanessian represents international and domestic companies, governmental entities and individuals in disputes concerning contract, financial services, construction, commodities, insurance and intellectual property.

Sigvard Jarvin practices international commercial arbitration from Jones Day’s Paris office. He was General Counsel to the ICC International Court of Arbitration 1982-87. Admitted to the Bars of Sweden and Paris, he comments regularly on ICC cases in Journal du Droit International. He was general editor of Stockholm International Arbitration Review 1999-2007.

Speakers/ Discussion Leaders

Alexander Bělohlávek is Founder and Senior Partner of The Bělohlávek Law Offices, Prague. He is a Member of the International Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris as well as Member of the ICC Commission on International Arbitration and a Member of the National Committee of the ICC in the Czech Republic. He has acted as arbitrator or counsel in more than 170 international arbitrations and is listed as arbitrator with the international arbitral centers of several economic chambers in Central Europe. He has published numerous books and articles on arbitration and business law.

George Bermann is the Chief Reporter of the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the U.S. Law of Commercial Arbitration. He is a member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and director of the AAA and member of the AAA’s panel of ICDR arbitrators. In addition, he is the Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, Walter Gelhorn Professor of Law and Director of European Legal Studies at Columbia Law School.

Stephen R. Bond is senior of counsel in Covington & Burling LLP’s London office. He specializes in international commercial arbitration and is a member of the firm’s Arbitration Practice Group. Mr. Bond’s experience includes disputes in the energy, international joint venture, construction, technology, sales and distribution fields. Formerly, a Partner with White & Case in Paris, Mr. Bond was Secretary General of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC from 1985-1991.

Michael W. Bühler is a Partner in Jones Day’s Paris office and co-head of the firm’s International Litigation and Arbitration Practice. He focuses on international dispute resolution in complex arbitrations. He has represented major corporations and state-owned entities in more than 100 arbitrations and has acted as chairman, sole arbitrator, and party-appointed arbitrator in arbitrations worldwide. Some of the fields that Mr. Bühler conducts arbitrations in are civil construction, engineering, oil and gas projects, and distribution and license agreements in various sectors, including the chemical, pharmaceutical, food, liquor, and luxury goods industries.

William Laurence Craig is Senior Counsel in Orrick’s Paris office, and a member of the International Arbitration Group. He is a Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and was awarded a Trophee du Droit in 2005.

Robert Davidson is a full-time arbitrator and mediator., and the Executive Director of JAMS Arbitration Practice. He has sat in over 150 domestic and international arbitrations as sole arbitrator and as a member of tripartite panels in both institutional and ad hoc settings. The cases he has arbitrated have involved complex commercial and financial business issues, including contract actions, disputes under APA and SPA agreements, construction n, insurance and reinsurance claims, oil and gas disputes, securities, tax, real estate, intellectual property, employment disputes, and sports matters.

Teresa Giovannini is a founding partner of LALIVE specializing in international arbitration and litigation, as well as art law. She has acted as counsel and arbitrator in more than 130 international arbitrations, either ad hoc or administered by various institutions (AAA/ICDR, CCIG, ICC, ICHEIC, ICSID, LCIA, Chamber of Commerce of Milan, Chamber of Commerce of Venice. Her areas of specialization include disputes relating to procurement contracts, license, agency, joint venture and shareholder agreements in a wide range of sectors, in particular infrastructure projects, aviation, transfer of technology, construction of turnkey factories, pharmaceuticals, luxury goods and arts.

Wulf Gordian Hauser is a Partner in Hauser Partners’ Vienna office. The main areas of his practice are mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking and corporate finance and international commercial arbitration.

Kaj Hober is a Partner of Mannheimer Swartling in the Stockholm office, and Professor of East European Commercial Law at Uppsala University, Uppsala. He is Co-Chair of the IBA sub-committee on Investment Treaty Arbitration.

Michael Hwang SC practices as a Barrister and Arbitrator with his main focus in international arbitration. He serves as a Court member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and a Trustee of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC). In 2010 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts. He is currently on the Advisory Boards of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (ISAC) and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). He is the former Chairman of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Asialaw Leading Lawyer’s 2010 described Mr. Hwang as one of the most highly acclaimed legal experts in the Asia Pacific region following an extensive survey of senior corporate executives, in-house counsel and private practice lawyers.

Pierre Karrer serves as an Independent Arbitrator. He is a former Partner with Pestalozzi Lachenal Patry, Zurich and Geneva (1976 to 2004) and has served as a Lecturer at the University of Zurich since 1980. Mr Karrer has served as Arbitrator in over 250 international commercial arbitrations. He is Hon. President of the ASA (Swiss Arbitration Association); a Vice President of the Stockholm Arbitration Institute; a former Vice President of the LCIA; a former Court Member of the ICC; former Chairman of the Arbitration Commission of Swiss National Committee of the ICC and a Member, Comité Français de l’Arbitrage.

Vladimir V. Khvalei is a Partner, Baker & McKenzie, Moscow office and is the Head of the firm’s CIS Dispute Resolution Practice Group. Mr. Khvalei is a Vice President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. Mr. Khvalei has wide experience participating in international arbitration cases under the arbitration rules of ICAC, UNCITRAL, ICC, SCC and other arbitration institutions, both as a party counsel and an arbitrator

Sophie Nappert is a dual-qualified lawyer in the UK and Canada. She is an arbitrator in independent practice based in London. She is ranked in Global Arbitration Review’s Top 30 List of Female Arbitrators Worldwide. Her areas of expertise include energy and natural resources, construction, investment treaty disputes and disputes against State parties. Ms. Nappert is a member of the UNCITRAL Working Group on International Commercial Arbitration and Conciliation.

Lawrence W. Newman is Of Counsel in the New York office of Baker & McKenzie. Mr. Newman practices mainly in the area of international litigation and arbitration. He is the author and co-author of several works on international arbitration and litigation. For Cross-Exam~conceived the idea of the book upon which the conference is based. Mr. Newman received his initial courtroom experience in his five years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Office in the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, after which he joined the litigation department of the New York office of Baker & McKenzie. That department, under his direction, focused on international litigation and arbitration and became the leading law office in the world (in terms of number of cases) in the representation of claimants against Iran in arbitration at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague. Mr. Newman has represented claimants and respondents in commercial and investment arbitration proceedings in the United States, Europe and Latin America. He also sits as an arbitrator in cases involving international matters.

Christopher Newmark is a Founder of Spenser Underhill Newmark and specializes in commercial dispute resolution. He regularly represents clients in large international commercial disputes, usually arising out of cross-border contracts. Mr. Newmark has received LCIA, ICC Sports Resolutions UK and CEDR appointments as arbitrator, sitting as chairman, party appointed and sole arbitrator. Prior to forming Spenser Underhill Newmark LLP, he was a partner in the Dispute Resolution Department of Baker & McKenzie, London, where he was the Chair of the firm’s European Dispute Resolution Group.

Alexander Petsche is a Partner with Baker & McKenzie/ Diwok Hermann Petsche Rechtsanwälte GmbH in Vienna. He is active in the firm’s litigation and arbitration practice group and is a Lecturer at the University of Economics in Vienna and at the Danube University in Krems.

Philippe Pinsolle is a Partner in Shearman & Sterling’s International Arbitration Group. He has acted as Counsel in more than 120 international arbitrations, with a particular focus on investor-State arbitrations and commercial disputes involving industries such as oil and gas, energy, construction and defense. Mr. Pinsolle regularly acts as chairman, sole arbitrator and party appointed arbitrator and as expert under the aegis of the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, AAA, the Stockholm chamber of Commerce, the Geneva Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the French Arbitration Association.

Nikolaus Pitkowitz is Founding Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution of Graf & Pitkowitz, Attorneys at Law in Vienna. He is a Board Member of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), experienced party counsel, member of several arbitral panels (including VIAC, CEE/SEE, HKIAC, SIAC), a certified mediator and co-editor of the Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration.

Michael Polkinghorne is a Partner in White & Case’s Paris office and heads the office’s arbitration group. He has a broad range of experience in arbitration and litigation in the areas of energy, telecommunications, project finance, construction, infrastructure and defense procurement. Mr. Polkinghorne has served as counsel and arbitrator in arbitrations conducted under most major institutional rules and is the Australian member of the International court of Arbitration of the ICC, where he is a member of the ICC taskforce on arbitrations involving state entities. He has covered disputes arising in many different countries and has significant expertise in the area of foreign direct investment and acting for and against states.

Hilmar Raeschke-Kessler is a member of the exclusive bar of the German Federal Court – Bundesgerichtshof. He has acted as chairman or arbitrator in numerous international arbitrations. He also represents clients before the Bundesgerichtshof in cases related to the enforcement or setting aside of arbitral awards. He is a member of the ICC-Commission on International Arbitration, Vice President of the German branch of the International Law Association and Board Member of the German Arbitration – DIS. He has been a member of the IBA-Working Groups on the IBA Rules of Evidence and on the IBA Guidelines on Conflicts in International Arbitration. He is honorary professor at the Law School of the University of Cologne.

Catherine Rogers is a scholar of international arbitration and professional ethics. Professor Rogers is an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law (Third) of International Commercial Arbitration. She has served as a member of the American Society of International Law Task Force on global legal Ethics, as an expert consultant to ARIAS-US, as a member of theCPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, and as a member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. Before entering academia, Professor Rogers practiced international litigation and arbitration in New York, Hong Kong and San Francisco.

Klaus Reichert is a barrister in practice at the Dublin and London Bars (the latter through Brick Court Chambers. His work is principally concentrated on dispute resolution in the international field as arbitrator, counsel and mediator. Mr. Reichert has had in excess of 30 arbitral appointments. These have been under most of the major rules (ICC, LCIA, ICDR, UNCITRAL, DIFC-LCIA) as chair, party appointee or sole arbitrator. He has a specialized litigation practice in Dublin and London dealing principally with commercial disputes with an international focus, arbitration matters and construction. Mr. Reichert is one of the invited members of the Expert Group formed by the Hague Conference on Private International Law for its current project on principles of choice of law in international contracts.

Klaus Sachs is a Partner in CMS Hasche Sigle. He specializes in national and international arbitration and has more than 25 years of experience in proceedings as counsel or arbitrator (Chairman, Co-Arbitrator, Sole Arbitrator) in more than 150 arbitral proceedings under various rules, including DIS, ICC, LCIA, Vienna Rules, Moscow Chamber of Commerce, SCC Rules, JCAA, and ad hoc (including UNCITRAL Rules), regarding disputes in particular related to corporate law, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, lilcense agreements, cooperation agreements; construction of industrial plants and infrastructure projects, oil and gas. He has experience as Chairman in investment treaty disputes in 4 cases (ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules). He is the Vice President of the International Court of Arbitration (ICC).

Franz T. Schwarz is a Partner in Wilmer Hale’s Litigation/Controvery Department, and a vice chair of the International arbitration Practice Group. Mr. Schwarz’s practice focuses on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes. He has extensive experience with arbitral practice, procedure and advocacy both in civil and common law systems. Mr. Schwarz has represented clients in numerous ad-hoc arbitrations and before all major arbitral institutions (including ICC, LCIA, Vienna and Stockholm), at multiple seats and governed by a broad variety of substantive and procedural laws. He has a particular focus on joint venture, mergers and acquisitions, financial services, project finance, as well as commercial and corporate disputes.

Schedule

8:30 – 9:00 Registration
Coffee and tea upon arrival

9:00 – 10:30 Working Session 1
Effective Presentation of Evidence – Including Witness Statements and Cross-Examination

Sophie Nappert-Discussion Leader;  Vladimir Khvalei, W. Laurence Craig, Wulf Hauser, Michael Polkinghorne, Kaj Hober

• Different presentation styles in various legal systems: emphasis or oral or written evidence; is there a predominating style of taking evidence in international arbitration, i.e., have we arrived at a Lex naturalis arbitri void of cultural differences?
• Are Powerpoints good advocacy?
• Presentation of evidence by videoconference. Is this the future?
• Is it always necessary to have an oral hearing?
• Who controls the length of a hearing? Should arbitrators impose their views or defer to the parties?
• Are there too many witnesses, too many documents – is advocacy lost among the detail?
• Are post-hearing briefs disappearing from the scene? Their strengths and weaknesses.
• Should there be page limits to written submissions

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break

11:00 – 12:30 Working Session 2
Ethics and Behavior

Catherine Rodgers-Discussion Leader;  Michael Buehler, Robert Davidson, Franz Schwarz, Klaus Reichert, Alexander Belohlavek

• Applicable ethical codes, for arbitrator and attorneys
• Independence and impartiality of arbitrators; standards of impartiality
• Arbitrators’ duty to disclose
• Arbitrators’ duty to investigate whether there are conflicts
• Preparation of witnesses; where goes the borderline to abuse?
• Do attorneys’ request for discovery have ulterior motives, e.g. to get access to business secrets, marketing methods, know-how or other information useful to his client but not necessary for the case?
• Remedies
• Ethical issues versus cultural differences, have we arrived at a global standard

12:30 – 14:00 Networking Luncheon

14:00 – 15:30 Working Session 3
Expert Witness

Lawrence W. Newman-Discussion Leader;  Alexander Petsche, Klaus Sachs, Nikolas Pitkowitz, Phillipe Pinsolle, Christopher Newmark

• Is it efficient for a tribunal to appoint experts? When should the tribunal appoint an expert?
• The parties’ role in the tribunal’s appointment of an expert
• What access should the parties have to the tribunal expert while he or she formulates his or her report
• Should the tribunal-appointed expert always appear at a hearing and be subjected to questions about his or her conclusions
• What makes an effective party-appointed expert?
• Are there certain common characteristics of ineffective experts?
• Is witness conferencing effective? Are there particular circumstances when it is most appropriate? Inappropriate?

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee / Tea Break

16:00 – 17:30 Working Session 4
Effective and Efficient Management of Proceedings

Stephen Bond-Discussion Leader;  Teresa Giovannini, Michael Hwang, Hilmar Raeschke-Kessler, George Bermann, Pierre Karrer

• Whose arbitration is it anyway: the extent of control the parties can expect to have over the way in which arbitrations are conducted; is it ever appropriate for arbitrators to impose their views regarding extent of discovery and time allowed for cross-examination?
• Disconnects between the approaches parties and their lawyers may assume will be taken to the management of proceedings, whether arising from cultural differences or from idiosyncratic approaches taken by some arbitrators
• Expectations and realities as to time and cost; best practices for reducing time and costs
• How do arbitrators encourage parties to comply with the procedural directions? Using costs as a weapon?
• When a witness testifies in his own language but clearly is comfortable in the language of the arbitration – should the tribunal direct the witness to use that language in order to speed up the proceedings and avoid unfair advantages?
• When the arbitrators are too busy; has the new order introduced by the ICC, that arbitrators must indicate availability before accepting an appointment, achieved its purpose of speeding up the arbitrations?
• When is it justified to reopen the proceedings after they have been closed?

17:30 – 19:00 Drinks Reception

Continuing Legal Education Credit

Earn 7 hours NYS CLE credit hours (transitional and non-transitional) in the Areas of Professional Practice. (see our website www.jurisconferences.com for full information)

This course has been approved by the Supreme Court of Ohio Commission on Continuing Legal Education for 6.00 total CLE hour(s) instruction.

Accommodations

Grand Hotel Wien

Rooms have been blocked for the nights of 31 March 2012 through 3 April 2012 at the Grand Hotel Wien, Kaerntener Ring 9, A – 1010 Wien at a rate of €255,00 through €315,00 per night (depending on room type) that includes all applicable taxes and fees.

Rooms have been blocked for the nights of 1 April 2012 through 2 April 2012 at The Ring, Kärntner Ring 8, A-1010 Wien at a rate of €275,00 through €315,00 per night (depending on room type) that includes all applicable taxes and fees.

Reservations must be received by 31 January 2012 to receive the preferred conference rate. After 31 January 2012 rooms can be booked at conference rates based upon hotel availability. All arrangements are between the registrant and the hotel.

Hotel Contact Information:
Margit Chaloupka, Banquet & Conference Manager
Grand Hotel Wien, Kaerntener Ring 9, A – 1010 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43 1 515 80 1820 Fax: +43 1 515 1314
Hotel Registration Form: Hotel Reservation Form
Email: mchaloupka@jjwhotels.com
Web: www.grandhotelwien.com

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Program

NAFTA, CAFTA and Beyond? Investment Protection in the Americas.

The 2012 Washington, DC Juris Conference is dedicated to the question of investment protection in the Americas. Inspired by CAFTA, it will engage the ongoing debate whether there is a need for mechanisms for early disposition of investor-state disputes. It will revisit whether recent NAFTA and ICSID arbitral decisions have created a clear divide between trade, commercial and investment disputes. Panelists will debate whether the authoritative interpretation of treatment standards in the context of NAFTA could be a tool to be emulated more broadly in investment protection agreements. After discussing these key features of the nearly two decades of multilateral free trade agreements in the Americas, the conference will ask: what next and set the stage for what investment law practitioners can expect in the next decade.

This conference continues our tradition of focusing on four topical and pressing issues – by establishing a dialogue between some of the brightest new stars in the field and some of its most seasoned practitioners. Eight up-and-comers are preparing papers on four of the most controversial and important issues in international investment law today. On the 27 March 2012, our young authors will pair up to defend their positions before a panel of arbitrators, arbitration specialists and experts in international investment law. The discussion and debate that will follow is sure to be of tremendous value to the international business lawyer, litigation specialist or trade and investment law policy expert.

Co-Chairs

Todd Weiler is an investment treaty counsel and arbitrator and noted expert on NAFTA Chapter 11. He is the co-founder of Investmentclaims.com and the publisher of NAFTAClaims.com.

Ian A. Laird is Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Crowell & Moring. His practice is focused in the field of international investment law and arbitration. He is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Investmentclaims.com.

Frédéric G. Sourgens practices international arbitration in Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy’s Washington, D.C. office. He has worked as counsel in ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC and LCIA arbitrations where he represents both states and investors in international investment disputes. He is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and publishes regularly on questions of public international law, international investment law and international arbitration.

Borzu Sabahi is an Associate in the International Arbitration group of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle’s Washington, D.C. office. Dr. Sabahi’s experience includes serving as counsel and expert in cases brought under a number of bilateral investment treaties, NAFTA Chapter 11, and DR-CAFTA Chapter 10 and under the rules of UNCITRAL, ICC, ICDR and the LCIA. He is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center where he co-teaches a seminar on investor-state dispute resolution.

Faculty

Alexander Bělohlávek is Founder and Senior Partner of The Bělohlávek Law Offices in Prague. He is a Member of the International Court of Arbitration at the ICC in Paris as well as a Member of the ICC Commission on International Arbitration and a Member of the National Committee of the ICC in the Czech Republic. He has acted as arbitrator or counsel in more than 170 international arbitrations and is listed as arbitrator with the international arbitral centers of several economic chambers in Central Europe. He has published numerous books and articles on arbitration and business law.

Andrea Bjorklund is a Professor at the University of California (Davis) School of Law.  Since January 2012 she is a Visiting Professor at McGill University School of Law which has been funded through the L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Commercial Law and Arbitration. She is an expert in international arbitration and litigation as well as international trade and international investment.

Devin Bray is completing a shared Clerkship position with Dr. Todd Weiler and Robert Weiler in the areas of international arbitration law and Canadian criminal law. He is also a Legal Research Associate with Juris Publishing.

Heather Bray holds a Clerkship Placement with Dr. Todd Weiler in the area of international arbitration law, with specific emphasis on international investment law, and Robert Weiler in the area of Canadian criminal law. She is also a Legal Research Associate with Juris Publishing.

Hon. Charles N. Brower is an arbitrator and member of 20 Essex Street Chambers. His long career in the law has combined extensive practice at the bar with distinguished public service, both national and international, concentrating in the fields of public international law and international dispute resolution. He was a co-founder of White & Case’s Washington, DC office where his practice came to be comprised almost exclusively of substantial international arbitrations. Since 1983 he has served continuously as a Judge of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague. Judge Brower has served as a member of the Panels of Conciliators and Arbitrators of the ICSID. As counsel or arbitrator he has handled cases on all six continents, principally under the rules of the ICC, UNCITRAL, the LCIA, the AAA, the UNCC, ICSID, SCC, ARIAS and LMAA. These cases have involved a wide variety of commercial disputes as well as issues of public international law, including ones arising under both bilateral and multilateral investment treaties (such as NAFTA and the Energy Charter Treaty).

Hugh Carlson is an associate at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy’s Washington, D.C. He practices in the area of international arbitration and litigation. He was previously a member of the international arbitration practice group in the London office of K & L Gates. He has represented clients in ICSID arbitration, and has also assisted clients in international commercial arbitration before the ICC.

Marinn Carlson is a Partner in Sidley Austin’s Washington, D.C. office. She focuses her practice in international dispute settle, with an emphasis on trade policy and investment disputes, including investor-state arbitration and WTO disputes. Ms. Carlson has represented foreign investors as well as respondent governments in ICSID arbitration under investment treaties and trade agreements, including NAFTA. She counsels clients in sectors ranging from financial services to infrastructure development on the implications of international trade and investment rules for their global operations.

Philippe Charest-Beaudry is a lawyer with Fasken Martineau in Montreal. He practices primarily in the areas of commercial litigation, international dispute resolution and arbitration, alternative dispute resolution, securities litigation and class actions.

Mark A. Clodfelter is a Partner in Foley Hoag’s Washington, D.C. office. He has more than twenty-five years of private and public practice experience involving investor-State, State-to-State and commercial disputes before numerous international arbitration fora. Mr. Clodfelter served for seven years as the U.S. State Department’s Assistant Legal Adviser for International Claims and Investment disputes and, as a member of the Senior Executive Service, led a large staff of attorneys in the representation of the United States in international arbitration proceedings, including investor claims under Chapter 11 of NAFTA, in which he had an unblemished record of success.

John Crook teaches international arbitration at George Washington University Law School. He is a frequent consultant to counsel in ICSID and other international proceedings, has served as an arbitrator under NAFTA, and was a Commissioner on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission. Mr. Crook served for nearly three decades in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser. He was the second United States Agent at the Iran-US Claims Tribunal in The Hague and was involved in creating the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva.

Claudia Frutos-Peterson is a senior consultant at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle with their International Arbitration group. She was formerly counsel at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). At ICSID, she served as Secretary of Tribunals in numerous arbitral proceedings brought under the ICSID Convention and the ICSID Additional Facility Mechanism.

Alvaro Galindo serves as International Counsel with Dechert in Washington, D.C. He advises on complex international arbitration matters, particularly those involving South American jurisdictions. Mr. Galindo’s practice focuses on the representation of sovereign states. Prior to joining Dechert, her served as the Director of the International Affairs and Arbitration Unit for the Republic of Ecuador’s Attorney General Office.

Alex de Gramont is a litigation Partner and a member of Weil, Gotshal & Manges international arbitration practice in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He has represented clients in a wide variety of international arbitration matters. In addition to commercial arbitration expertise, he has extensive experience in handling investor-state arbitration cases arising from bilateral investment treaties (BITs), multilateral investment treaties (including NAFTA, CAFTA-DR, and the Energy Charter Treaty), and other international investment laws.

David Gantz is a Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, Rogers College of Law and the Director of the school’s International Trade Law Program. Among the courses he teaches are international trade law and NAFTA and Other Trade Agreements.

Matthew Hodgson is an associate in the international arbitration group at Allen & Overy in their Prague office where he is responsible for their arbitration practice in the CEE region. He has acted both for States and investors in investment treaty arbitrations and has also advised States on the negotiation and drafting of investment treaties.

Justin M. Jacinto is a member of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle’s International Arbitration Group. His practice focuses on investment treaty arbitration, international commercial arbitration, and public international law disputes. Mr. Jacinto also has experience with project finance and development matters. His experience includes disputes under numerous bilateral investment treaties as well as the Energy Charter Treaty, and across a wide range of sectors, including financial services, oil and gas, mining, electricity and transport.

Mark Kantor is an independent arbitrator and mediator. He teaches courses in International business Transactions and in International Arbitration as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Kantor was formerly a partner with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in their Corporate and Project Finance Groups. His recent arbitration and mediation engagements include disputes in the energy, telecommunications, semiconductors, political risk insurance, water rights, finance and banking.

Andrea J. Menaker is a Partner in White & Case’s Washington, D.C. office. She serves as counsel in complex international arbitration cases involving contentious political issues. Ms. Menaker has extensive experience in matters involving treaty-based claims, international investment protections, public international law, sovereign immunity, and the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. Prior to joining White & Case, Ms. Menaker was Chief of the NAFTA Arbitration division for the U.S. State Department where she represented the United States in investor-State arbitrations under the investment chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Andrew D. Mitchell is a Professor at Melbourne Law School at The University of Melbourne. In 2007 following a nomination by the Australian government, the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body added him to the Indicative List of Governmental and Non-Government Panelists to hear WTO disputes. Professor Mitchell acts as a consultant to the private sector and governmental and non-governmental organizations. He has previously been affiliated with the IMF, the OECD, Davis Polk & Wardwell and Allens Arthur Robinson.

Mark H. O’Donoghue is a Partner in Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle’s New York office. He concentrates on corporate projects in Latin America, particularly in the oil and gas, energy and chemicals sectors. Mr. O’Donoghue has experience in project finance and energy infrastructure projects, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, privatizations, cross-border commercial contracts, and international litigation. He has worked on cross-border investment projects and international disputes.

Hugo Perezcano (Luncheon Speaker) is an attorney and professor of law who specializes in international arbitration, international trade regulation and international law. He worked for the Mexican Ministry of Economy for nearly 20 years. Mr. Perezcano headed Mexico’s Trade Remedy Authority from January 2007 through October 2011.He was General counsel for International Trade Negotiations and lead a team of lawyers responsible for providing legal advice to the government on international trade negotiations and foreign trade and investment matters. Mr. Perezcano was lead counsel for Mexico in State-State dispute settlement proceedings initiated under the WTO and NAFTA, as well as in disputes brought by investors under the NAFTA and bilateral investment agreements.

Joseph Profaizer is a Partner at Paul Hastings’ Washington, D.C. office. He maintains a litigation and arbitration practice that focuses on complex international disputes. Mr. Profaizer represents public and private corporations as well as foreign sovereigns and their instrumentalities in a wide range of complex multi-jurisdictional disputes, including insurance, investment, commercial, construction, energy, employment, e-commerce, pharmaceutical, securities, and technology disputes. He has successfully represented clients in more than 50 arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, the AAA/ICDR, the LCIA, JAMS and UNCITRAL.

Jose Antonio Rivas is a foreign attorney at Arnold and Porter in their Washington, D.C. office. He concentrates his practice in international investment arbitration. Mr. Rivas is the former Foreign Investment Director of the Ministry of Trade of Colombia where he conducted a program to strengthen the State’s readiness in case of investor-State arbitration and headed the drafting and updating of the Colombian International Investment Agreement (IIA) Model. Based on this Model, he successfully concluded more than twelve IIA negotiations with States from Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia which included bilateral investment treaties and investment chapters of free trade agreements (FTAs).

Ashley R. Riveira is an associate in Crowell & Moring’s International Dispute Resolution Group and focuses her practice on international arbitration and litigation.

Anthea Roberts is a Lecturer at the London School of Economics. For the academic year 2011-2012 she is a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her field of expertise is public international law with a particular focus on international dispute resolution, investment treaty law, international law before national courts and the sources of international law.

Christopher M. Ryan is a Partner in the International Arbitration Group at Shearman & Sterling. He is based in their Washington, D.C. office and has extensive experience in international arbitration and litigation, and has represented private and governmental clients before international arbitral institutions., NAFTA Chapter 19 dispute resolution panels, the WTO Dispute Settlement Body, and U.S. federal courts.

Marco E. Schnabl is a Partner in the international arbitration and litigation groups of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, based in the New York City office. He has appeared for claimants and respondents in proc eedings before the leading international arbitral institutions including several involving investment treaty arbitrations.

Stephen M. Schwebel is a former judge and was the president of the International Court of Justice from 1981 until 2000. He currently is chairman of the seven-member Court of Arbitration between Pakistan and India constituted to adjudge their dispute over Indus Waters. Judge Schwebel is a member of ICSID’s panels of arbitrators, of the ICDR’s neutrals panel, and of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He serves as president of the World Bank’s administrative tribunal, and was president of the administrative tribunal of the International Monetary Fund from 1993 until 2010.

Natalí Sequeira is counsel at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). She has handled more than twenty arbitration and annulment proceedings, including the first ICSID case registered under the US-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Before joining ICSID she was part of the international arbitration team of White & Case in Washington, D.C.. She has also worked for KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young in the Latin American region.

Matthew D. Slater is a Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Mr. Slater’s practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation involving sovereigns. He is a member of the ICC Task Force on Arbitration Involving States or State Entities, and participates in the ALI Project on The U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration.

Don Wallace, Jr.is the Chairman of the International Law Institute and Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is also counsel at the firm of Winston & Strawn.

Schedule

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Program

This conference brings together some of the world’s leading experts in Chinese-foreign disputes resolution and looks at how different kinds of business disputes are dealt with in China today. The conference adopts a practical approach, focusing on a realistic “case study” of a Chinese-foreign party joint venture.

Co-Chairs

Michael Moser is a Chartered Arbitrator and a member of 20 Essex Street Chambers. He is Chairman of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), a Member of the LCIA Court, a Board Member of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and Vice President of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group. He is Co-chair of the China International Arbitration Club.

Yu Jianlong is the Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. He served as the director general of the Economic Information Department of the China Counsel for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) from 2004 to 2006.

Faculty

Lijun Cao is a Partner in Zhong Lung Law Firm in Beijing. Before joining Zhong Lung Mr. Cao was the Deputy Director of CIETAC’s Foreign-Related Department and a member of their Award Scrutiny Team and Case Compilation Committee. Mr. Cao has handled more than three hundred cases as administrator and more than sixty cases as presiding arbitrator, sole arbitrator or party-appointed arbitrator. The cases he handled on international trade, joint venture, stock transfer, construction, real estate, finance and banking and intellectual property were conducted under the CIETAC Rules, the ICC Rules and the UNCITRAL Rules .

John Choong is a Senior Associate with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s dispute resolution group in Hong Kong. He practices in all areas of dispute resolution, specializing in china-related and cross-border disputes, especially arbitration. Mr. Choong is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Hong Kong and Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, and a founding member of the HK45 arbitration group. He has been listed as a leading individual for dispute resolution in Chambers Global.

Justin D’Agostino is a Partner in the Hong Kong office of Herbert Smith. He specializes in international commercial arbitration and public international law. He is the head of Herbert Smith’s Greater China international arbitration practice and divides his time between Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. Mr. D’Agostino has experience in arbitrations under the auspices of institutional rules, such as CIETAC, ICC, SIAC, LCIA and ICSID, and ad hoc under the UNCITRAL rules, as well as under the HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules.

Nils Eliasson is a Partner at Mannheimer Swartling specializing in international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration. Based in Hong Kong, Mr. Eliasson is responsible for Mannheimer Swartling’s Asian dispute resolution practice. Mr. Eliasson has acted as counsel in arbitrations under most major arbitration rules (including ICC, SCC, HKIAC, SIAC, LCIA, DIS and UNCITRAL) as well as in a large number of arbitrations under BITs, the ICSID Convention and the Energy Charter Treaty.

Jessica (Jia) Fei is a Partner in Herbert Smith’s arbitration and disputes practice group and is based in the firm’s China offices. She practice is focused on international arbitration, litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Ms. Fei represents and assists Chinese, U.S. European, Singaporean and other clients in international arbitration (including ICC, CIETAC, HKIAC, ICDR, SCC, BAC and SIAC) and litigation matters in and outside China. She handles disputes relating to energy, construction, trade, international investment, manufacturing, distribution, intellectual property and employment matters.

Cameron Hassall is a Partner in the Hong Kong office of Clifford chance. He specializes in international arbitration and commercial litigation, particularly in cross-border investment disputes from and into Asia in the energy and infrastructure, private equity and banking and financial institution sectors. Mr. Hassall is the head of Clifford Chances’ Hong Kong and China arbitration practice.

Brenda D. Horrigan is a Partner and Co-Head of the International Arbitration practice of Salans’ paris and Shanghai offices. She concentrates on international arbitration with a particular focus on disputes involving emerging markets. She has been actively involved in dozens of complex international arbitration matters at both the arbitration and enforcement stages, particularly in connection with disputes arising in connection with investments in countries of the Former Soviet Union, Central/Eastern Europe and Asia. She has acted as counsel in arbitrations conducted under various arbitration rules, including those of the ICC, SCC, CIETAC, ICAC, ICSID and UNCITRAL, as well as arbitrator under the ICC rules.

Jing Liu joined the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) on 1 February 2008, acting as the Deputy Secretary-General in charge of Mainland affairs. Mr. Liu graduated from Nanjing University and UC Berkeley and practiced for several years with the China and International Arbitration Group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Hong Kong). Mr. Liu is on the Panel of Arbitrators of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC).

Danny McFadden is a Center for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) Director. He is dually qualified as a lawyer both in Australia and the UK. Based in London he mediates regularly in the commercial and property sectors with a particular expertise in cross-cultural and multinational disputes. In 2008, taking temporary leave of absence from CEDR, he joined the United Nations Ombudsman’s Office in New York as an expert adviser on the establishment of a new Mediation Division. In 2009 he served as the Interim UN Director of Mediation in New York.

Susan Munro is a Partner and member of the International Department of Steptoe & Johnson in the firm’s Beijing office. She is active in Hong Kong and China related arbitrations and has represented clients in disputes before various international arbitration commissions. Ms. Munro regularly advised clients involved in cross-border litigation involving Hong Kong, China, the UK and other jurisdictions.

Helen H. Shi is a Partner in Fangda Partners. She focuses her practice on dispute resolution and specializes in international arbitration and litigation. Ms. Shi has dealt with more than 100 cases concerning disputes arising from joint venture contracts, equity acquisition, international trade, technique transfer, loan and guarantee transactions, as well as construction disputes. She has represented clients before CIETAC, ICC and HKIAC and currently serves as an arbitrator of CIETAC and as a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Meg Utterback is an attorney with King & Wood. Her practice focuses on dispute resolution, construction and foreign direct investment. She has represented US, European and Chinese companies at the International Chamber of Commerce, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, the Indian Council of Arbitration and in litigation before US courts in construction and commercial disputes. Ms. Utterback also represents foreign companies in constructing their China facilities from bid to dispute resolution.

Isabelle I H Wan is the Leader of TransAsia’s Employment law practice. Dr. Wan enjoys a pre-eminent reputation for her expertise in PRC employment law. Her practice covers among many areas employment contracts, non-competition and confidentiality agreements, expatriate employment and labor dispute resolution (mediation, arbitration and litigation). Among her other areas of expertise are e-commerce, and intellectual property issues and has advised clients on IP dispute resolution (mediation, arbitration and litigation).

George Zhao Wang is a Partner in Jun He Law Offices’ Shanghai office. He specializes in general corporate practice, dispute resolution and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Wang has experience in a broad variety of disputes involving litigation and arbitration. He has represented many domestic and international clients in merger and acquisition transactions.

Anne Marie Whitesell is Of Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Dechert LLP. Before joining Dechert, Ms. Whitesell was Secretary General of the International Court of Arbitration (ICC) from 2001 to 2007. She supervised approximately 1100 international arbitration cases each year involving parties from more than 120 countries. Ms. Whitesell also worked closely with the 126 members of the ICC who hail from 88 different countries, and contributed to the institution’s profile and reputation around the world.

Ing Loong Yang is a Partner in Sidley Austin’s Singapore office. Mr. Yang’s practice focuses on arbitration and litigation in Asia, particularly on disputes concerning the People’s Republic of China. He is a qualified arbitrator and accredited mediator and has extensive experience acting for corporate clients in international arbitrations, complex commercial litigation, shareholders’ disputes, joint venture and technology licensing disputes, FCPA investigation and compliance and regulatory issues. Prior to joining Sidley Austin, Mr. Yang was the Chief Representative and the Head of Dispute Resolution of the Beijing Office of a premier U.S. law firm where he focused on China-related international arbitration.

Friven Yeoh is a partner in O’Melveny & Myers Hong Kong office, a Registered Foreign Lawyer in O’Melveny’s Singapore office and a member of the International Practice Group. Mr. yeoh’s practice involves both adversarial and transaction work. In his adversarial practice, Mr. Yeoh has experience in resolution of Chinese-foreign business disputes and has represented clients in international arbitration conducted under various institutional and ad hoc arbitration rules including those of the ICC, HKIAC, CIETAC, SIAC, SCC and UNCITRAL.

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Program

This conference will bring together a group of some of the best known and experienced practitioners in the field of international arbitration, both advocates and arbitrators, to discuss, and then demonstrate, how to cross-examine witnesses in an international arbitration. The program will make it clear that not all international arbitrations are the same.

Guidelines, tactics, techniques, ideas and advice to be followed or at least considered in conducting Cross-Examination will be Discussed, Analyzed and Demonstrated, such as:

• Fundamentals of Cross-Examination
• Cross-examination before International Tribunals
• An International Arbitrator’s View of the Effectiveness of Cross-Examination
• Cross-Examination under Tight Time Limits
• Cross-Examination before Civil Law Arbitrators
• Preparing for Cross-Examination without Discovery
• Witness Preparation and the Conduct of International Arbitrations
• Written Witness Statements and Live Witnesses – When Paper comes to Life
• When Civil Law and Common Law Procedure Meet
• Learn How to Influence and Persuade Arbitrators – What Works, What Doesn’t
• Leading Arbitrators from Civil Law Jurisdictions Offer Insight and Commentary on Cross Examination Techniques
• And More!

For the newer entrant to international arbitration, the conference will be a source of learning, for the experienced, it will server as a refresher of advocacy skills.  Anyone who attends this conference will benefit in better understanding and appreciating the nuances and process of successful Cross Examination in International Arbitration.  It will serve to make everyone attending a more effective cross-examiner, regardless of prior experience.

Schedule

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Introduction: Lawrence W. Newman

9:15 – 9:45 Basic principles of cross-examination: Ben Sheppard

9:45 – 10:15 Cross-examination before international tribunals: Mark Beckett

10:15 – 10:45 Effective cross-examination from the viewpoint of the International arbitrator: George Bermann

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 – 12:45 -Panel Discussion of cross-examination issues in international arbitration: led by Lawrence W. Newman and Ben Sheppard; Panel members: Mark Beckett, George Bermann, Dominique Brown-Berset, Teresa Giovannini, Alexander Belohlavek, Howard Zelbo and Robert Wisner

12:45 – 2:00 Luncheon

2:00 – 2:15 Introduction of scenario and of Tribunal (Alexander Belohlavek, Dominique Brown-Berset and Teresa Giovannini) and direct examination of Sandra Monteiro (played by Helena Erickson): Lawrence W. Newman and Ben Sheppard

2:15 – 3:00 Cross-examination of Sandra Monteiro: Klaus Reichert

3:00 – 3:15 Coffee/Tea Break

3:15 – 4:00 Direct examination (by Ben Sheppard) and cross-examination of Owen Grandquest (played by Peter Phillips): Laurence Shore

4:00 -5:00 Comments and observations by the Tribunal, the members of the Panel, the cross-examiners, the witnesses and members of the audience

5:00 – 6:00 Cocktail reception

Co-Chairs

Lawrence W. Newman conceived the idea of the book upon which the conference is based. Mr. Newman received his initial courtroom experience in his five years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Office in the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, after which he joined the litigation department of the New York office of Baker & McKenzie. That department, under his direction, focused on international litigation and arbitration and became the leading law office in the world (in terms of number of cases) in the representation of claimants against Iran in arbitration at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague. Mr. Newman has represented claimants and respondents in commercial and investment arbitration proceedings in the United States, Europe and Latin America. He also sits as an arbitrator in cases involving international matters.

Ben H. Sheppard, Jr. is a Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the A.A. White Dispute Resolution Center at the University of Houston Law Center. From 1969 through 2005 he practiced at Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. where he was a Partner and Co-Chair of the firm’s international dispute resolution practice. His practice focused on litigation and arbitration, both as counsel and as arbitrator. He has served in international and domestic arbitrations as sole arbitrator, tribunal chair, party-appointed arbitrator and on tripartite tribunals selected from institutional rosters. He was chair of AAA/ICDR task force that promulgated the 2006 amendment to the ICDR International Arbitration Rules establishing a pre-arbitral emergency arbitrator procedure. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the London Court of International Arbitration.

Faculty

Mark Beckett is Co-Chair of the Latham & Watkins’ International Litigation and Arbitration practice and has broad experience in the resolution of complex international disputes through arbitration, litigation, mediation and negotiation. He has significant experience in project construction disputes, disputes arising under long-term purchase agreements, complex commercial, acquisition and joint venture disputes, and disputes involving demand guarantees, corporate guarantees and state undertakings. Mr. Beckett is also experienced in disputes involving the expropriation of assets by sovereigns giving rise to state responsibility under international law and has represented clients claiming coverage under political risk insurance policies issued by government entities and private underwriters. He also advises clients on issues of contract drafting, interpretation and enforcement.

Alexander J. Bělohlávek is Founder and Senior Partner of The Bělohlávek Law Offices, Prague. He is a Member of the International Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris as well as Member of the ICC Commission on International Arbitration and a Member of the National Committee of the ICC in the Czech Republic. He has acted as arbitrator or counsel in more than 170 international arbitrations and is listed as arbitrator with the international arbitral centers of several economic chambers in Central Europe. He has published numerous books and articles on arbitration and business law.

George Bermann is the Chief Reporter of the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the U.S. Law of Commercial Arbitration. He is a member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and director of the AAA and member of the AAA’s panel of ICDR arbitrators. In addition, he is the Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, Walter Gelhorn Professor of Law and Director of European Legal Studies at Columbia Law School.

Dominique Brown-Berset is a Founding Partner of Brown&Page, working out the firm’s Geneva office and specializing in dispute resolution and public international law. She has been acting as Counsel, Co-Counsel and Arbitrator in over 165 international arbitration cases around the world. Ms. Brown-Berset is former Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) and former International Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Helena Tavares Erickson is the Senior Vice President and Secretary for the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR Institute). Under her direction, CPR released a new generation of books on conflict resolution topics. Ms. Erickson is responsible for creating and convening a number of CPR-membership-based committees charged with designing industry or practice-focused ADR protocols, rules and other products and for overseeing CPR’s Awards Program. She serves as CPR’s Challenge Review Officer and oversees the Dispute Resolution Services and Panels departments in administering complex matters. Prior to joining CPR in 2004, Ms. Ericson practiced for more than seventeen years with the litigation and arbitration groups of Dewey Ballantine and White & Case.

Teresa Giovannini is a founding partner of LALIVE (1994) specialising in international arbitration and litigation, as well as art law. She has acted as counsel and arbitrator in more than 130 international arbitrations, either ad hoc or administered by various institutions (AAA/ICDR, CCIG, ICC, ICHEIC, ICSID, LCIA, Chamber of Commerce of Milan, Chamber of Commerce of Venice). Her areas of specialisation include disputes relating to procurement contracts, license, agency, joint venture and shareholder agreements in a wide range of sectors, in particular infrastructure projects, aviation, transfer of technology, construction of turnkey factories, pharmaceuticals, luxury goods and arts.

F. Peter Phillips is a commercial arbitrator and mediator with substantial experience in resolving commercial disputes and providing consultation on the management of business disputes to companies around the globe. He mediated or arbitrated more than 80 matters since March 2009. Mr. Phillips served for nearly ten years as Senior Vice President of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR Institute). During that time, he earned a reputation as an author, teacher, industry liaison, and systems designer for the avoidance, management and resolution of complex and sophisticated business conflicts. He is listed with the AAA, CPR Institute, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York, FINRA, and other arbitration and mediation bodies.

Klaus Reichert is a Senior Counsel at the Irish Bar. He has served as arbitrator and counsel in over one hundred international cases in many jurisdictions under the LCIA, ICC, ICDR, UNCITRAL, LCIA-DIFC, ICSID and other rules in investment treaty and commercial matters. He is a member of several international bodies including the ITA Board of Reporters, the ILA International Arbitration Committee and the LCIA European Users’ Council. He served as co-chair of the IBA Litigation Committee in 2008-2009 and is currently participating in the Experts’ Group for the Hague Conference on Private International Law project for the development of principles for choice of law in international contracts. He was a member of the Experts’ Group appointed by the European Commission in 2010 to assist with the revisions to the Brussels Regulation vis a vis arbitration. He has acted counsel before the Irish Courts on numerous cases concerning complex commercial and private international law issues since 1992. He has also appeared in the English Courts in relation to one of the landmark cases on the New York Convention, Dallah v Pakistan. He was the chair of the Host Committee for ICCA 2008 in Dublin marking the exact 50th Anniversary of the New York Convention.

Laurence Shore is a Partner with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York. He is a visiting professor in the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary, University of London. Mr. Shore has been the lead advocate in a number of arbitration cases under the LCIA, ICC, ICDR, UNCITRAL, SMA (Society of Maritime Arbitrators), and Swiss Chambers Rules. He has also sat as an arbitrator in ICC, LCIA and ICDR cases. He is a member of the New York, Washington, D.C. and Virginia bars and is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Shore worked in the London office of Herbert Smith. He also worked as an attorney adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser for the U.S. State Department.

Robert Wisner is a Partner in the Litigation group of McMillan in Toronto. His practice focuses on international commercial arbitration, cross-border litigation, investment treaty arbitration and international trade. Mr. Wisner has argued cases involving businesses and governments from around the world before international arbitral tribunals established under international commercial contracts, bilateral investment treaties and trade agreement. His international trade and competition law experience has included representing clients before federal government departments and agencies. He has served as Counsel in ICSID, UNCITRAL and NAFTA investment treaty arbitrations against states in North and South America, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Mr. Wisner has also served as Counsel in ICC, SCC, CIETAC, KLRAC and MNAC commercial arbitration and related litigation involving parties in Canada, Western Europe, Asia and Africa.

Howard S. Zelbo is a Partner in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Mr. Zelbo’s practice focuses on international and domestic arbitration, as well as securities and general commercial litigation. He has extensive experience as lead attorney in numerous arbitrations and has represented banking and other financial institutions in commercial disputes. Mr. Zelbo has represented both bidders and targets in several takeover litigations. He is the former Chairman of the Securities Litigation Committee of the New York State Bar and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Commercial Litigation Section.

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Fee includes: Written course materials includes a copy of Take the Witness: Cross-Examination in International Arbitration (Lawrence W. Newman & Ben H. Sheppard, Jr., editors, a $125.00 value), refreshments at breaks, luncheon and a drinks reception following the program. The fee does not include accommodations.

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Program

Leading international arbitrators and practitioners will discuss, in Socratic form, four topics of importance to counsel, arbitrators and business persons who are involved in the resolution of international commercial disputes through arbitration.

• Pre-hearing activities
• Hearing and post-hearing activities
• Ethics
• Expectations and disappointments in arbitration

These topics are of critical importance to those interested in how international arbitrations can be effectively and fairly conducted. Audience questions and interactions with the various panels is encouraged.

Co-Chairs

Michael Moser is a Chartered Arbitrator and a member of 20 Essex Street Chambers. He is Chairman of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), a Member of the LCIA Court, a Board Member of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and Vice President of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group. He is Co-chair of the China International Arbitration Club.

Grant Hanessian, is a Partner in Baker & McKenzie’s New York office. He is the Co-chair of the firm’s International Arbitration Practice Group and Chair of the Litigation/Dispute Resolution Department in the New York office. Mr. Hanessian represents international and domestic companies, governmental entities and individuals in disputes concerning contract, financial services, construction, commodities, insurance, and intellectual property.

Faculty

Alexander Bĕlohlávek is Founder and Senior Partner of The Bělohlávek Law Offices, Prague. He is a Member of the International Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris as well as Member of the ICC Commission on International Arbitration and a Member of the National Committee of the ICC in the Czech Republic. He has acted as arbitrator or counsel in more than 170 international arbitrations and is listed as arbitrator with the international arbitral centers of several economic chambers in Central Europe. He has published numerous books and articles on arbitration and business law.

George Bermann is the Chief Reporter of the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the U.S. Law of Commercial Arbitration. He is a member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and director of the AAA and member of the AAA’s panel of ICDR arbitrators. In addition, he is the Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, Walter Gelhorn Professor of Law and Director of European Legal Studies at Columbia Law School.

Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel is Professor Emeritus of International Business Law, University of Cologne (Germany) and Chairman of the Board German Institution of Arbitration (DIS). He practices as parties’ counsel, as mediator, and as arbitrator and presient of arbitration tribunal in national and international arbitration of the ICC,  LCIA, ICSID, ECT, NAFTA, CAFTA, DIS, AAA, UNCITRAL and others.

Stephen R. Bond is senior of counsel in Covington & Burling LLP’s London office. He specializes in international commercial arbitration and is a member of the firm’s Arbitration Practice Group. Mr. Bond’s experience includes disputes in the energy, international joint venture, construction, technology, sales and distribution fields. Formerly, a Partner with White & Case in Paris, Mr. Bond was Secretary General of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC from 1985-1991.

Dominique Brown-Berset is a Founding Partner of Brown&Page, working out the firm’s Geneva office and specializing in dispute resolution and public international law. She has been acting as Counsel, Co-Counsel and Arbitrator in over 165 international arbitration cases around the world. Ms. Brown-Berset is former Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) and former International Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

William Laurence Craig is senior counsel in Orrick’s Paris office. Mr. Craig has practiced international commercial law in Paris since 1964 and has focused on international arbitration since 1970. His practice focuses on complex corporate and commercial disputes. He has acted as counsel in more than 150 ICC arbitrations including numerous disputes involving states and state agencies. Mr. Craig frequently acts as arbitrator, both party-appointed and as Chairman, and has served as such in 25 ICC arbitrations and in numerous AAA, LCIA, ICSID, CIETAC and ad hoc arbitrations.

Wulf Gordian Hauser is a Partner in Hauser Partners’ Vienna office. The main areas of his practice are mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking and corporate finance and international commercial arbitration. Mr. Hauser has longterm experience as chairman, sole arbitrator, party appointed arbitrator and counsel to parties in institutional arbitrations as well as in ad-hoc arbitrations.

Hilary Heilbron is a barrister practicing as an advocate in both international arbitration and commercial litigation from Brick Court Chambers, London. She is a former Chairman of the City Disputes Panel, former Vice-Chair of the International Litigation Committee of the IBA and a current Vice-Chair of the Litigation Committee of the International Law Section of the ABA.

Kaj Hobér is a Partner of Mannheimer Swartling in the Stockholm office, and Professor of East European Commercial Law at Uppsala University, Uppsala. He is Co-Chair of the IBA sub-committee on Investment Treaty Arbitration.

Sigvard Jarvin practices international commercial arbitration from Jones Day’s Paris office. He was General Counsel to the ICC International Court of Arbitration 1982-87. Admitted to the Bars of Sweden and Paris, he comments regularly on ICC cases in Journal du Droit International. He was general editor of Stockholm International Arbitration Review 1999-2007.”

Doug Jones is an international dispute resolution lawyer, recognised as a leading arbitrator in the Asia Pacific region. He is a partner in the Australian law firm of Clayton Utz and a door tenant at Atkin Chambers, London. He is currently President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London), President of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, Vice President of APRAG, and a Member of the LCIA Court.

Pierre A. Karrer serves as an Independent Arbitrator. He is a former Partner with Pestalozzi Lachenal Patry, Zurich and Geneva (1976 to 2004) and has served as a Lecturer at the University of Zurich since 1980. Mr Karrer has served as Arbitrator in over 250 international commercial arbitrations. He is Hon. President of the ASA (Swiss Arbitration Association); a Vice President of the Stockholm Arbitration Institute; a former Vice President of the LCIA; a former Court Member of the ICC; former Chairman of the Arbitration Commission of Swiss National Committee of the ICC and a Member, Comité Français de l’Arbitrage.

Vladimir V. Khvalei is a Partner, Baker & McKenzie, Moscow office and is the Head of the firm’s CIS Dispute Resolution Practice Group. Mr. Khvalei is a Vice President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. Mr. Khvalei has wide experience participating in international arbitration cases under the arbitration rules of ICAC, UNCITRAL, ICC, SCC and other arbitration institutions, both as a party counsel and an arbitrator.

Christopher Lau is a Chartered Arbitrator based in Singapore and with 3 Verulam Buildings, London. He sits as an arbitrator in institutional and ad hoc international arbitrations in Singapore and elsewhere.

Michael Lee is a specialist arbitrator and practicing barrister. Before joining the English Bar he was a solicitor and a partner in the law firm, Norton Rose, where he managed the Paris office and the firm;s international arbitration group. He has more than thirty years of experience practicing commercial litigation in the English High court and international arbitration, as well as coordinating and overseeing overseas litigation. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a CEDR accredited mediator.

Barry Leon is a Partner in the International Arbitration Group at Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall.  He primarily serves as counsel in international arbitration, and also serves as an arbitrator and mediator on international cases. He is an active member of numerous international arbitration and dispute resolution organization and institutions, serving in executive positions, and on special task forces and commission. Mr. Leon regularly chairs conferences and panels, and speaks and writes extensively on international arbitration.

Karyl Nairn is a Partner in Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom’s London office. She focuses on international arbitration and commercial litigation, acting for governments and corporation in a range of industry sectors including finance and banking, oil and gas, and telecommunications. Ms. Nairn serves as vice president of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris and is also a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration. The Law Society has granted her the Higher Courts Civil Proceeding Qualification. She is regularly appointed as counsel or arbitrator in complex international disputes in cases conducted under the auspices of such leading arbitral institutions as the LCIA, ICC, SCC, AAA and ICSID.

Sophie Nappert is a dual-qualified lawyer in the UK and Canada. She is an arbitrator in independent practice based in London. She is ranked in Global Arbitration Review’s Top 30 List of Female Arbitrators Worldwide. Her areas of expertise include energy and natural resources, construction, investment treaty disputes and disputes against State parties. Ms. Nappert is a member of the UNCITRAL Working Group on International Commercial Arbitration and Conciliation.

Lawrence W. Newman is Of Counsel in the New York office of Baker & McKenzie. Mr. Newman practices mainly in the area of international litigation and arbitration. He is the author and co-author of several works on international arbitration and litigation.

Alexander Petsche is a Partner with Baker & McKenzie/Diwok, Hermann Petsche Rechtsanwälte GmbH in Vienna. He is active in the firm’s litigation and arbitration practice group and is a Lecturer at the University of Economics in Vienna and at the Danube University in Krems.

Nikolaus Pitkowitz is Founding Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution of Graf & Pitkowitz, Attorneys at Law in Vienna. He is a Board Member of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), experienced party counsel, member of several arbitral panels (including VIAC, CEE/SEE, HKIAC, SIAC), a certified mediator and co-editor of the Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration.

Lucy Reed is co-head of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s global international arbitration group. A specialist in international commercial arbitration and particularly in investment treaty disputes, she advises private and public clients and serves as arbitrator in arbitrations under the AAA, ICC, ICSID, LCIA, UNCITRAL and other rules. Lucy was an arbitrator on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, and served as a co-director of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland (the Holocaust tribunal). She chairs the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and will serve on the LCIA Court as of January 2011. She is co-author of the Guide to ICSID Arbitration and The Freshfields Guide to Arbitration and ADR (both published by Kluwer) and a frequent writer and speaker on international arbitration.

David W. Rivkin is a Litigation Partner in Debevoise & Plimpton’s New York and London offices. He is Co-Chair of the firm’s International Dispute Resolution Group and has been elected the Secretary-General of the International Bar Association (IBA) for the 2011-2012 term. Mr. Rivkin has broad experience in the areas of international litigation and arbitration and has handled international arbitrations throughout the world and before virtually every major arbitration institution, including the ICC, AAA, LCIA, ICSID, IACAC and the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.

Jingzhou Tao is a Partner with Jones Day in Beijing. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in numerous arbitrations. Mr Tao is a Court Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Member of the Advisory Committee of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIRTAC), Chair of the Commission on International Commercial Arbitration of ICC China, adjunct Professor at Peking University Law School, and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Registration

Regular Fee:

$750.00 USD
$475.00 USD for full-time academics, government employees, and in-house counsel.

Special Student Rate:

For full-time students with current ID only contact Juris Conferences at events@jurisconferences.com for current student rate.

Financial Aid: Our financial aid policy is available on our website here.

Fee includes: Written course materials, a copy of The Leading Arbitrators’ Guide to International Arbitration, 2nd Edition (Lawrence W. Newman & Richard D. Hill, editors a $175.00 value), refreshments at breaks, luncheon and a drinks reception following the program. The fee does not include accommodations.

Cancellations: 50% of the Symposium fee will be refunded for any cancellation received in writing by Juris Conferences LLC prior to Monday, April 4, 2011. No refund can be made for cancellations received after this date. You are welcome to send a substitute at any time. Please notify us if you plan to send a substitute since updated registration materials will be required.

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Accommodations

Grand Hotel Wien

Rooms have been blocked for the nights of 16 April 2011 through 18 April 2011 at the Grand Hotel Wien, Kaerntner Ring 9, A-1010 Vienna, Austria at a special conference rate of €240,00 through €300,00 per night (depending on room type) that includes all applicable taxes and fees. Reservations must be received by 16 February 2011 to receive the preferred conference rate. After 16 February 2011 rooms can be booked at conferences rates based upon availability. All arrangements are between the registrant and the hotel.

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