Arbitrator Listing for 28th Vis Moot

Mr Lucas F. G. Bento,

Lawyer and student of Finance and Business at USP, with stints at the University of Illinois and at the University of Chicago, both in the USA. Lucas has developed postgraduate studies, master's level, in Commercial Law at USP and a PhD in Corporate Law and Capital Markets at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Relevant professional experience focused on Corporate Governance, Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Banking and Payment Systems, Commercial Contracts and Real Estate Transactions.

Lucas is a Partner at TN Advogados, in Brazil, and works as a legal executive and lawyer in strategic consulting for new business development, corporate and commercial operations structuring, dispute resolution, with experience in domestic and international arbitration and administrative proceedings and sanctions at Brazilian Securities and Exchange Comission and National Financial System.

Mr Vincent Fach

Vincent participated in the 26th Vis Moot for the University of Munich, winning awards in both the oral and the written phase and is now coaching the Munich team. After finishing his law studies in Munich, he completed the LL.M. in International Commercial Arbitration Law at the University of Stockholm. In October 2022, he started his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Munich.

Dr Johannes Fahner

Dr Johannes Fahner practices law at Allen & Overy LLP in Amsterdam and is a post-doctoral researcher in international law at the University of Amsterdam.

Ms Ania Farren

Ania Farren is a partner at Omnia Strategy. She has over 17 years experience as counsel in international arbitration and has also worked at a leading third party funder. Her practice is a mix of commercial and investment treaty arbitration. She is chair of the ICC UK Committee for arbitration and adr.

Mr Georgios Fasfalis

Georgios is a Managing Associate in the Linklaters Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations practice. He is a dedicated specialist in the field of commercial and investment arbitration and represents multinational companies and states in arbitration proceedings. Georgios’ experience includes involvement in numerous arbitrations conducted under, among others, the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, NAI, SIAC and UNCITRAL Rules, and subject to several applicable laws. He also regularly advises clients in relation to investment treaties and public international law matters.

Georgios is frequently involved in arbitration-related matters, such as setting aside and enforcement proceedings. His experience also includes acting as assistant to arbitrators in commercial and investment arbitrations.

He has been named in previous editions of Legal 500 for Arbitration in the Netherlands.

Mr Alberto Favro

Alberto Favro is a dispute resolution lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. He is qualified in Italy and regularly represents Italian and multinational companies in a variety of commercial and contractual disputes across a broad spectrum of industries, including construction, media, and financial services.
Alberto participated in the 25th edition of the Vis Moot as a member of the Luigi Bocconi University team and he is now a coach of the team.

Dr Marjan Fazeli

Dr. Marjan Fazeli is a qualified Lawyer in Iran Central Bar Association and gives legal advice to several private companies that are active in the international trade and shipping industry of Iran. Also, she is a co-founder of SustainableDevelopmentLawyers which tries to introduce sustainable development objectives to the legal community and businesses.
Ms. Fazeli was an oralist at ELSA International moot court on International Trade and WTO law in 2013.
She obtained her Ph.D. in international arbitration law at Shahid Beheshti University. She also earned her LLB and LLM in International Trade and Economic Law from the University of Tehran. She was a participant in Arbitration Academy(AA) in 2015 in Paris. She is visiting lecturer in arbitration law at Science and Culture University in Tehran.

Mr Marco Aurélio Fernandes Garcia

Master (candidate) in International Law at the University of São Paulo. Exchange student on Space, Media, and Communication Law at the University of Luxembourg. Specialized in Business Law by Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Bachelor of Laws at the University of São Paulo. Lawyer with experience in domestic and international arbitrations.

Mr Marcelo Fernandez

Former Director of the International Arbitration Department of the General Attorney´s Office of Bolivia where I have dealt with different International Arbitration Proceedings. I am currently enrolled in the LLM in Transnational Arbitration Dispute Settlement at SciencesPo, as well as having previous academic background at the University of Arkansas (MPA), the Arbitration Academy, American University - Washington College of Law, and the Hague Academy for International Law.

Mr Alexander Fessas

Alexander G. Fessas is the Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. As Secretary General, he is responsible for the work of the ICC Court’s Secretariat and other dispute resolution services in Paris, Singapore, New York, Sao Paolo, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi Global Market. He read law at the University of Athens, Greece having specialized in international commercial transactions and conflict of laws. Prior to joining the ICC Court, he practiced as counsel out of Athens where he established a sole practice in 2008. He was previously an associate at an Athens-based law firm. He speaks English, French and Greek.

Mr Rory Field

Rory Field, FCIArb is a barrister, mediator and arbitrator and is a tenant of 15 New Bridge Street Chambers, London. He was Director of Public Prosecutions (D.P.P.) of Bermuda (2007-2016), Legal Advisor on Organized Crime for the O.S.C.E. in Serbia (2003-2007) and D.P.P. of Belize (1999-2001). He is a Senator of the International Association of Prosecutors and former Vice President for North America and the Caribbean.
Rory moved from Bermuda to Vienna in 2016 and became C.E.O. of ViennEast Ltd, a good governance and risk advisory consultancy focused on the C.E.E. region. In 2019 Rory returned to the UK and became Senior Adviser: Criminal Cartels at the Competition and Markets Authority. In 2021 Rory returned to full time private practice as a barrister. He has particular interest as a lawyer and advocate in complex international crime, extradition, regulatory offences, civil and commercial mediation and international commercial arbitration. Rory has been lead counsel in three separate jurisdictions and has conducted many cases in front of juries, in the Court of Appeal and before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Mr Steven Finizio

Steven Finizio is a partner in Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in commercial and treaty arbitrations in matters involving the laws of jurisdictions in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the US. He is a member of the LCIA Court and the GIAC Advisory Council. His pro bono work has included assisting a Central European government to draft new arbitration legislation and he was part of the team that won a landmark decision in the first freedom of expression case in the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. He teaches arbitration, including as Professor of Practice at SOAS University London as well as at the Cologne Arbitration Academy. He writes frequently on arbitration issues, including “A Practical Guide to International Commercial Arbitration: Assessment, Planning and Strategy” and “International Commercial Arbitration” in The Law of Transnational Business Transactions.

Ms Débora Fiszman

Débora Fiszman graduated from Fundação Getulio Vargas of Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and is a member of the Brazilian Bar since 2017. In 2022, concluded a Master’s Degree in International Law at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. As a practitioner, has worked for seven years with international commercial arbitration and commercial law in Lauro Gama Advogados Associados as an assistant of Professor Lauro Gama Jr. Former participant in the Vis Moot (Frédéric Eisemann Award) and former coach of the FGV Rio team (2015-2022). Currently enrolled in the "International Civil and Commercial Law LLM" at Leiden University and coach of the Leiden University team.

Mr Gustav Flecke-Giammarco

Gustav is a co-founder of the Munich-based law firm Seven Summits Arbitration (7SA). 7SA combines the expertise and cross-border track-record clients expect from a leading international law firm with the flexibility and efficiency of a boutique practice.

Before founding 7SA in 2017, Gustav was a senior associate at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek. Prior to joining HKLW in 2015, Gustav headed the case management team responsible for arbitrations seated in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Benelux, and Nordic countries at the ICC International Court of Arbitration. During his six years in Paris, Gustav supervised over 850 proceedings, including investment treaty and emergency arbitrator cases, and was involved in the scrutiny of 450 awards.

Gustav acts as counsel and arbitrator in multifaceted domestic and international arbitrations, involving a wide array of subject matters and several applicable laws. His institutional track record includes cases under the ICC, DIS, VIAC, SCC, FAI and SCAI rules.

Gustav serves on the drafting committee for the 2018 DIS Rules and the ICC commission on arbitration and ADR. He is a guest lecturer at the University of Bonn, Swiss Arbitration Academy and Swiss International Law School, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of International Arbitration.

Ms L. Reagan Florence

Reagan Florence is licensed attorney admitted within the State and Federal District Courts of Minnesota; the State court of Utah; and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She currently practices complex commercial litigation and arbitration as an attorney for Alan Anderson Law Firm LLC.

Prior to law school, Ms. Florence worked for a multi-million dollar international health and wellness company for five years. During that time, Ms. Florence also obtained her Bachelors of Science from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Following her undergraduate degree, Ms. Florence attended and graduated from Mitchell Hamline in 2014. At Mitchell Hamline, Ms. Florence served on the Hamline Law Journal of Public Law and Policy, and was published in 2013 for her article regarding state immunity statutes and policy implications. Ms. Florence was also elected to the Board of Governors as a class representative for her school, and was selected to compete and represented her school at the international VIS Moot law competition in Vienna, Austria, where she and her teammate were awarded the Honorable Mention for the Frédéric Eisemann Award in Team Orals. Ms. Florence also co-published and authored a research study commissioned by the European Union in 2013, regarding the Mediation Directive throughout the EU.

Ms. Florence also has a passion for philanthropy. In law school, Ms. Florence served as the Vice Chair for the Minnesota Justice Foundation, and completed twice the required amount of pro-bono hours for graduation. Ms. Florence also served on a number of charitable committees in law school, focused on justice inequality. After law school, Ms. Florence served on the Board of Directors for the United Nations Women, Utah Chapter of Salt Lake City, from 2015-2016, and presently serves as an advisor of advocacy.

Mrs Cristina FLORESCU

Cristina Florescu is a PhD university senior lecturer on commercial law and arbitration at the Faculty of Law, Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, and an associate university lecturer on international arbitration master at the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest and of the Romanian-American University, lawyer with her own commercial and arbitration law practice (Bucharest Bar) and also an arbitrator at the International Court of Commercial Arbitration (Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania and Moldova) and at the Vienna International Arbitration Centre (VIAC).
She is a PhD graduate, with a doctoral thesis in the field of commercial arbitration published in Romania.
Prior to her law carrier she graduated also the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics, B.Sc. 1994, specializing in superior algebra.
Participant and speaker to numerous international and domestic conferences in arbitration and commercial law fields, also participation to scientific sessions and seminars/webinars organized by various institutions, law faculties etc. Publications in several specialized journals, reviews, collections of essays, books, courses in commercial law, mediation and arbitration field.

Ms Vanessa Foncke

Vanessa Foncke is a partner in the Global Disputes team of Jones Day. She practices in all aspects of dispute resolution and contract negotiations and has extensive experience in domestic and international commercial arbitration both as counsel and arbitrator. Vanessa's experience ranges across a broad spectrum of industries and areas of law, including construction, corporate disputes (notably including post M&A disputes), complex contractual disputes, distribution, heavy industry, telecommunications, and alternative energy. She is ranked in Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, The Legal 500 EMEA, GAR and Who's Who Legal: Arbitration.
Vanessa is a member of the board of administration and the executive committee of CEPANI, the Belgian institution for arbitration and mediation. In that capacity she participates to the bi-annual meetings of UNCITRAL Working Group II (Arbitration and Conciliation). Previously, Vanessa was the co-chair of CEPANI40, and the editor-in-chief of the CEPANI newsletter.
Vanessa is a lawyer in the Flemish section of the Brussels Bar and served until recently on the board of the Brussels Bar Council. She is also part of the commission for arbitration and ADR of the Flemish Bars Association.

Ms Anna Förstel-Cherng

Anna Förstel-Cherng was appointed as new Deputy Secretary General for the period 1 December 2022 until February 2024. Prior to this transition, she was a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution Team of BINDER GRÖSSWANG focusing on arbitration, international civil proceedings, and contract law. Beforehand, Anna Förstel-Cherng was an Associate at Baker McKenzie (Vienna). She has a law degree from the University of Vienna and an LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Anna Förstel-Cherng is Co-chair of the Advisory Board of the Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners (YAAP) and passed the Austrian and New York State Bar.

Ms Angela Foster

ANGELA FOSTER
Certified as a mediator and arbitrator, Angela has resolved and adjudicated over 500 disputes involving commercial and business disputes, negligence actions, employment discrimination claims and intellectual property law disputes. She is immediate past chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association and a member of numerous alternative dispute resolution panels including the Commercial and Large Complex Case mediation and arbitration rosters of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the Panel of Distinguished Neutrals of the Institute for Conflict Resolution & Prevention, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Angela was appointed to the Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center's List of the World's Leading Technology Neutrals and a member of the AAA-ICDR Council. Angela frequently publishes articles on intellectual property law and alternative dispute resolution, as well as, appears on various panels. She authored “Waiver of Privilege”, a chapter in the American Arbitration Association Handbook on Arbitration Practice, 2nd Edition. She is currently writing a chapter in The Arbitration of International IP Disputes 2 ed. Angela received a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and bachelor’s in Microbiology and juris doctorate in law from Rutgers University.

Ms Cherine Foty

Cherine Foty is a Senior Associate in the International Arbitration Group of Covington & Burling LLP, based in Washington, D.C. She is a dually qualified common law and civil law lawyer, a member of the New York, Paris, and DC Bars, and a US-French dual national. She spent several years practicing international arbitration in the Paris office of a major U.S. law firm and was a Professor of Law at the Sorbonne and Assas Law Schools in Paris.

Cherine’s practice is focused on international commercial and investor-state arbitration under a range of arbitral rules and applicable laws. She has represented clients in ad hoc proceedings, arbitrations governed by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Rules and lex mercatoria, and before major institutions such as the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), the Dubai International Financial Centre-LCIA (DIFC-LCIA), and the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA).

Cherine has particular experience in the energy sector, regularly representing clients in gas pricing arbitrations under long-term gas supply agreements. She has also handles complex international commercial disputes across different sectors, involving construction contracts, share purchase agreements, joint venture agreements, shareholders’ agreements, technology agreements, and trademark agreements, among others. Cherine has acted for both investors and states in investor-state arbitrations involving public and private international law. In addition, she has significant experience with conservatory and emergency measures as well as the enforcement and annulment of arbitral awards in state courts around the world.

Cherine is a Delegate to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. She is on the boards of directors of ArbitralWomen, the Vice President of the Campaign for Greener Arbitration, on the Steering Committee of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution’s Y-ADR, the Advisor for Diversity & Inclusion for Arbitrator Intelligence, and a Member of the Rising Arbitrators' Initiative. She has been recognized as a Best Lawyers “One to Watch” for France in the field of international arbitration and speaks five languages.

Ms Nora Fredstie

Nora is an associate in White & Case Dispute Resolution Group in London. Her work focuses on international investment arbitration, international commercial arbitration, and public international law.

She acts for clients across a broad spectrum of sectors, including investment, oil and gas, construction, life science, renewable energy, and automotive. She has acted and participated in international arbitrations conducted under the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, SCC, SIAC, CRCICA and UNCITRAL arbitration rules. Further to her counsel work, she have acted as administrative secretary to arbitral tribunals.

Nora is a member of the IBA Arb40 Steering Committee, frequently speaks at conferences, and teaches international dispute settlement at various universities. For 2020 and 2021, she was ranked as a future leader in international arbitration by Who's Who Legal.

Nora completed her LLB/BA at the Australian National University and the MIDS LLM in Geneva. She is an Attorney and Counselor at Law in the State of New York, a Solicitor in England & Wales, admitted to the roll of the Irish law society, and an REL with the Paris bar. Nora has worked in Australia, The Netherlands, Chile, France, and United Kingdom. This work centered on public international law, international investment arbitration, and international commercial arbitration.

Ms Kristina Fridman

Mid-level associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP specializing in international arbitration (both commercial and investor-state).

Mr Paw Fruerlund

Paw Fruerlund is a Danish attorney at law and partner with the Law Firm Poul Schmith, the largest Danish law firm, which handles more court and arbitral cases than any other legal firm in Denmark. Paw specializes in litigation and arbitration. Paw has the right of audience before the Supreme court of Denmark.

Dr Simon Gabriel

Simon Gabriel specialises in international arbitration and has participated in more than 100 international arbitration proceedings. He is founder and owner of the Zurich based arbitration boutique law firm GABRIEL Arbitration and is thus entirely independent.
Simon is regularly appointed as arbitrator in proceedings governed by the ICC Rules, Swiss Rules and Vienna Rules. He is listed on the arbitrators' list of ICC Switzerland and on the VIAC list of recommended practitioners. Furthermore, he has acted as counsel for parties in arbitration proceedings under ICC Rules, Swiss Rules, Vienna Rules, DIS Rules, SCC Rules and ad hoc rules. In terms of amounts in dispute, his experience includes the whole range from $700,000 to $120,000,000.
Simon studied law at University of Berne and University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He graduated in 2002, passed the Swiss bar exam in 2004 and is admitted to all Swiss courts. He also holds a PhD from University of Lucerne and an LL.M. in advocacy from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Before opening GABRIEL Arbitration in 2012 he was a member of the dispute resolution group of the international law firm CMS in Zurich.
Simon regularly publishes and speaks on subjects of international arbitration and Swiss international private law.

Mr Almir Gagula

Born in 1982.

Education:
2001-2006 Faculty of Law, University Sarajevo, Dipl. iur.
2006-2009 Faculty of Law, University Sarajevo, Master degree; Law on Obligations: Legal effects of termination of the contract under Bosnian law and PECL
2011-2015 Faculty of Law, University Sarajevo, Doctorate; Law on Obligations: Freedom of contract as an instrument of autonomous regulation.

Professional experience:
2006- Law office Gagula
2017- Professor at the Faculty of Law, University Zenica, Company law, Contract law, Arbitration.

Specialized in Corporate, Commercial law and Arbitration. Arbitration related experience: 15 arbitrations under Sarajevo and ICC Rules, as an arbitrator and a counsel (sale, construction, FIDIC, M&A etc). Fluent in English.

Mr David Gallo

Mr. Gallo is a litigation and arbitration attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Mr. Gallo is an adjunct professor at Emory Law School, an author of the Arbitration chapter of Georgia Business Litigation, and the Programming Chair of the Atlanta International Arbitration Society. Previously, Mr. Gallo was an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School, the coach of the Fordham Vis Moot team, and an associate with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Fried Frank in New York. Mr. Gallo competed in the 19th and 20th Vis moots for Columbia Law School.

Mr Javier Galperin Margounato

Lawyer practicing in international litigation and domestic labour law, with extensive previous experience in Vis Moot and other International Commercial and Investment Arbitration Moots

Mrs Ana Galus

A 2009 graduate of the Moldovan State University, Law Faculty. Following a brief employment with the Moldovan Ministry of Justice, where I worked as a public officer in court administration, I have further continued my studies with Leiden University (the Netherlands), obtaining an LL.M. in EU Law. I joined the Turcan Cazac Law Firm (www.turcanlaw.md, Moldova's Top Law Firm for 17 Years (Chambers, 2001-2017)) in 2011, following an internship at the Legal Division of the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
At Turcan Cazac, I specialize in commercial, corporate and competition law, as well as financings and PPPs, while being involved in all competition law matters of the firm, advising on mergers and acquisitions, and providing representation in proceedings before the Competition Council on the subject of abuse of dominant position, anti-competitive behavior and unfair competition. Partner at Turcan Cazac Law Firm since January 2019.
Member of the Moldovan Bar. Since 2013, I also act as an accredited mediator.
Fluent in English, Romanian, and Russian.

Professor (Dr) Vikas H. Gandhi

Associate Professor of Law at Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) Gandhinagar (Gujarat), India. Teaching at the university since last thirteen years. Awarded prestigious visiting- fellowship -2018 by Asian Law Institute (ASLI)- Singapore in the subject of International Commercial Arbitration.

Mr Javier García Urbano

I am an LLM student on Spanish Legal Practice and International Advocacy at Carlos III University, specializing in international dispute resolution. I participated two years ago at the Vis Moot, as an oralist-team member, qualifying Carlos III University into the 64' round. I have been coaching the Carlos III Team since then.

Also, I am the co-president of ACMEY -the Arbitration & Mooting society at Carlos III- and I am one of the organizers of the Madrid Vis Pre-Moot.

Finally, I have working experience in the international arbitration department of a London-based law firm, as well as experience in tax law and capital markets.

Dr Risham Garg

Dr. Risham Garg is Associate Professor of Law and also the Director of the Centre for Transnational Commercial Law at the National Law University Delhi, INDIA. He holds a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.), doctoral research degree, on Contracts of International Sale of Goods titled "UN CISG Convention- A Case for Ratification by India". He teaches courses on ‘Bankruptcy Insolvency & Restructuring’ and ‘International Commercial Laws’ in the LLM programme, he also teaches courses in the BA.LLB. program on Law of Contracts, Sale of Goods and Seminar Courses of International Commercial Laws, Private International Law.
He acts as an Arbitrator at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot on the International Sale of Goods (CISG Convention) at Vienna and at Hong Kong. He has been a Visiting Research Scholar at UNCITRAL, Vienna, Austria in 2007. He is continuing with the National Law University Delhi since 2009. He is also an ordinary member of the Indian Law Institute, the Indian Society of International Law and the Asian Society of International Law. His total work experience is around 20 years, including around 4 years in the practice and over 17 years as a regular full-time faculty.

Ms Ana Gasviani

Currently conducting internship at Arbitration Court attached to Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, working on anonymazation of awards, translation of procedural rules and facilitation of online arbitration.
My background involves participation in the Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in 2018 while representing Ilia State University from Georgia and 2019 while representing Karoli Gaspar University from Hungary. Additionally, my three-year working experience involves focuses on investment and contractual law.

Ms Lucie Gerhardt

Lucie Gerhardt is an associated partner at Noerr LLP in Frankfurt am Main. Her practice focuses on commercial and investment arbitration as well as complex, large-scale international litigation. She represents German and international clients in commercial, corporate and civil disputes before German courts and in arbitrations under various arbitration rules as well as in ad hoc proceedings. Lucie has acted as counsel in arbitrations concerning a variety of subject matters with particular experience in post-M&A disputes, contractual damages claims and trade law. Her clients include pharmaceutical companies, international vendors and companies from the renewable energy sector. Lucie also regularly acts as an arbitrator in commercial arbitrations with an industry focus on the energy and health care sectors. Her regional focus includes Europe and Asia. Additionally, Lucie has broad experience in advising German clients that are involved in US litigation on litigation strategy, issues of international procedural law and the cross-border taking of evidence, including discovery and depositions.

Ms Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz

Founding (1993) and senior partner at GESSEL. Beata is an expert practitioner in arbitration, M&A, private equity and commercial law. Former member of the ICC International Arbitration Court (2015-2021). Honorary President of the Lewiatan Arbitration Court (2017). She chairs the Audit Committee of the Polish Private Equity Association. To this date Beata Gessel has participated, as an arbitrator, counsel and expert, in approx. 150 both domestic and international, arbitration cases (conducted according to rules including those of the ICC, UNCITRAL, SCC, VIAC, SAC, FCC, IAA, SCAI, SIDiR, Lewiatan, Polish National Chamber of Commerce and the National Depository for Securities). Member of the ICDR/AAA Rules Revision Task Force and SCC Arbitrators' Council.
Beata Gessel is also an adjunct professor in commercial arbitration as well as M&A transactions at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw. Received her PhD from Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw in 2009; title: ‘Legal Character of Representations and Warranties in a Limited Liability Company Share Purchase Agreement (in Light of the Freedom of Contract Principle)’, published by Wolters Kluwer, become an essential source of legal doctrine in this respect in Poland. In 2019 Kluwer Law International published her habilitation thesis titled ‘The Legal, Real and Converged Interest in Declaratory Relief’. The book focuses on declaratory relief in litigation and arbitration.

MS Sima Ghaffari

I am a member of the Tehran Bar Association and presently serve as an ICC YAF Representative for North Africa, Turkey and Middle East. My practice focuses on dispute resolution and business law. I am also an arbitrator at ACIC. I frequently publish articles pertaining to ADR, in particular international arbitration and mediation. I can be reached at: sima.ghaffari6@gmail.com

Ms Elena Gheorghe

I specialise in international arbitration and currently work as an associate at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, a law firm in Amsterdam. Before working at De Brauw , I attended the LL.M. program in International Economic Law from University of Edinburgh, where I focused on International Investment Arbitration and Commercial Arbitration.

Mr Sean Gibbs

Managing Director, Hanscomb Intercontinental Ltd

BSc, LLB (Hons), PG Dip Arb, Dip Adj, LLM, Barrister Middle Temple, MICE, FRICS, FCIARB, FCIOB

Sean is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and has over 30 years global experience in the onshore and offshore construction, engineering and ship building industries. He sits as an adjudicator, arbitrator, dispute board member and expert determiner. Sean is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators and founder of UK Adjudicators. Sean is available to sit in Asia, Europe, Africa, GCC, Americas & Australasia to resolve disputes as sole arbitrator or arbitral panel member. He has regularly sat in the Pre Vis Moots and Vis East Moot and keenly supports students taking part in the competition.

Mr Nika Gigashvili

I am a Vis Moot alumni of 2014 as an oralist for Tbilisi State University Vienna team. Since I have organized a number of vis pre-moots and served as an arbitrator for numerous teams nationally and internationally. Currently, I am a second-year JD student at Penn State Law and an Associate Editor of Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs.

Ms Sara Gillingham Aukner

Experienced commercial arbitrator and mediator with an executive history in shipping, insurance and commercial property (30 years). Sara’s extensive operational knowledge spans chartering and ship-owning, shipbuilding, insurance, derivative trading, maritime logistics and commercial property. Her career started at a City of London law firm, in house at an international insurer, then first lawyer in-house , and ultimately General Counsel of, a leading dry bulk ship operator. A trusted advisor used to delivering value and pragmatic commercial solutions in complex multi-jurisdictional scenarios. Other relevant industry experience: country representative on Bimco Documentary Committee (6 years) and non-executive board experience in marine insurance and commercial property.

Sara has successfully resolved a wide variety of disputes worldwide and has extensive knowledge of mediation and arbitration. With a proven track record of negotiating settlements, she understands the importance of preserving commercial relationships. In arbitration, she understands the need for efficiency of procedure and costs.

English lawyer resident in Oslo, certified mediator, Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an Aspiring Full Member of the LMAA. Member of the LCIA, panel member of EMAC and SCMA. Interested in mediation and arbitration appointments worldwide, particularly in England, the Nordics, Singapore and Dubai.

Ms Ketevani Givishvili

Ketevan is a VIS Moot and alumna and a legal education professional. Currently serving as a quality assurance manager at the Law School of the University Georgia, her primary duties include the management of program and study process development. Alongside, she continues to coach teams for VIS Moot Competition. Ketevan holds the Bachelor's degree in law from Tbilisi State University and Master's degree in law from Georgian Institute of Public Affairs.

Mr Ricardo Gomes

Ricardo practices in the Hannes Snellman Dispute Resolution Group in Helsinki, Finland with a special focus on cross-border disputes. He represents clients in international and domestic commercial arbitration proceedings. Ricardo has particular experience of M&A, telecommunications, contractual, and construction disputes. In addition, Ricardo also advises clients on enforcement proceedings.

His past work experience includes investment arbitration proceedings.

Ricardo has also acted as an arbitrator in an international dispute under the FAI Rules.

In addition to his experience at Hannes Snellman, Ricardo has worked with international arbitration and litigation at another major Finnish law firm and at a leading international arbitration practice in Switzerland.

Mr Juan Pablo Gómez Moreno

I am an associate working in the Bogota office of Juan Felipe Merizalde Abogados. My professional practice focuses on international commercial and investment arbitration. In particular, I have practical experience in cutting-edge domestic arbitrations and high-stakes international arbitration proceedings on different issues such as construction, post-M&A disputes, and a variety of contractual breaches. My previous work also includes litigation and alternative dispute resolution. I hold a BA in Philosophy, an LLB, a postgraduate degree in International Business Law, and a Masters' in Private Law from Universidad de los Andes. I have published journal papers and blog entries on human rights, M&A arbitration, and international commercial and investment arbitration.

Before joining my current team, I acquired experience working in a state-owned company and two leading law firms, where I advised several national and international clients in multi-billion dollar deals and disputes on projects in the oil & gas, energy, infrastructure, TMT, and transportation industries. I am also interested in public international law, international trade law, and human rights. I have worked researching and teaching on a wide array of these issues and I enjoy taking part as a volunteer judge in several international moot courts. I also keep an active pro bono practice, advising individuals and non-profit organizations on matters related to human rights litigation, sustainability, and the protection of the rights of children, victims of armed conflict, and persons with disabilities.

Mr Mauricio Gomm

Partner at GST LLP, Miami. FCIArb. CEDR Mediator. LLM Internation Commercial Arbitration 1992, Queen Mary´- University of London. LL.M University of Miami 2005. Professor of Law University of Miami 2007/10; Guest Lecturer at Pontificia Catholic University, Sao Paulo, Brazil from 2015 teaching International Commercial Arbitration and Guest Lecturer at Pontificia Catholic University, Parana, Brazil.

Ms Wendy Gonzales

Wendy Gonzales is founder of CyberArb, an initiative to create awareness and practical guidance about Cybersecurity in International Arbitration, which is mentored by Sophie Nappert. She is a Spanish qualified lawyer with LL.M in International Business Law and Arbitration. Currently based in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), she is fluent in Spanish, English, French, and Italian. She is Disputes and Litigation counsel as well as cybersecurity delegate for ASUS in AMETIC, a National Association of Technology Companies. On a volunteering basis, she is Ambassador of Arbitrator Intelligence. Along with her deep involved at Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot as a volunteer arbitrator and mentor-coach for Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In conjunction with her role as Executive Board member of the Moot Alumni Association.

Mr Clark Goodman

Mr. Goodman is a 1993 graduate of Harvard Law School. He is the managing partner of Womble Bond Dickinson's Charlotte, North Carolina office. For more than 25 years, he has practiced as a dispute resolution attorney in domestic and international disputes. He has appeared in U.S. state and federal courts and before international and domestic arbitration tribunals in a wide variety of matters, including complex banking, commercial, intellectual property, and licensing disputes.

Ms Thara Gopalan

Thara graduated from the University of Bristol with a Bachelors of Law, and from the University College London with a Masters of Law. Whilst at University, she competed in various mooting competitions including the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2015. Thara now practices as a lawyer in Singapore in the dispute resolution department of TSMP Law Corporation, with a focus on shareholder disputes spanning various forms of dispute resolution mechanisms including litigation, arbitration and arbitration-hybrids.

Mr Alexander Gordon

Alex Gordon currently works at Swiss Reinsurance Management Ltd. in Zurich, Switzerland, where he handles internal investigations globally across Swiss Re's offices. Previously, he focused on reinsurance litigation and arbitration at two law firms in the US, and arbitration at a Swiss firm in Zurich.

Alex graduated from Harvard Law School in 2005, and has participated in the Vis Moot since 2004 as a student, coach and arbitrator.

Mr Ali Can Gören

Ali Can Gören is a mid-associate at the Istanbul chapter of Dentons. He focuses on real estate development and construction as well as mergers and acquisitions and project finance in the real estate sector. He is a graduate of İstanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law. He participated in the Erasmus Exchange Program at Université de Fribourg in Switzerland. He previously coached Galatasaray University and Kadir Has University's Willem C. Vis Moot Teams and has been coaching Istanbul University's Willem C. Vis Moot Team for the past two years. He has been arbitrating at the Istanbul Bilgi University Pre-Moot for the past four years. He is a member of the İstanbul Bar and he is fluent in English (IELTS score 8.5/9) and French (high school degree equivalent of French Baccalauréat).

Ms Fulya Görer

Fulya Görer focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, corporate governance and arbitration in various sectors, including, but not limited to manufacturing, retail, communications, technology, media and entertainment and transportation. On mergers and acquisitions, from both buy-side and sell-side, she coordinates and participates in due diligence processes, prepares and participates in the negotiation of transaction documents and assists on closing and post-closing support and business integration. On corporate law and corporate governance matters, she advises on corporate governance processes including preparation of corporate governance documentation and supervises and conducts daily retainer corporate works including drafting and negotiating commercial contracts. On arbitration, she works for both claimant and respondent sides, in both institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, drafts statements and participates in representation during the tenure of the arbitral proceedings.

Mr Duncan Gorst

I am an international dispute resolution lawyer at Osborne Clarke, based in Munich, Germany. I provide clients with advocacy and strategic advice in complex international disputes, with a focus on international arbitration.

I have handled institutional and ad hoc arbitration proceedings around the world, spanning both common and civil law jurisdictions. I focus primarily on complex disputes in international supply chains involving manufacturing and engineering projects. I have worked with clients in industries including automotive, rail, aerospace and defence, technology, energy, and life sciences.

I am admitted to practice law in both England and Wales (Solicitor Advocate) and New York. I hold degrees in both English and German law. I am a dual British-German citizen.

I also have an active pro bono practice, regularly advising NGOs on international law issues, in particular human rights protection.

Mr Siddharth Gosain

I am an Associate at Muñoz & Arias Sports Lawyers, a law firm based in Valencia, Spain which specializes in Sports Law. My work invloves drafting of pleadings before FIFA and Court of Arbitration for Sport.

I have previously worked with Dua Associates, which is a full-service national law firm in India. I worked with both the litigation and corporate teams in the capacity of an associate.

Dr Diego Brian Gosis

Participated as student in the VI edition and as an arbitrator since 2004 in the Vis Moot. Acted as counsel or arbitrator in over 50 international investment and commercial arbitration proceedings. Member of ICCA, the IBA Subcommittee on Arbitration, the ICC World Institute of Business Law, ICC's Commission on ADR and Arbitration and other organizations. Ranked in Chambers, Who's Who and other publications. Frequent speaker and contributor on matters of international arbitration and international public law.

Mag Leopold Gottsauner-Wolf

I studied law in Vienna and Maynooth, Ireland, where I visited classes focusing on international litigation and ADR. During my studies I've been working as a research assistant at the University in Vienna. Currently, I am an associate at Graf & Pitkowitz working in the dispute resolution team. As such, I had the opportunity to gain experience working in the field of international arbitration. Friends of mine have been part of the VIS Moot and encouraged me to take part as an arbitrator. I am particularly intrigued by the opportunities the VIS Moot provides for young practitioneers and I would be more than happy to take part in this fascinating procedure.

Dr Anastasios Gourgourinis

Anastasios Gourgourinis is Lecturer in Public International Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Faculty of Law, a Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens and a practising advocate with the Athens Bar in Greece, advising on issues related to international economic law and international arbitration. Prior to that he was an Adjunct Lecturer in International Economic Law at the Athens University of Economics and Business, while he has also served as Special Legal Advisor at the Hellenic Ministry of State, and as a Special Legal Advisor for Strategic Investments at the Hellenic Ministry of Development and Competitiveness.

Mr Viraj Greedharry

Viraj Greedharry is an Independent International Arbitrator on the roster of Arbitrators of the Saudi Centre for Commercial Arbitrators, the Vienna International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, the Maldives International Arbitration Centre and the Mediation and Arbitration Centre of Mauritius. Viraj is also a Court Advocate/Lawyer of England and Wales with a broad commercial & civil law practice and he has several years of combined experience in law, insurance and corporate governance, covering areas of law such as commercial and company matters, contractual disputes, patent breaches, banking & financial services breaches, civil aviation disputes, insurance disputes, housing & charity regulation and compliance, regulatory and disciplinary matters within healthcare, telecommunications, transport & logistics, personal injury matters, corporate governance and alternative dispute resolution. Viraj also has a detailed and specialist knowledge of international arbitration, law of international investment, commercial law and international business law. Viraj is a Fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), an Associate Chartered Secretary member (UK), an Accredited Civil-Commercial Mediator (UK) and is admitted as a Barrister of England & Wales. He is highly regarded for his prompt, efficient resolution of disputes and his court advocacy skills.

Mr Simon Greenberg

Simon is a Partner with Clifford Chance's international arbitration group in Paris, representing clients in international arbitrations and acting as arbitrator. His experience covers all major arbitral institutions and a range of dispute types, notably including mining & metals, technology/telecommunications, construction, corruption and compliance, and aviation.
Before joining Clifford Chance in early 2012, he spent four years as Deputy Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, having previously practiced with leading international arbitration firms in Paris and Australia. He has authored or co-authored over 30 articles and two books on international arbitration. His first book ("International Commercial Arbitration: An Asia-Pacific Perspective", Cambridge 2011) was the first subject-by-subject international arbitration text book with an Asia-Pacific focus. His second book ("The Secretariat's Guide to ICC Arbitration", ICC 2012) includes an article-by-article commentary on the 2012 ICC Rules of Arbitration. Simon also lectures on international arbitration at Sciences Po in Paris and is a Visiting Professor of international arbitration at Hong Kong University. He was a Court Member (Australia) of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, a Member of the Court of the Jerusalem Arbitration Centre, and an Australian government delegate to the United Nations Conference on International Trade Law.

Mr Michael Greenop

Michael is a Fellow of CI Arb and an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s London office. His practice focuses on international arbitration and public international law. He previously practiced as an employed barrister for Sir David AR Williams KNZM QC and two civil litigation barristers. He has appeared as counsel in New Zealand courts and in arbitrations. He has also assisted tribunals in international commercial arbitrations and investor-state arbitrations under various institutional rules.

Michael has conjoint Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce degrees from the University of Auckland, where he was a contract law tutor and helped develop the trial advocacy course. He represented New Zealand at the world’s most prestigious competitions in mooting (Philip C Jessup International Law Moot) and mediation (ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition), ranking second place in both and receiving individual recognition as the world’s third best speaker in the former. He also competed at the 22nd Willem C Vis Moot, receiving an honourable mention for best individual speaker.

Michael has published work and has been invited to speak on arbitration-related topics. He assisted in the preparation of New Zealand’s leading text on arbitration and co-founded New Zealand’s preeminent group for young arbitration practitioners.

Ms Iva Grgić

Iva Grgić obtained her Master of Law degree from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law in May 2013 and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2014.

Iva is currently an SJD student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she is writing a dissertation under the supervision and guidance of professor Ronald A. Brand. In her doctoral research, Iva focuses on the imbalance of powers inherent between farmer and buyer within contract farming and how that imbalance leads to unfair trading practices that harm the farmer, an economically weaker party. Iva’s dissertation aims to provide a future dispute resolution model that could help minimize the negative consequences of unfair trade practices and ensure commercial justice and contract enforcement for the farmers.

Iva works as a law lecturer at Prince Sultan University, College of Law.

Mr Vasilije Grgurević

Vasilije Grgurević is an LL.M candidate at the Institute for Law and Finance at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where he has been working for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP as part of the Capital markets and Finance team. He graduated with honours at the Law Faculty of the University of Montenegro, specializing in Commercial Law and has more than 3 years of professional experience, mainly providing services regarding Finance and Banking law, Commercial law and Dispute Resolution. He has been involved in several national and international commercial arbitration cases.
He was a University of Montenegro team member at 24th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot and has been a coach of the University of Montenegro Vis moot team since June 2017.

Mr Tudor Grigorean

Having attended previously in the Moot as a participant and an assistant coach, through the people I met and through the experiences I have had, I can say that it certainly made a strong impact in my life and also my future career. I became very interested in commercial law and especially in international commercial arbitration and this influenced me greatly in obtaining a LL.M. degree in international arbitration at the University of Bucharest. Now, in my profession as a lawyer, I handle my clients' situations in various matters, not only in commercial law, but also in other related fields, and find myself still applying many of the skills and knowledge acquired from the time I was last actively involved in this Moot as a participant. I strongly feel that I want to return to this absolutely great environment and am excited about participating in the Moot again, now from another perspective.

Mrs Annemarie Grosshans

Mrs Grosshans has practiced in both Civil and Common Law jurisdictions. She has a longstanding practice of national and international dispute resolution, consultation, contract negotiations and contract designing. She has handled hundreds of cases as counsel, arbitrator and mediator in English and German.
Mrs Grosshans is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), a member of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) and a member of the German Institute of Arbitration (DIS).
Mrs. Grosshans regularly acts as arbitrator at the Vis Moot. She has been a strong supporter of the Vis Moot since its beginning.

Dr Manuela Grosu

Manuela Grosu LL.M. PhD is a Managing Associate, lead attorney-at-law at the dispute resolution practice group of KPMG Legal Tóásó Law Firm (Budapest). She has a PhD in law (ELTE Law School) and has also obtained an LL.M. degree in US and Global Business Law for International Business Lawyers from Suffolk University (Boston). She is a visiting lecturer at ELTE Law School where she teaches commercial mediation and private international law. She has gained significant experience in domestic and international arbitration and commercial litigation involving complex cross-border issues. She represented clients under the ICC, UNCITRAL and Hungarian Arbitration Rules. She was a visiting researcher at Cardozo School of Law (New York), Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution. Dr. Grosu regularly publishes on various ADR related topics, invited as speaker to conferences and organizes international events on dispute resolution. She is a trained mediator and is also involved in mediation training related activities. She is a VIAC Community Ambassador for Hungary and Senior Fellow of Weinstein International Foundation.

Prof Dr Daniel Gruenbaum

Professor of Private International Law, International Litigation and Arbitration at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil. LL.B (2004) and Dr. iur. (2009) from the University of São Paulo (USP). Konrad-Zweigert-Fellow (2009) and Visiting Fellow (2013) at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, in Hamburg. Member of the Brazil Bar Association (since 2005), with extensive experience as counsel in domestic and international commercial disputes. Member of the American Society of International Law, Deutsch-Brasilianische Juristenvereinigung, Freunde des Hamburger Max-Planck-Instituts für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht e.V., and Asociación Americana de Derecho Internacional Privado (ASADIP). Fluent in Portuguese, English, French and German. Since 2010, coach of the team of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

Mr Sergio Guerrero

Associate in the International Practice Group in the Mexico City office of Haynes and Boone, LLP.
His practice focuses on Energy law, administrative law, international commercial and investment arbitration, corporate and commercial practice, involved in advising foreign and national clients in the Mexican oil and gas industry including midstream and downstream sectors and, in the power, and renewables industry, including investment and dispute resolution mechanisms for international companies participating in the Mexican Energy Sector.
Two time former Vismoot participant, currently coaching Panamerican Univesity Aguascalientes Vismoot team.

Ms Gayane Gulyan

Gayane is a dispute resolution associate at Linklaters Moscow. She has been handling international investment and commercial arbitrations, both ad hoc (including under UNCITRAL Rules) and institutional (including under ICC and LCIA rules), in cases arising from such major industry sectors as real estate, energy and financial services. Gayane studied law at National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow). She is the Honorable Mention Oralist and the Winner of the 25th Vienna Vis Moot (2018).

Ms Dilan Gumustas

Ms. Gumustas is an associate at the Dispute Resolution Department of Goksu Law, a well-known international law firm in Istanbul. She primarily focuses on international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration, and commercial litigation. She advises major international and Turkish contractors, infrastructure, and banking industries. Graduated as the first-ranked student from Bahçeşehir University Law School, Dilan participated in the “26th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot” as an oralist.

Mr Yavuz Selim Günay

The founding partner of Günay & Erdoğan Attorneys at Law, Yavuz Selim Günay has extensive experience in law of contracts, international commercial law, dispute resolution and arbitration, mergers and acquisitions, technology law, defense and aerospace law. Yavuz Selim Günay provides strategic legal services to his local and international clients. With an LL.B Degree from Bilkent University, and LL.M Degrees from both London School of Economics and Gazi University, before founding Günay&Erdoğan he served as the Head of Legal and Contracts of a leading Turkish defense and IT company. Mr. Günay currently teach technology law at Bilkent University.
Mr. Günay has acted as arbitrator and counsel for parties in numerous arbitration proceedings of different scope and nature, including domestic and international construction and energy projects, mergers, large-scale technology contracts. Günay has participated in arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, ITOTAM, ISTAC and LCIA, as well as 'ad hoc' arbitrations.
Mr. Günay has memberships in national and international organizations such as ICC Young Arbitrator's Forum, LSE Alumni Association, The British-Turkish Lawyers Association.

Mr Akash Gupta

Akash is working as an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School where he teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) courses. He completed LL.M. in International Commercial Arbitration Law from Stockholm University and graduated from Tamil Nadu National Law University, Tiruchirappalli. He serves as an Assistant Editor for Indian Review of International Arbitration (MNLU) and a Peer Review Board Member for Indian Arbitration Law Review (NLIU). In addition to academia, he has been appointed as a Sole Arbitrator in 12 disputes and Sole Conciliator in 250 disputes.

Mr Platon Guryanov

2011 UCL LLM graduate I am currently taking the position of the head of international division at the legal department of the Russian Railways. Apart from that I act as a reporter of the Maritime Arbitration Commission. In my past career I was an officer of the Ministry of Economy of my homeland and represented Russia at the UNCITRAL meetings.

Dr Philipp Habegger

Philipp Habegger has acted as counsel and arbitrator in more than one hundred and ninety international arbitral proceedings under a variety of arbitration rules, including ICC, Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution (Swiss Rules), LCIA, SIAC, Vienna, AAA/ICDR, Stockholm Arbitration Institute and UNCITRAL, involving the substantive laws of Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, England, Russia, India, Turkey, Panama, Liechtenstein, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Estonia, Egypt and New York, as well as the UN Sales Convention (CISG) and the UNIDROIT Principles. He has been involved in disputes arising, inter alia, out of joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, shareholders’ agreements, international sales and related transactions, agency and distribution, licensing, franchising, construction and engineering projects, across a wide range of industries including telecommunications, automobiles, aviation, railways, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, food, defence, machinery, oil & gas, energy, construction, and commodity trading. Philipp Habegger is the immediate past president of the Arbitration Court of the Swiss Chambers' Arbitration Institution (which administers the Swiss Rules). He is a former court member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2009-2015) and a former vice chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association and vice president of the LCIA European Users' Council.

Dr Pascal Hachem

Pascal Hachem a Zurich based an attorney at law. He is a member of Bär & Karrer's Dispute Resolution, Internal Investigations and Cross-border Proceedings departments and advises clients on general corporate and commercial matters.
Pascal Hachem has been involved in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations and commercial litigations covering such industries as gas, software, engineering, automotive, medical devices and banking. Cases concerned one-off Transactions, long term delivery contracts and distributorship agreements. In addition, Pascal Hachem conducts internal investigations on behalf of company boards and supervisory authorities, in particular in the financial sector, and represents clients in front of domestic and foreign regulatory and prosecutorial authorities.
Pascal Hachem holds a law degree from Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg i.Br. (Germany) and a doctorate from the University of Basel. He has published books and contributions to commentaries, collected works and law journals in the fields of sales and contract law. In addition, he has worked as lecturer, both in Switzerland and abroad and frequently speaks at international conferences on his areas of expertise. In the fields of international sales and contract law Pascal Hachem also served as Rapporteur for the CISG Advisory Council for Opinion 10, addressing penalty and liquidated damages clauses in CISG contracts.

The Lord David Hacking

Barrister-at-Law and International Arbitrator

Mr Till Hackstein

Till Hackstein is an associate in the Frankfurt office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

His practice focuses on international and domestic arbitration, litigation, and enforcement matters. Recent work highlights include acting as Respondent’s Counsel in a Post-M&A ICC Arbitration between Belgian and German companies with an amount in dispute of ca. EUR 500 million, assisting a leading car manufacturer in connection with emissions-related proceedings and assisting the Republic of Argentina in the defense against several actions brought by investors of government bonds in Germany.

Till holds a law degree from the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and completed his legal clerkship with the Higher Regional Court Frankfurt (Main). In the course of his practical training, Till worked at various courts and government agencies, as well as in private practice with international law firms in Germany, London, and Sydney. He is a member of the Bar in Frankfurt am Main.

Till is a representative of Cleary Gottlieb in the DIS | ERA pledge gender champion initiative aiming to promote greater gender diversity in respect to arbitrator appointments. He is also a member of the German initiative of young arbitration practitioners (DIS 40), the Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG), the ICC Young Arbitrator Forum (ICC YAF) and a mentee in the 2021–2022 Young ITA mentoring program of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration.

Till joined Cleary Gottlieb in 2020.

Dr Ralf Hafner

After seven years with a major Anglo-American law firm in its Dusseldorf and London offices, Ralf has been working with ADVANT Beiten as a partner since January 2011. He is the current Head of Dispute Resolution there. Ralf particularly advises his national and international clients on complex, international disputes, mostly post-M&A cases as well as other corporate, commercial and contractual matters and represents them in arbitration and state court proceedings, including proceedings for the enforcement of arbitral awards. Besides numerous civil court proceedings Ralf has been involved in more than 60 arbitration cases governed by the arbitration rules of DIS, ICC, LCIA, SCC and UNCITRAL or ad-hoc either as Counsel, arbitrator (also sole and chairman) or as secretary of the arbitral tribunal.
Ralf was admitted to the German Bar in 2004; the same year when he earned a doctoral degree from the University of Freiburg (Dr. iur.). In 2008 Ralf graduated with a master's degree in Construction Law & Dispute Resolution from King's College London. Since 2011 he teaches Business Law at the Georg-Simon-Ohm-Institute for Management of the University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg. In 2012 he was a Visiting Lecturer for European & International Law at King's College London.

Miss Atefeh Haghighatmesbahi

Bachelor of Law,
Master of intellectual property Law of University of Tehran.
Working in international Hatami Law Firm since2016 to2020.
Master student of International Justice Of GCU.

Dr Wolfgang Hahnkamper

Wolfgang Hahnkamper practises as an Independent Arbitrator from Vienna, after retiring from the Austrian bar where he served as Rechtsanwalt/advocate in domestic and international disputes. He is Past President of ArbAut - Austrian Arbitration Association and Board Member of the Verein (Association) which runs the VIS Moot.

Prof Thomas Halket

A Chartered Arbitrator, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and a member of arbitral panels around the world, Thomas Halket has been an arbitrator for over 30 years. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School where he teaches courses on International Arbitration and IP transactions. Earlier in his career, he was a partner at Bingham McCutchen and prior to that a partner and co-chair of the Technology and the Emerging Company Group of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed.
He is the 2019 President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the London Court of International Arbitration, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators in London and a member of the International Arbitration Club of New York. He is a frequent speaker and writer on ADR matters. He co-authored and edited a book on the arbitration of international IP disputes, now in its second edition, and is a co-author of a book on the arbitration of IP disputes in the U.S. He holds a law degree from the Columbia Law School and bachelors and masters degrees from the MIT.
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Mr Peter Halprin

Peter A. Halprin is a partner in Pasich LLP’s New York office. Peter represents commercial policyholders in complex insurance coverage matters with a focus on recovery strategies in relation to cyber crime, natural disasters, professional services, regulatory investigations, and technology disputes. Over the course of his career, Peter has arbitrated, litigated, and mediated claims involving a broad range of insurance policies and recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance proceeds for policyholders.

Peter acts as counsel for U.S. and foreign companies in domestic and international arbitrations. He has served as both party-appointed and sole arbitrator, and is a Member of the AAA National Roster of Arbitrators, the CPR Institute’s Distinguished Panels of Neutrals (including the Insurance-Policyholder Coverage Panel), and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre’s Reserve Panel of Arbitrators.

Peter is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law, teaching International Commercial Arbitration, and Coach of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Team. Peter is also a member of CPR's Y-ADR Steering Committee.

He has authored numerous publications including "Ethics in International Arbitration."

Mr Hayder Asad Hameed

Hayder Asad Hameed is head of arbitration department at Al-Nesoor Law Firm one of the largest law firms in Iraq. He has participated twice in the 26th and 27th annual of the Vis Moot as a student and in the 28th and 29th annual as a coach of Al-Iraqia University Team. Hayder has been awarded as best coach in the last Middel East Pre-Moot. Futher, Al-Iraqia team won twice in the raw the 1st and 2nd annual national Iraqi commercial arbitration competition.

Mr Mino Han

I work in the International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution team of Bae, Kim & Lee LLC. My main focus lies in overseas construction and energy disputes. The relevant projects I worked on includes power plant projects, refinery projects, high rise buildings, convention centres and infrastructure projects. I have been acting as counsel in arbitration cases under the auspices of the ICC, SIAC and KCAB. Across a number of different disputes, I have the experience of cross-examining a technical expert, a quantum expert, a legal expert, and fact witnesses.

Mr Christopher Hancock

Christopher is a graduate of Cambridge University and Harvard Law School. He has been in practice at the bar of England and Wales since 1985, as a tenant at what was 3 Essex Court and is now Twenty Essex. He took silk in 2000, became a recorder in 2004, and became a deputy High Court judge in 2008. He is a supporting member of the LMAA, on the board of the Caspian Arbitration Society, as well as being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a CEDR accredited mediator. He is a bencher of the Middle Temple.

Mr Grant Hanessian

Grant Hanessian is an independent arbitrator and neutral in New York, specializing in international, investor-state and complex commercial disputes and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, where he teaches the International Commercial Arbitration and LL.M. International Arbitration Practicum courses. Prior to June 2020, he was a partner at Baker McKenzie, where he practiced for 33 years, and served as global co-head of the firm’s International Arbitration Practice, head of its International Arbitration Practice in North America and head of its New York office Litigation Department. Mr. Hanessian is currently the U.S. member of the International Chamber of Commerce's International Court of Arbitration in Paris and a member of the ICC's Commission on Arbitration, the American Arbitration Association—International Centre for Dispute Resolution's International Advisory Committee, Vice President (for U.S.) of the London Court of Arbitration's North American Users’ Council, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre's User's Council, the International Arbitration Club of New York, CPR’s Arbitration Committee, the New York City Bar Association's Committee on International Commercial Disputes, Club Español del Arbitraje, the Panel of Recognized International Market Experts in Finance (P.R.I.M.E.) Arbitration Rules Drafting Committee and was a founding board member of the New York International Arbitration Center.

Mr Elliot Haney

I am an associate attorney in the Tampa office of Cotney Construction Law, LLP, focusing on construction litigation and commercial dispute resolution. I attended the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where I was a member of the 2019 Vis Moot Team. That year, our team came in 2nd place in the Florida Bar ILS Richard DeWitt Memorial Vis Pre-Moot, 1st Place in the Shanghai Pre-Moot (as an individual, I was awarded honorary mention best oralist), and reached the round-of-8 in the Vis East Moot in Hong Kong (as an individual, I was awarded 2nd-runner up Best Oralist). Now, as a barred attorney, I regularly arbitrate cases dealing with complex construction disputes and other commercial matters.

I owe a great deal to my time studying for and competing in the Vis Moot, and look forward to participating as an arbitrator in the future.

Mr Philipp Hanusch

Philipp is a Special Counsel in Baker McKenzie's International Arbitration team in Hong Kong. Philipp specialises in international commercial arbitration with a focus on shareholder, joint venture and M&A disputes.

He has represented parties in arbitrations under the rules of the HKIAC, ICC, CIETAC, VIAC, ICDR, and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. He has been repeatedly appointed as sole arbitrator in ICC arbitrations.

Philipp is a member of the IBA Asia-Pacific Arbitration Group, AFIA, ArbAut, the Law Committee of AmCham in Hong Kong, and the Europe Committee of the HKGCC. He is a regular contributor to Baker McKenzie’s moderated arbitration blog, www.globalarbitrationnews.com.

Dr Richard Happ

Dr. Happ first participated in the Moot 1996/7 as coach of the team of Kiel University (until 1999). Since then he has participated nearly a dozen times. He currently is a partner of Luther lawfirm in Hamburg, Germany, and head of the firm's arbitration practice (which is listed in the GAR100) He focusses on energy arbitrations and arbitrations involving states and state entities. He also frequently sits as arbitrator and enjoys writing and lecturing. He for several years is ranked/listed in WhosWho Commercial Arbitratio, Chambers, Legal500, JUVE and BestLawyers (in 2014).

Ms Lia Harizanova

Lia Harizanova is an attorney in the State of New York and Bulgaria, and a solicitor in England & Wales. She graduated from Sofia University (Bulgaria) in 2018. Earned an LL.M. in International Business and Economic Law from Georgetown University (USA) in 2019, graduating first in her class, with honors and a certificate in Arbitration and International Dispute Resolution. She focuses in international transactions and disputes in the sphere of Energy & Infrastructure.

Since 2014 Lia has competed, coached, and judged in the international competitions Telders, Philip C. Jessup, and the Willem C. Vis Moot. Lia has been a coach for Sofia University since the 28th Willem C. Vis Moot.

Ms May Haroun

May Haroun is currently a Master 2 candidate in private international law and international trade law at université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas. In addition to her Master, she is completing a university diploma (diplôme d’université) in business litigation with the law firm Bredin Prat and université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas. She obtained her Bachelor in Lebanese law and French law and her Master 1 in business law at université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth (L3 at université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). She participated in the 27th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot and this year she participated in the Concours d’arbitrage international de Paris (CAIP). May did several internships in arbitration, in Paris at K&L Gates and in Beirut at Alem & Associates, she will be joining the arbitration department of Clyde & Co in Paris this year.

Mr Douglas Harrison

Douglas Harrison is an independent international commercial arbitrator and mediator at Arbitration Place in Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the CPR Panels of Distinguished Neutrals, and is on the arbitration rosters of ICDR Canada and ICC Canada, among others. He has recently served as tribunal chair, as a party-appointed arbitrator and as a sole arbitrator in ad hoc arbitrations and in arbitrations under the SCC Rules and the ICDR Rules, in matters involving the pharmaceutical industry, the energy sector and financial institutions. He is the chair of the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society and the Director of the Society's Gold Standard Course on Commercial Arbitration. He is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and has recently acted as an expert witness on Canadian law in courts in the United States and the Netherlands. He is a Co-Chair of the University Tribunal of the University of Toronto. For over 30 years, Mr. Harrison was with Stikeman Elliott LLP in Toronto conducting a broad corporate-commercial litigation and arbitration practice acting for clients from around the world in a wide range of industries. He is listed in Who's Who Legal (Canada) for Arbitration (Recommended), in Lexpert for Commercial Arbitration (Repeatedly Recommended), and in Best Lawyers in Canada for Alternate Dispute Resolution, Class Action Litigation, Corporate and Commercial Litigation, International Arbitration, and Product Liability Law. He has also been internationally recognized as an expert in Global Product Liability Law and Litigation by Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides. He has been a sessional lecturer on trial advocacy at Queen's University Faculty of Law in Kingston, Ontario. Prior to practicing law, Mr. Harrison was a sports journalist based in Toronto and Paris.

Mr Michael Hartleben

German dual-qualified lawyer (NY and Russia) and General Counsel for DSI Underground Group with a commercial mindset and ten years of international legal experience gained from demanding in-house PE environments and private practice firms.

I provide advice and business support on a diverse range of multijurisdictional transactions, company operations, compliance, insurance and complex disputes, and I have successfully built legal teams, as well as collaborated with overseas partners on group matters.

Direct and approachable communicator, I enjoy working with people from all walks of life and thrive on solving challenges that achieve strategic and operational goals. I possess high levels of organisational intelligence and cross-cultural agility and ensure exceptional quality and compliance standards that protect businesses against legal, regulatory and reputational risks.

Over the last two years, I have led global legal, compliance, IP and insurance matters at DSI Underground, as well as handling holding company secretarial matters. With 25 production sites and 2,000 staff in 70 countries, I work with common law frameworks and civil jurisdictions, aligning local and regional requirements to global objectives, with specific interests in the Americas, Australia, Indonesia, Europe and the CIS.

Fluent in English, German and Russian.

Ms Marlena Harutyunyan

Marlena Harutyunyan is a senior associate at Archipel, Geneva where she focuses her practice on international arbitration and litigation.
Marlena mainly represents and advises clients in arbitration proceedings, both commercial and investment, before major arbitral institutions (ICC, ICSID, LCIA, etc.) She has experience in different industry sectors, including construction, aviation, energy, oil and gas, as well as in industrial risks, defective products and post-acquisition disputes.

Marlena also acts for clients in complex commercial litigation.

Prior to joining Archipel, she practiced international arbitration and litigation in the Paris and New York offices of Baker McKenzie and at De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés in Paris.

Marlena is admitted to practice in Paris. She holds a Master’s degree in Commercial Law (cum laude) and a Magistère de Juriste d’Affaires—D.J.C.E. (cum laude) from the Université Panthéon-Assas—Paris II (2012).

She is member of CFA40, Arbitral Women, Young Arbitrators Forum and ICDR Young & International.

Marlena is a native Armenian speaker and works in English, French and Russian. She also has a good knowledge of Ukrainian.

Ms Amina Hasanica

My name is Amina Hasanović. I graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Zenica. Currently I am doing my master studies in business law at the University of Zenica. I participated in the Vis Moot in 2019 and made it to the semi-finals. I also received an honorable mention as an individual oralist. After finishing my studies, I worked in a law firm Karanović & Partners as a junior associate. At the moment I work as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Zenica.

Dr Sven Hasenstab

Sven is a Partner at BRANDI, a full-service-law firm with six offices in Germany and international offices in Paris and Beijing.

Sven focuses his practice on on M&A and Real Estate transactions. Further, he also reprensents clients before State Courts and Arbitral Tribunals on post-M&A disputes, Real Estate and infrastructure projects and distribution arrangements. As a state appointed Notary Sven assists in all kind of real estate and Corporate Notarizations as well as on Wealth Successions.

Sven regularly acts as an Arbitrator in Institutional and Ad-hoc Proceedings.


He is a lecturer on Arbitration and Legal Writing at Leibniz University of Hannover and an academic author on Civil Procedure, Corporate Law and Legal Profession.

Ms Janine Häsler

I participated in the Willem C. Vis Moot Court in 2012/13 on behalf of University of Bern. After various traineeships, I passed the bar exam and rejoined the dispute resolution practice of Switzerland's largest law firm, Lenz & Staehelin, in 2017. Since then, I completed my LL.M. degree at National University of Singapore in 2020 and joined Schellenberg Wittmer's arbitration practice in the beginning of this year.

Ms Diyar Hassan

Diyar
lawyer. I participated in this competition 3 years ago, two years ago, as a student, and the last as a coach. And now I'm advisor for all iraqi team

Mr Michael Hassard

Graduate of the University of Toronto and Hofstra Law School. Two-time mootie and an arbitrator ever since. Legal interests revolve around the application of mediation and dispute resolution in civil litigation.

Prof Nikitas Hatzimihail

Professor Nikitas Hatzimihail teaches contract and commercial law, private international law, international commercial arbitration, ADR and comparative law at the University of Cyprus, where he has held senior administrative positions including Chair of the Department of Law. He previously worked as a senior researcher at the University of Brussels (U.L.B.) and has lectured or visited in several U.S., European and Asian universities. Prof Hatzimihail studied law at the University of Athens, where he was called to the Bar, and obtained his doctorate in legal science from Harvard Law School. He has written on the history, theory and doctrine of international commercial law, private international law and alternative dispute resolution, as well as on comparative law and the common law of contract. He is a CEDR accredited mediator and has served as consultant in several international commercial arbitration cases.

Mr Florian Haugeneder

Florian Haugeneder is a partner at KNOETZL, a leading firm in arbitration, litigation, alternative dispute resolution, business crime, compliance and corporate crisis management. Before co-founding KNOETZL in 2016, he was the head of the international arbitration practice of a large international law firm.
Florian has extensive experience as counsel and arbitrator in institutional and ad-hoc arbitration proceedings, including under the DIS, DIA, ICC, ICSID, KCAB, LCIA, SCC, UNCITRAL and VIAC Rules. A special focus of his practice is the international law on investment protection and investment arbitration. Florian has particualr expertise in construction and engineering, energy, banking and corporate disputes.
Florian lectures at the University of Vienna on international arbitration and frequently speaks and publishes on international arbitration and investment protection.
He holds a degree from the University of Vienna and a Master's degree from King’s College London. Florian is fluent in German (mother tongue), English and French.

Ms Fiona Heald

Fiona Heald is a lawyer in Toronto, Canada. Fiona Hickman (as she then was) served on the Osgoode Hall Vis team in 2003 and 2004; she helped with coaching in 2005.

Since 2014, Fiona has been an arbitration secretary for international arbitrations under various rules, including LCIA, ICDR, ICC, and UNCITRAL. She has experience with both institutional and ad hoc arbitrations.

Fiona worked at two of Canada's leading law firms, and then two banks. Her experience includes negotiating and drafting for secured lending deals that were: multi-jurisdictional; multi-currency; multi-tranche; secured by various types of collateral; multi-borrower; syndicated; and/or customized to resolve competing priorities between lenders, borrowers, guarantors, and third parties.

Fiona has experience with industries such as banking, other financing, technology, software development, telecom, oil and gas, pharma, manufacturing, retail, JVs, and public sector. She has worked on financial transactions, supplier contracts, contracts for goods, service contracts, corporate deal-making and operations, corporate governance, compliance, and resolving disputes.

Fiona has a Masters in Business Administration (M.B.A.), a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B.), and a Master of Laws (LL.M.). In her spare time, she passed exams for CIArb (Fellow), Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt level), and project management.

Dr Peter Heink

1995 German Abitur
1996-2002 Law Student Universität Tübingen
2003-2005 1st and 2nd German Staatsexamen in Law
2005-2008 German Doctor of Laws
2008-2019 Lawyer Wüterich Breucker Rechtsanwälte Stuttgart
Since 2019 Co-Founder and Partner HEINK Rechtsanwälte
Arbitrator at the German Institution of Arbitration
Member of the associations internal tribunal German Fieldhockey Federation (DHB)
Head of the associations internal tribunal Baden-Württemberg Fieldhockey Federation (HBW)
2008 Certified Specialist Real Estate and Construction Law
2017 Master of Business Engineering; International Construction: Practice and Law
Arbitrator Pre-Moot 2014
Arbitrator Pre-Moot 2015
Arbitrator Pre-Moot 2016
Arbitrator Vis Moot 2015 - 2019 (written)

Mr Glenn Hendrix

Glenn Hendrix is the Chair of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, with offices in Atlanta and Washington DC. He has served as an counsel or arbitrator in numerous international arbitration proceedings and is also experienced in litigation ancillary to such proceedings.

Mr. Hendrix is recognized each year by The International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration (published by the Global Arbitration Review), Chambers, and The Best Lawyers in America, .

Mr. Hendrix is the founding president of the Atlanta International Arbitration Society (AtlAS). He is active in the American Bar Association, serving as the ABA’s representative to the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law and as a member of the ABA House of Delegates. He is a past Chair of the ABA’s Section of International Law and has chaired the ABA’s annual dispute resolution conference in Moscow since 2009. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Glenn has authored numerous pieces on international commercial dispute resolution, including chapters in International Commercial Arbitration Practice in the 21st Century, International Litigation Strategies & Practice Private Law, Private International Law & Judicial Cooperation in the EU-US Relationship, and Assessing the Value of Law in Transition Economies.

Mr Campbell Herbert

Campbell is a senior associate based in the London office of McDermott Will & Emery where he practices international arbitration and public international law. He holds an LLB (Hons (First)) and a BCom from Victoria University of Wellington, an LLM (Hons (First)) from the University of Auckland, and is a PhD candidate at the Grotius Centre at Leiden University where his research focuses on the interface between investor-state dispute settlement and sovereignty. He previously coached teams from City University Hong Kong, Victoria University of Wellington, and the University of Auckland. Campbell is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Mr Axel Benjamin Herzberg

Axel Benjamin HERZBERG is dual-qualified in both Germany, as well as England and Wales. He is a founding partner at BODENHEIMER in Berlin, Germany, where he primarily handles international arbitration cases, both as counsel and arbitrator. Previous career milestones included a position as Deputy Counsel with the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, as well as associate with a major international firm in Berlin. Mr Herzberg studied law at the universities of Passau, Geneva, Munich, Freiburg, Brussels (ULB), and London (Queen Mary/UCL; LL.M. in International Business Law "with merit"). He is a veteran of the Vis Moot, achieving a rare triple distinction as not only a successful oralist in the 2007 final of the 14th Vienna Vis Moot ("Winner of the Moot", Frédéric Eisemann Award), but also as winner of the awards for best memoranda for Claimant and Respondent (Pieter Sanders Award, Werner Melis Award).

Dr Rene-Alexander Hirth

Graduated from Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen (Germany) in 1988, PhD 1991, admitted to the German bar 1993, resident registered foreign lawyer in Singapore from 1994 to 1998 and non-resident foreign lawyer until 2015; practising as equity partner in several midsize and big German law firms with established practices in Asia; current position since 2018: equity partner with BUSE, Germany (Stuttgart office); practice focus: domestic and international litigation and arbitration (as counsel and as arbitrator), international corporate and commercial agreements, cross border corporate transactions [M&A]; regional focus: cross-border transactions between Germany (Europe) and Asian countries, in particular South East Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia), P.R. China and Hong Kong, India, Australia and New Zealand; participation as arbitrator or party counsel in ad-hoc, CIETAC, DIS, HKIAC, ICC, SIAC, SCC, Swiss Chambers and VIAC arbitration proceedings.

Ms Holly Hoch

Ph.D. Candidate - University of St. Gallen
VIS Moot Alumni 2013

Mr David Holloway

Barrister (England and Wales) Arbitrator (FCIArb) and Accredited Mediator (IMI).
General Editor, International Arbitration Law Review.
Partner and Head of Advocacy at Al Tamimi & Co. DIFC. Dubai

Mr Bill Holohan

Bill Holohan, BCL., LLM, F.C.I.L.S., F.C.I.Arb., A.M. (CEDR, CIArb & MII), C.Ed., A.C., Solicitor, Notary Public & Senior Counsel.
Former Chairman Irish Branch Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2017).
Former Director Mediators' Institute of Ireland.
Council Member - Law Society of Ireland.
Member Law Society Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee & Chair Professional Indemnity Insurance Committee.
Member Irish Commercial Mediation Association.

Honours BCL, UCC, 1980; Honours LLB, UCC, 1983; Solicitor & Attorney, Law Society of Ireland, 1983; Notary Public (Ireland), 2000; FCILS: Fellow of the Centre International Legal Studies Salzburg, 1996; FCIArb: FCIArb: Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, 1998; First Class Honours, with Distinction, Masters in Advanced Legal Practice, University of Northumbria, 2018,

Bill Holohan is an Irish Solicitor who was one of the first solicitors in Ireland to be granted a Patent of Precedence in 2020 entitling him to use the title Senior Counsel. He is also an experienced ADR practitioner, primarily in the areas of arbitration and mediation. He is a former Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in Ireland and a former Director of the Mediators Institute of Ireland. He is a member of the Council of the Law Society of Ireland and is Chairman of the Law Society's Professional Indemnity insurance Committee and a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. In addition to practice as a solicitor, is also a Notary public, an Irish Trademark agent and an EU Trade Mark Practitioner. He is the author of nine books on a variety of legal subjects enclosing insolvency, bankruptcy, professional practice and professional indemnity insurance.

Mr Jörn Hombeck

Jörn Hombeck, ist Rechtsanwalt in der auf Dispute Resolution spezialisierten Kanzlei Hanefeld Rechtsanwälte Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH.
Dort vertritt er nationale und internationale Unternehmen als Parteivertreter in Schieds- und Gerichtsverfahren. Daneben ist er regelmäßig als Schiedsrichter tätig.

Jörn Hombeck hat einen Master of Laws (LL.M.) an der University of Auckland, Neuseeland, erworben und zuvor an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelm Universität Bonn Jura studiert.
Er war vor seiner Tätigkeit bei Hanefeld Rechtsanwälte für eine internationale Großkanzlei in Hamburg als Rechtsanwalt im Bereich des Immobilienwirtschaftsrechts tätig. Jörn Hombeck spricht Deutsch und Englisch.

Mr Alexander Horn

Alexander Horn is an attorney in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Munich office. He focuses on Class Actions, Transnational Litigation and International Arbitration.

Dr Günther Horvath

Guenther J. Horvath is a former partner and founder of the International Arbitration Group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Vienna and is known for his wide range of expertise. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in more than hundred high-profile disputes and developed his skills as an “outstanding strategist and heavyweight in ICC and Vienna Rules arbitration”.
Günther's practice focuses on international commercial arbitration with an emphasis on energy and corporate disputes as well as industrial engineering.
Other professional roles include
• President of the Vienna International Arbitral Center (VIAC)
• Former member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration
• Past-Chair of the IBA Committee on Closely Held and Growing Business Enterprises
• Chairman Emeritus of Lex Mundi Ltd.
• Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the SIAC (Singapore International Arbitral Centre), ASA (Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage), CIETAC (China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission Hong Kong Arbitration Center) and DIS (German Insitution of Arbitration)
• (Co-)Author of numerous articles and books on International Arbitration, including
 - Guerilla Tactics in International Arbitration (Kluwer Law 2013)
 - Arbitrator and Counsel: the Double-hat Dilemma (Transnational Dispute Management 2013)
 - Cost in International Arbitration (Linde 2008)

Mr James Hosking

James Hosking has over 25 years of international dispute resolution experience. Immediately prior to co-founding New York dispute resolution boutique Chaffetz Lindsey, he was a partner in Clifford Chance’s New York office. James is a recognized expert in international arbitration, having handled more than 100 disputes as counsel, and involving the rules of all the leading institutions, as well as the UNCITRAL Rules. His recent cases have involved energy/power projects, corporate acquisitions, construction/engineering, mining, licensing, JV/shareholder disputes, mining, and investment treaty claims. James also sits as an arbitrator, having been appointed in over 30 proceedings, with experience as president, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and emergency arbitrator. He is co-chair of the ICC Task Force on Emergency Arbitration Proceedings, on the AAA’s International Advisory Board, and a Fellow of the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand. James is the co-author of A Guide to the ICDR International Arbitration Rules (OUP, 2010 & 2019) and was involved in drafting the revised 2014 rules. In addition to his international arbitration practice, James also represents clients in US commercial litigation. James previously practiced in New Zealand.

Ms Daryna Hrebeniuk

Daryna Hrebeniuk is a foreign associate and a Warsaw seated member of the Munich Arbitration team at Hogan Lovells. Her particular expertise lies in commercial and investment arbitration, and her main focus is in the CIS and Eastern Europe

Mr Jaroslav Hroch

Jaroslav is a lawyer at SimpleTax & SimpleLaw (CZ) focusing mainly on business law, investments and crypto. He represented Masaryk University (Brno, CZ) in 26th Vis Moot.

Mr Michal Hrušovský

Michal Hrušovský participated at the VIS MOOT as a student in 2009 and 2010. He studied law at the Comenius University in Bratislava and graduated in 2010 (Master degree), in 2012 he reached doctor of law title (“JUDr.”) and in 2016 PhD. Since 2010 he worked in a law firm PROLEGAL, s. r. o. as a law trainee (3 year mandatory traineeship). In 2013 he took the Slovak Bar Examination and from January 2014 he is a member of the Slovak Bar Association. He cooperated with law firm Ernst & Young Law s. r. o. as a Senior Associate for 4 years. At present he is an attorney in Bratislava cooperating with the law firm Kinstellar s. r. o. and devotes mainly to the civil and commercial law, litigation and arbitration. At the same time he is a lecturer and external PhD student at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Law Faculty, where he teaches the courses concerning private international law and arbitration in English.

Mr Adrian Hughes

Adrian Hughes QC practises construction and commercial law from 39 Essex Street chambers in London, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. His core practice involves construction and engineering cases and major energy and infrastructure projects but he also handles a wide variety of international and domestic commercial work including shipping, trade, insurance and financial services.

Much of his work has an international element and involves advising and representing foreign clients. He has a longstanding connection with China and other parts of Asia and frequently undertakes international arbitration and dispute resolution work for foreign parties in London and all the major international centres.

Recent arbitrations he has conducted as counsel during the course of the last two years have involved a mining project in Indonesia (SIAC), a desalination plant in Algeria (SIAC), a power plant in Iraq (ICC London), an ethylene plant in Saudi Arabia (LCIA), a highways project in Hong Kong (HKIAC) and several shipbuilding and ship financing cases (LCIA and LMAA).

He sits regularly as an Arbitrator on international disputes. He also chairs and sits on Dispute Boards for international construction and infrastructure projects. He is a recent past Chairman of the United Kingdom Society of Construction Law.

Contact email: adrian.hughes@39essex.com

Mr David Hunt

David’s practice focuses on international arbitration, with a particular emphasis on investor-state disputes. He is a go-to lawyer for clients with complex international disputes.
David has particular expertise in the Russia/CIS region and has acted against multiple states in the region in relation to claims arising out of the banking, construction, mining and telecommunications industries. He also has advised clients in relation to commercial arbitrations arising out of investments in this region. David also has particular experience of the telecommunication sector, having represented clients in numerous commercial and investor-state arbitrations arising out of investments in this sector.

Before joining the firm David worked in the London and Singapore offices of White & Case.

Mr Adam Hyams

Adam is a lawyer at the UK Department for International Trade and provides legal support on a range of international trade law matters, including in relation to the WTO and development of free trade agreements, and has participated in a number of negotiations. Prior to joining the Department, he also practiced financial services law in a large corporate law firm in New Zealand.

Ms Iuliana Iancu

Iuliana Iancu is Counsel at Hanotiau & van den Berg in Brussels, a firm she joined in 2012. She has acted as arbitral secretary or assistant to tribunals in a number of high-stakes, high-value and complex international investment and commercial arbitrations, both ad hoc and under a variety of arbitration rules, spanning various industry sectors (banking, energy and natural resources, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, M&A). Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Iancu worked in a leading law firm in Bucharest. Her work there focused on assisting and representing clients in a variety of disputes (joint venture, contractual, real estate, competition, regulatory) before international commercial arbitral tribunals and domestic courts.
Ms. Iancu holds an undergraduate law degree from the University of Bucharest and an LL.M. from Columbia University, New York Ms. Iancu regularly speaks on arbitration related topics and is involved in a number of international arbitration groups. She is admitted to practice in Bucharest and is registered with the Brussels Bar. She speaks English, French and Romanian.

Mr Marlon Ieiri

Marlon Ieiri’s practice focus is construction law, representing national and international clients in public and private engineering, construction and infrastructure projects. His works as a lawyer include advice on contracting strategies, drafting and negotiation of construction contracts, legal project management and dispute resolution (arbitration and ADRs).
He has assisted clients in private projects involving the construction of gas pipelines, oil refineries, FPSO, ports, shipyard, iron ore plants, iron ore pipeline, steel mill, pulp mill, roads, industries, airport, powerplants, hotels and real estate. His experience also includes public projects such as concession of airports and federal roads.
He is a project manager professional (PMP) certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI). He is a member of: the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF); the Society of Construction Law (SCL); the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE); the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb); the Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA); and the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr).
He has a bachelor’s degree in law from the State University of Londrina (UEL); a master’s degree in European union law from Carlos III de Madrid University; and a master's degree in international trade law from Paris X University.
Marlon speaks Portuguese, English, Spanish and French.

Mr Efemena Iluezi-Ogbaudu

Efemena Iluezi-Ogbaudu is a Nigerian-trained Lawyer and an LL.M in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) Candidate at the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement. Prior to this, he worked in the Dispute Resolution Practice Group of a foremost Nigerian law firm and routinely represented domestic and international clients before courts and arbitral tribunals, most notably an ICC arbitration arising from a Ports Concession Agreement between an agency of the Nigerian Government and a private concessionaire.

With a background in legal education having served as a lecturer at the Nigerian Law School and a knack for law reform as evidenced by his role as Interim Coordinator at the Justice Reform Project, Efemena combines professional excellence with measurable social impact.

Efemena is known for his exceptional wit and ability to present unique perspectives and, as proof of his excellence, was recently shortlisted for the 2020 Future Awards Africa Prize for Lawyers and the Africa Legal Awards’ Private Practice Most Promising Newcomer Prize . He is an excellent advocate and led his team to victory at the Lagos Court of Arbitration International Commercial Arbitration Moot for Law Firms while clinching the Best Advocate Prize.

Mr Siddhant Indrajit

1. Associate, Customs and International Trade, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys, India
2. B.B.A. LL.B from University School of Law, IP University Delhi
3. Participant, 26th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court 2019
4. Top 32, AIAC-ICC Pre-Moot 2019
5. Coach and Judge, Philips C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition
6. Guiding Coach, Team GGSIPU(INDIA) in 28th Vis International Moot

Mr Lukas F. Innerebner

Lukas Innerebner has worked for several years in dispute resolution and transactions teams of law firms in Zurich (Baker McKenzie) and Rome (Legance), advising clients in international arbitration and court proceedings as well as cross-boarder M&A transactions and corporate reorganizations.
In 2018, Lukas completed the Geneva LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement with a thesis supervised by Prof Kaufmann-Kohler. Prior to the MIDS, he studied law in Trento (Italy) and in the Netherlands (Maastricht). He regularly publishes articles and comments on Italian and Swiss arbitration law topics.

Mr Dimitrios Ioannidis

Dimitrios Ioannidis is a partner of Roach, Ioannidis & Megaloudis LLC. and counsel to the Consulate General of Greece in Boston. He practices in the areas of international business transactions, civil litigation in trial and appellate courts in Massachusetts. He oversaw various high profile cases providing litigation intelligence gathering, corporate investigations, asset recovery, due diligence and global business intelligence in many countries. Has completed investigations for large financial institutions; was a consultant to U.S. security firms on projects including the 2004 Olympic Games. He served as a consultant to a U.S. security company on a bid with the U.S. State Department for a multi-million contract in Europe and was retained as an expert witness on several cases, including a case for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Boston and a U.K. banking institution, where he testified in London. He investigated cases for international financial institutions, public and private entities and law firms. He has experience in sovereign immunity matters, the Vienna Convention on Consular Affairs and represented multinational corporate clients on international business transactions, particularly in the areas of corporate, trade and intellectual property matters. He authored over 60 Articles on the USA legal system, on international corporate corruption and also an article on the causes of the current Greek Economic crisis.

Mr Tim Isler

Tim Isler is a Swiss qualified lawyer and works as an Associate for rothorn legal in their Zurich offices. He advises and represents clients in complex and cross-border disputes including international arbitrations, before Swiss courts, and in pre-trial negotiations. He has a special focus on contract and commercial law, and construction and sports disputes. Prior to joining rothorn legal, Tim Isler was a legal intern at Courts in Basel (Court of Appeal Basel-Stadt and Criminal Court Basel-Stadt) and at Schellenberg Wittmer in Zurich. He studied Law at the University of Basel and the University Paris X Nanterre and participated in the 26th Willem C Vis Moot Court.

Ms Iryna Ivanova

LLM candidate in Transnational Arbitration and Dispute Settlement, Sciences Po, Paris.
Prior to her LLM, Ms. Ivanova obtained her Master degree in Law from National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) and worked as an associate in international arbitration and trade practices. She competed twice in Willem C. Vis moot and has been coaching Kyiv-Mohyla team for the last two years.

Ms Ellina Izotkina

Mrs Nadja Jaisli

Nadja Jaisli co-heads Bär & Karrer's arbitration practice and specializes in international commercial arbitration and litigation. She has extensive experience in representing clients before Swiss courts and in international arbitrations (both ad hoc and institutional, primarily ICC and Swiss Rules), involving a wide array of matters. She has gained particular experience in the banking and finance, the pharmaceutical and the transportation industries and handled complex disputes arising from M&A transactions, joint ventures and shareholders' agreements, license and supply agreements as well as inheritance disputes. In addition to her work as party counsel, Nadja Jaisli regularly sits as arbitrator (in particular under ICC, Swiss, DIS and VIAC Rules).

Nadja Jaisli is a member of the Board of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) and regularly speaks and publishes in the field of international dispute resolution. She is listed in Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, Legal 500 and by Who's Who Legal in the fields of arbitration and litigation. Who's Who Legal ranked her amongst the four most highly regarded future leaders in arbitration 2018 and 2019 in Europe, listed her as a global leader in arbitration 2020 as well as a global elite thought leader in litigation 2021. In 2021 and 2022, Nadja Jaisli was awarded with the Europe Women in Business Law Award as Commercial Arbitration Lawyer of the Year.

Ms Nicole Jancova

Nicole Jančová is a judicial clerk at the District Court of Prague 1. She previously worked as an associate at Squire Patton Boggs specializing in international dispute resolution. She obtained her first master’s degree at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and her LL.M. from the Stockholm University’s International Commercial Arbitration Law Program. She is also a Ph.D candidate at Charles University in Prague. Nicole participated in the 20th Willem C. Vis Moot and 2014 FDI Moot.

Ms Jasna Jarmuschke

University of Hamburg, First State Exam 2019; Legal Traineeship at the Higher Regional Court in Schleswig, Second State Exam 2022 , Arbitrator in Pre-Moots, Participant in 23rd Willem C. Vis Moot Court for the Team University of Hamburg, Alumni of the Team of the University of Hamburg, Legal Counsel, attorney at law at Deminor litigation funding.

Dr Ole Jensen

Ole Jensen is a senior associate in the International Arbitration Group of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in London and Berlin. He acts as counsel and tribunal secretary in domestic and international arbitration proceedings under various institutional and ad hoc rules. He is the author of 'Tribunal Secretaries in International Arbitration' (OUP 2019) and an Assistant Editor for the Journal of International Arbitration. Previously, he was a research and teaching assistant at Professor Klaus Peter Berger's chair for private law, international commercial law, conflicts of law, comparative law and banking law at the University of Cologne. He is also a former Vis Moot participant and coach for the Universities of Munich and Cologne.

Ms Myriam Jerdak

I studied law at the University of Saint Joseph and at the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. I graduated with Master I in corporate law at the Saint-Joseph University of Beirut and I am currently pursuing a postgraduate bachelor at the University of Geneva. I have participated in many Vis Moot competitions as well as Pre-Moots and I am passionate about international arbitration.

Dr Nevena Jevremovic

Nevena is Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen School of Law. Her research and teaching focus on the interplay between sustainable development in commercial relationships, investment, and dispute resolution. Nevena is the author of the national monographs on Civil Procedure and Energy Law in volumes of the International Encyclopaedia of Laws. She published a dozen articles and book chapters on international dispute resolution and international commercial law. She is working on several publications on sustainable development goals in investment disputes, climate litigation, and global value chains.

Nevena is a Guest Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and was a guest lecturer at the Prince Sultan University, College of Law, Female Campus (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Faculty of Law at the University of Zenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina), International Sarajevo University (IUS), and University of Verona & CILE's Summer School, teaching courses on sales law, contract and commercial management, technology and law, and international commercial arbitration.

Nevena completed her PhD with a dissertation on "Art. 35 (1) and 35(2)(a) & (b) of the UN Convention on the International Contracts for the Sale of Goods in the context of Sustainable Development Goal 12: Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns." She holds an LL.M. in International Law from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law (2016) and an LL.M. in Civil Law in the EU from the University of Sarajevo School of Law (2015).

Mr Vishwam Jindal

Currently working as a Legal Advisor at Linklaters in London. In the past, I have worked at Pjindal Law Offices (India) on important cases before the Supreme court of India and the High court in Chandigarh. I have worked on three international arbitrations (two seated in London (LCIA) and one in Delhi (UNCITRAL)) and four arbitration disputes that reached courts. I specialised in international arbitration and mediation at university. I have participated in 4th Lawasia international moot, 2nd Shanghai arbitration moot, 9th Vis (East) and 10th DM Harish International moot court competitions as an oralist. I have been associated with the Vis moot as an arbitrator since 2012. My research papers have been published in books, e-books, journals, magazines and compendiums. I am a member of LCIA YIAG, ICC YAF, Young ICCA, AFIA and leading international mediation institutions. I edit the Journal of NLU Delhi and India Law Journal.

Mr Thomas John

Thomas is an independent international mediator, and arbitrator and legal consultant. He is also the Director of the IBA-VIAC CDRC Vienna, the world's most prestigious mediation moot competition, which uses the Willem C Vis Moot Problem for its mediations. Tom has 20 years of experience in assisting parties, counsels, states, and international organisations with (online-) resolving their international commercial, corporate, investment, construction, shipping, sports, employment, and inter-state disputes. Thomas won the Vis Moot in 2000 (U of Queensland) and has marked memoranda and served as Vis arbitrator on several occasions.

Mr Shivansh Jolly

I am currently pursuing the Masters in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) LL.M. at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (2020-2021). I graduated from Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar in 2017, and was enrolled to the Bar Council of Delhi in the same year. I worked as an Associate at Kachwaha & Partners, New Delhi - a boutique GAR 100 firm specialising in dispute resolution - for a period of three years (2017-2020). As a mooting enthusiast, I am a former participant of the 2013 edition of the Vis Moot held in Vienna, and have since had the honour to arbitrate in the last three editions of the moot. I also participated in the ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law, qualifying to the World Rounds held in Geneva, 2015 and thereafter coached teams from my university for the said Moot. My areas of interest include international commercial and investment arbitration, international trade law, and public international law.

Mr Shubham Joshi

Shubham Joshi is an Indian qualified lawyer currently pursuing his Masters in Law and Business (MLB) from Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany. An alumnus of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India, Shubham has acted as a counsel, assisting counsel, court commissioner, and tribunal secretary in various commercial disputes before the arbitration tribunals, state courts, and quasi-judicial tribunals in India. He has represented and advised clients in infrastructure, energy, finance, education, healthcare, and hospitality sectors. He is also a Visiting Faculty at several law universities in India primarily teaching Commercial Contracts, Corporate Law, Moot Court Advocacy and Legal Methods. Shubham has been a keen participant as a coach and arbitrator in Vis Vienna, Vis East, FDI, Alfred Deakin ICA, NLSTIAM, NLIU Tankha, and various other moots.

Ms Nicola Joubert

I participated in the Moot in 2002 and 2003 whilst studying at Stellenbosch University. After studying law I worked for the European Parliament and then move into the world of media, managing commercial and editorial teams of across multiple counties.

I have worked in London, Dubai, Brussels, Cape Town and am now settled in Amsterdam. I own a multinational media company which has offices in Amsterdam and London.

Mrs Emna Jouida

I am a Risk Analyst at a reputable Financial Institution working mainly in the fintech industry. I graduated in summer 2020, with a master's degree in International Business Law (with the main focus on the impact of climate change on nowadays business) from the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. I always had a keen interest in commercial law, investment law, and arbitration. For my first master thesis, I worked on the "Arbitration Clause in the Contract of Carriage of Good by Sea" while my second master thesis was about "Environmental Consideration in the International Investment Arbitration". I participated in the 27th Willem C Vis. International Commercial Arbitration Moot, and I am currently mentoring the VU team for the 28th edition.

Ms Malgorzata Judkiewicz

I am a lawyer with the Polish and Peruvian bar. I graduated from law school in Poland (University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski) and I went to Geneva to study the LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS 2014/2015). Afterwards I took a 6 month traineeship in LALIVE in Geneva, and then I joined K&L Gates office in Warsaw where I stayed for 2.5 years. Since April 2018 I have been living and working in Lima. I have experience in commercial and investment arbitration proceedings, working as a party representative or an arbitrator's assistant, and I have given classes on arbitration in different Peruvian universities. I am also an ex mootie (I participated in the 21st Vis Moot and FDI Moot 2013).