Arbitrator Listing for 29th Vis Moot

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Ms Megan Fanning

Megan Fanning is a solicitor at A&L Goodbody LLP in Dublin, Ireland. Megan works in both contentious and non-contentious construction and engineering matters. She has thrice coached the University College Dublin team. She competed twice herself at the 26th (University College Dublin) and 27th (City University of Hong Kong) Vis Moots.
Megan is an Economics graduate with a Masters in Common Law (University College Dublin) and an LLM in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (City University of Hong Kong). She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

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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.

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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.

Mr Jose Humberto Fazano Filho

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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.

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Ms Emily Feigel

Emily Feigel is a PhD candidate at the University of Münster, Germany, and research assistant to Professor Dr. Gerald Mäsch. She specializes in the fields of Private International Law and International Procedural Law. Prior to her graduation in 2021, she gained practical experience working for Professor Dr. Giesela Rühl and two international law firms. Emily participated in the 24th/14th Willem C. Vis (East) Moot and coached the University of Münster Vis Moot team in the 26th/16th Vis Moot. In the 29th/19th Vis (East) Moot she acted as a senior coach for the University of Münster and served as an arbitrator. She is also a core team member of the Moot Alumni Association (MAA).

Ms Maria Virginia Feliz Ball

Ms Ximena Fernández Noreña

I went to law school in Mexico City from 2007 to 2012 and obtained my degree in 2013, via dissertation. I was a Vis Moot participant and oralist for Universidad Panamericana campus Mexico City for two years in a row (2011-2012), and obtained my law school degree with a disertation on the Arbitrability of Bribery in International Commercial Arbitration.

I have post-graduate studies in ADR, with a focus on peace culture, and vast experience in e-commerce, e-signatures, cross-border trade and financial technology and am currently undergoing masters studies at the Universidad Católica de Cuyo. I am a professor of International Private Law and Legal English as well as Coach for Universidad Panamericana campus Mexico City.

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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.

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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 Louis Flannery

Partner co-chair of International arbitration, Mishcon de Reya. Specialist in arbitration and litigation in all industry sectors and in all fora with a particular emphasis on fraud and/or conflict law issues in litigation work. Extensive experience of international commercial arbitration and investment treaty cases, as well as substantial High Court litigation in England and many foreign jurisdictions. Undertakes advocacy before international tribunals and courts (in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the USA), including the High Court and Court of Appeal. Has advised on disputes in respect of some 50 different jurisdictions. He advises a wide range of clients including banks, governments, corporations and individuals. Types of arbitration include: joint ventures; shipping and charterparties; commodities; banking; engineering; film and television; general contract with a particular specialism in enforcement of awards, and investment treaty claims. Co-author with Professor Robert Merkin of Merkin and Flannery on the Arbitration Act (6th edition, 2020), the consultant editor of Merkin's Arbitration Law (looseleaf) regular speaker at arbitration conferences. Chartered Arbitrator (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators) 2011 (and Fellow since 2001). Associate member of the London Court of International Arbitration, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.

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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.

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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.

Mr Paul Frankenstein

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Ms Kristina Fridman

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

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Avv Filippo Frigerio

Filippo joined Portolano Cavallo in 2015. He is an attorney-at-law in Milan and earned his Law degree in 2015 at Università commerciale Luigi Bocconi of Milan.
Filippo assists both Italian and foreign clients in litigation and arbitration disputes on civil and commercial matters. He provides assistance in connection with digital media, new technologies, intermediary liability, copyright, and Italian and European legislation concerning the protection of personal data.
While completing his university studies, Filippo attended courses at the University of Minnesota Law School of Minneapolis for a period of 5 months.
From 2016 he serves as teaching assistant at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi. Between 2017 and 2018 he served as teaching assistant for the course “Fundamentals of Information Technology Law.”
In 2019, he attended the Columbia Summer Program in American Law at Amsterdam University (NL).
In 2021, Filippo attended the International Arbitration LL.M. at the University of Miami School of Law.
Filippo is also an active member of several national and international associations such as the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA), YoungICCA and LES Italy. He published several articles on the “Medialaws” Law review and on Medialaws.eu blog.
Foreign languages: English
He is a member of the Milan Bar Association (2018002554).

Ms Ana Flávia Furtado

Deputy Secretary General at CAM-CCBC (Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada)

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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.

Ms Ulrike Gantenberg

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Mr Jorge A. Garcia Arias

I am a Panamanian lawyer (admitted to practice) with more than four years of public and private professional experience. I am also a candidate to become a solicitor in England and Wales.

I possess an LLM in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution (Queen Mary University of London - QMUL). My graduation work concerned the international arbitration of corruption-tainted disputes. Moreover, I possess a course certificate on International Award Writing (QMUL) and a project management diploma (PMI standards).

I am currently working as Technical Secretary of the Presidency of the Panamanian Supreme Court.

Before that, I worked for three years as a legal and executive advisor/assistant to the Minister and Vice-minister of Governance (Panama). Furthermore, I worked one year as a legal intern in one of Panama's most prestigious law firms.

I participated in the 2019-2020 VIS Moot; and in three pre-moots that year. Since then, I have participated as an arbitrator in two Spanish-speaking international commercial arbitration moot courts (2020 - 2021).

I co-founded the Panamanian Debate Association; and have adjudicated in dozens of debate competitions. I have also coached debate and moot court teams before.

I competed three times in the most competitive Spanish-speaking debate competition globally and have also competed in two human rights moot courts.

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Mr Avneesh Garg

Avneesh Garg, an esteemed legal practitioner and a distinguished member of Bar Council of Delhi with 18 + years of enriched experience, is presently a practicing Advocate before Supreme Court of India, Delhi High Court, Delhi District Courts, National Consumer Commission and various Tribunals. Having acquired prolific exposure in civil, criminal and service matters, he also got designated as an empanelled Arbitrator with prestigious Delhi International Arbitration Centre besides being appointed as Mediator by internationally acclaimed Delhi High Court Mediation and Conciliation Centre. Being adorned with notable achievements in his professional stint, he is also a member of Singapore Arbitration Centre.

He holds Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce (Tax)(TYFT) to his academic credit. In the stretch of his career, he attained qualified expertise with prominent institutions including AIIMS, HAL, BPCL, SIDBI, Numaligarh Refinery Ltd, RBI, Freight Corridor Corporation of India, Delhi State Cancer Institute, Police Radio Training School etc.

Having obtained the first reported Supreme Court judgement to his merit in 26 years of age, the scoreboard keeps ticking up with innumerable judgements of High Court jurisdiction. His capacious experience in renowned judicial fora reflects that, for best outcome, every case independently demands an in-depth analysis and research.

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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.

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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.

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Mr Ian Gaunt

Full time maritime and commercial arbitrator
President, The London Maritime Arbitrators Association since 2017.
Barrister (non-practising).
Educated Cambridge University.
Senior VP Carnival Corporation 1997-2009; Partner London City Law Firm 1982-1997; Assistant Parliamentary counsel 1976-9.
Particular experience of shipbuilding contracts and offshore newbuilding contracts, ship sale and purchase . LMAA , LCIA and ICC arbitrations as party appointed arbitrator and third arbitrator/chairman.
Member The Baltic Exchange, German Maritime Arbitrators Association.
Panel Member: China Maritime Arbitration Commission, Shanghai International Arbitration Commission, Shanghai International Shipping Institute, Shenzhen International Court of Arbitration
Board Member Maritime London. Co-author, The Law of Shipbuilding Contracts 5th edition (2020)

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Ms Franziska Gehann

Franziska is a Research Assistant at the University of Passau (Chair of Prof. Beurskens and Prof. Solomon) and a coach of the Team Passau for the 29th Vis Moot. She participated in the 25th Vis Moot (Top 8). Franziska studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg, Geneva and Passau. She was an attendee at the Directed Studies at the Hague Academy of International Law. Her research and doctoral studies focus on private enforcement of EU antitrust law and conflict of laws.

Mr Bora Berkay Genc

As an ex mootie who has participated Vis moot for three years, and currently coaching a team mainly on procedural matters. Mr. Genc is working in an Istanbul-based law firm which focusses on international commercial and investment arbitration and M&A transactions.He is also attending academic studies and co-chairing a study group on AI and Sales Law. Mr. Genc has also two published articles on capital market and competition law.

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Mr Tim Lenny George

Tim Lenny George is one of the Coaches of the University of Bern Team.

He previously worked as a Junior Associate at BGPartner (Bern), as well as Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP (New York).

He is currently a Research Assistant at the Civil Law Institute of the University of Bern as well as a Law Clerk at BGPartner (Bern), while preparing for his Bar Exam.

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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

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Mr Farid Ghasembagloo

Farid Ghasembagloo is a Student of LLM degree in the field of International Law at the University of Judicial Since and is a researcher involved in the field of Arbitration . He has the experience of participating in Lachs Space Moot in 2019, moreover, he has been announced as the Secretary-General of the Law Association at Shahed University. He has organized several legal conferences, workshops, and two moot courts, one in the field of private law and one in criminal law at Shahed University. Furthermore, he also participated as a team member in 28th Willem C. Vis moot court in Vienna and Hong Kong. Now he continues his activities in the field of moot court with coaching and arbitrating.

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Ms Paula Gibbs

Paula is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team at Harneys in the British Virgin Islands. She studied law at University College Dublin and on exchange at The University of Melbourne. She is qualified in England & Wales, New Zealand and the British Virgin Islands. She took part in the 16th Vis Moot in 2008/09.

She has advised on commercial and investor-state adhoc and institutional arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, ICSID and Upores NCITRAL rules concerning the expropriation of a telecommunications company, financial products mis-selling claims, the purchase of a satellite, the construction of a geo-thermal power plant, a reinsurance claim arising out of the Christchurch earthquakes and shareholder disputes.

Her recent experience includes court applications in support of arbitration such as stays in favour of arbitration, interim relief such as freezing orders and enforcement of arbitration awards through recognition proceedings and liquidation.

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Ms Paula Gibbs

Paula is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team at Harneys in the British Virgin Islands. She studied law at University College Dublin and on exchange at The University of Melbourne. She is qualified in England & Wales, New Zealand and the British Virgin Islands. She took part in the 16th Vis Moot in 2008/09.

She has advised on commercial and investor-state adhoc and institutional arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, ICSID and Upores NCITRAL rules concerning the expropriation of a telecommunications company, financial products mis-selling claims, the purchase of a satellite, the construction of a geo-thermal power plant, a reinsurance claim arising out of the Christchurch earthquakes and shareholder disputes.

Her recent experience includes court applications in support of arbitration such as stays in favour of arbitration, interim relief such as freezing orders and enforcement of arbitration awards through recognition proceedings and liquidation.

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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.

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Ms Isabela Godoy

PhD student of Iintelligence and Digital Design Technologies at Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Master in Alternative Dispute Resolutions on Business Conflicts at Escola Paulista de Direito - EPD (2021). Specialist in Digital Law and Compliance by IBMEC (2020). Law graduate from Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (2018). Academic researcher on the use of Design Thinking and agile methods applied in ADRs, especially arbitration. Author of academic articles. Lawyer, Legal Designer and Assistant Case Manager at CAM-CCBC.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Mr Jorge González Carvajal

Philosophiæ Doctor in Law (Ph. D). Lawyer. Arbitrator –Panel of arbitrators of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR/AAA), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA-London), Viena International Arbitration Center (VIAC), British Virgin Island International Arbitration Centre (BVI IAC), Thailand Arbitration Center (THAC), South China International Arbitration Center (SCIA-Hong Kong), Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC-Malaysia), Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA-China), Maldives International Arbitration Centre (MIAC-Maldives), Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA-Pakistan), Saudi Center of Commercial Arbitration (SCCA-Saudi Arabia), Conciliation and Arbitration Center of the Cali Chamber of Commerce (CCYC– Colombia), Center of Arbitration of Mexico (CAM-México), Mediation Arbitration and Conciliation Center (CEMAC MASC – México), Arbitration Centre of the Caracas Chamber (CACC-Caracas) and the Business Center for Conciliation and Arbitration (CEDCA-VenAmCham-Caracas) Ordinary member of the Venezuelan Arbitration Association (AVA). International Chamber of Commerce Institute Member. Member of the Asian Academy of International Law (AAIL). Member of the Mexican Academy of Law JV (AMDJV). Founder of the Venezuelan Chapter of Energy Related Arbitration Practitioners (ENERAP). Member of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Center (LACIAC). Member of the BVI Arbitration Group. Young ITA Member - Institute for Transnational Arbitration. Member of ICDR Young & International (Y&I) Group. Ordinary member of the Pan-American Institute of Procedural Law. Master in Procedural Law. Procedural Law Specialist. Professor of Contract Law at the Catholic Andres Bello University - Venezuela. Professor or Legal Reasoning at the Monteavila University - Venezuela.

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Ms Julia Goos

Julia Goos completed her law studies at Humboldt University of Berlin with the First State Examination at the end of 2020. During her studies, she gained extensive experience abroad, including a one-year stay at Queen Mary University of London and University of Sydney. Julia participated in the Vis (East) Moot in its 24th/14th season in 2016/2017, and coached the Humboldt University team last year for the 28th/18th Vis (East) Moot. She has gained a wealth of practical experience over the course of her five years as a student assistant at the European Law School, as well as during numerous internships at international law firms and in the European Policy Department of the Federal Ministry of Finance. She is currently working as a research assistant at the European Law School at the chair of Prof. Dr. Dr. Stefan Grundmann at Humboldt University and is pursuing her doctorate in civil law. In her doctoral studies she is supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation as a PhD student.

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Ms Muskaan Gopal

Muskaan Gopal is an advocate practicing in the High Courts of India and is well versed in International Commercial Laws. She has experience in arbitration having worked with firms that specialize in this field. She has participated in the 27th and 28th Willem C. Vis Moot and in the 18th Willem C. Vis East Moot as well and her team was a sixteenth finalist in Vis East. She has been a part of multiple research projects in partnership with publishing houses like Thomson Reuters and Lexis Nexis which deal with International Arbitration across multiple jurisdictions.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Dr Kevin Gray

I am a Canadian lawyer who regularly teaches public international law and legal theory. I was previously counsel for the Ministry of the Attorney General - Government of Ontario and have published widely in international law. I am working with Prof. George Bermann at Columbia on a research project on national courts' resistance to international arbitration and am a JSD candidate in international arbitration.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Ms Gerli Helene Gritsenko

I participated at the Willem C. Vis Moot in 2018/2019 and I have been one of the coaches for the University of Tartu’s team since then. I graduated from the University of Tartu in 2020 and I’m working as an attorney-at-law at one of the biggest law firms in Estonia. As an associate with the firm’s Dispute Resolution and Risk Management practice, one of my focuses is on international arbitration. I also took part in the Arbitration Academy in Paris in 2019.

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Mr Martin Gronemann

Martin Gronemann studied law from 2013 until 2020 at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, during which he participated in the 24th Vis Moot and won the Peter Sanders Award. From August 2015 until February 2017, he worked as a student research assistant at the chair of Private Economy Law (Professor Jochen Hoffmann). He changed then to the chair for Public Law and International Public Law of Professor Markus Krajewski. After graduating, he started working as a research associate at the Chair of Public and Public International Law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in March 2020.
In his research, Martin Gronemann focuses on International Public Law, Procedural Law, and Investment Arbitration.
The Willem C. Vis Moot provides a unique experience. Through his participation as an arbitrator, Martin hopes to pass on his previous experience and fascination for the field of arbitration to the students and make many exciting contacts.

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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.

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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.

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Mr Shelby Grubbs

Shelby Grubbs works an arbitrator, mediator and special master, primarily in commercial cases. His arbitration experience also includes construction, employment and maritime matters. His experience as a mediator includes class litigations. He is a special master in a Cabrera v. Islamic Republic of Iran (USDC DC); past special master work has included United States v. Provident Life & Accident (USDC ED Tn). He was recently named Atlanta, Georgia's 2023 lawyer of the year for international commercial arbitration by Best Lawyers in America. He is co-editor of the Atlanta International Arbitration Society ("AtlAS") Desk Book (AtlAS 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022) and edited International Civil Procedure (Kluwer 2003). He practiced litigation and dispute resolution law at Miller & Martin for 24 years. From 2015 through 2017, he was a non-tenure track faculty member at the Georgia State University College of Law. He has served as adjunct professor of law at Emory University and Vanderbilt University. He has coached Vis Moot Teams from the University of Georgia and Georgia State University.

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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.

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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).

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Miss Akhila Raj Guntupalli

I am a licensed attorney from India specializing in International Commercial Arbitration and am currently pursuing an LLM in international commercial arbitration at Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University. Before my LLM, I worked as the trainee Associate at Hyderabad Arbitration Centre, where I drafted arbitration and settlement agreements and facilitated mediation cases. I have also interned under Unnam Law Firm and Chambers of Ratan K Singh, assisting in legal research and client counseling with a concentration in construction arbitration, commercial arbitration, and cross-border arbitration.
Along with my practical experience, I am an Accredited Mediation Advocate by SCMA, London, an Associate with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), and an Associate of Asian Institute for Alternative Dispute Resolution. I’ve trained with Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI) on Negotiation and Mediation Tactics. I have taken International commercial litigation and arbitration certification course from the London School of Economics (LSE) and was selected as one of the youngest members of the Private International law program by The Hague Academy of International law. Finally, I have completed a certificate course by Leiden University on International commercial arbitration. I am writing the New York Bar Exam in July 2022.

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Dr Peng Guo

Dr. Peng Guo, Lecturer in Law at RMIT University. At RMIT, Dr. Guo teaches Contract Law and Commercial Law to LLB and JD students. Prior to joining RMIT, he worked at UNSW Law School, Melbourne Law School, La Trobe Law School, and Deakin Law School. Also, he has held visiting positions at different universities, including Warwick University, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Osnabrück He has received scholarships awarded by renowned research institutions and international organisations, including the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, and the European Union. His research interests lie in the international sale of goods, particularly the CISG, international commercial arbitration, and comparative contract law. He has published articles on the CISG, the UNIDROIT Principles, and international arbitration. His monograph on good faith and hardship under the CISG and the UNIDROIT Principles has been published by Springer in 2021. He has acted as an arbitrator for the Alfred Deakin International Commercial Arbitration Moot.

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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.

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Mr Kishan Gupta

I am a Mumbai based lawyer and work with the dispute resolution team of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. Previously, I have acted as an arbitrator in various national and international moot court competitions such as the NLS Trilegal International Arbitration Moot and the FDI South Asia and Global Investment Arbitration Moot.

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Mr Manavendra Gupta

I am an Associate at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., a tier-1 law firm in India. For over two years now, I have worked on international and domestic commercial arbitrations involving construction and infrastructure projects of national importance as well as litigated civil and commercial matters before higher courts and the Supreme Court of India. I have primarily dealt with matters in the energy sector. I have also developed and co-taught a unique elective course at Jindal Global Law School, India titled The Practical Aspects of Arbitration.

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Mr Yaman Gürsel

Yaman Gürsel is a fully-qualified lawyer in Turkey, registered with Istanbul Bar Association since 2016. Later, he was admitted to the University of Fribourg with a scholarship to pursue LL.M. in International Business Law, specializing in international commercial arbitration and contract law compared. Following his graduation in 2018, he started doing his Ph.D. in private law at the University of Fribourg. His dissertation is based on a comparative analysis regarding the creation and implementation of non-possessory secured transactions. Currently, he is working as a junior associate at Brunner Arbitration LLC in Bern.

During his Bachelor of Laws, Yaman participated in the Willem C. VIS International Commercial Arbitration Moot (2014-2015) and has been coaching the VIS moot Team of Istanbul Bilgi University (2020-present).

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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.

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Mr Erlend Haaskjold

Erlend Haaskjold is one of the leading arbitrators in Scandinavia. He is Partner and Head of International Arbitration at Schjødt Law Firm in Oslo. He has acted as arbitrator in a number of commercial and international disputes, and he regularly appears as advocate in all arbitral fora, before international tribunals, and in the domestic Norwegian courts. He was elevated to the rank of Senior Counsel in 2003. He has been a visiting lecturer in commercial law at the University of Oslo, and he has authored some of the leading texts on the law of contract in Norway, frequently cited by the Supreme Court. He is a Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

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Mr Jonas Habert

I am a French qualified lawyer. I have trained and qualified in France with the Paris based arbitration boutique Betto Seraglini which I joined after undertaking the University Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne Master’s degree in “Droit International Privé et du Commerce International”. After two years at Betto Seraglini, I undertook a six months secondment at Enyo Law LLP in London. Shortly thereafter, I joined Enyo Law's Arbitration Team as an associate. At Betto Seraglini and Enyo Law I have had the opportunity to work on different arbitration cases both as counsel and arbitrator (assisting Partners’ appointed as arbitrators). I set out below a sample of the cases I worked on:
- I acted for a leading French European company of the defence industry in an international commercial arbitration case against its major provider for breach of contract. I was given the opportunity entirely to draft the request.
- I assisted an arbitrator in an ICC arbitration between Chinese and Brazilian companies related to a construction dispute.

I am a member of several arbitration groups such as YIAG, ICC YAF, HKIAC and Young ICCA.

In my spare time, I fight competitively in muay thai and partake into cooking competitions.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Ms Rafaela Haid

Rafaela HAID is pursuing a tri-national master's degree at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, the University of Basel and the Université de Strasbourg.

In 2019/2020, Rafaela participated in the 27th Willem C. Vis Moot and the 17th Vis East Moot for the University of Freiburg. Her team received awards and honourable mentions in five of eight categories in both Hong Kong and Vienna. Since then, she has been keen on supporting other teams as a remote Moot Academy coach. Last year, she took on the role of Pre-Moot Director and organised the Moot Academy Pre-Moot for teams from around the world.

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Mrs Rime Hamdouchi

Young legal counsel in business law and former vismoot mootie and coach. Passionate about international commercial arbitration.

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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.

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Mr Calvin Hamilton

Calvin is a Chartered Arbitrator (CIArb) with more than 30 years’ experience. He has sat as arbitrator under ICC, ICDR, LCIA, Madrid Court of Arbitration, Zurich Chamber of Commerce, Hungarian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and UNCITRAL Rules in a variety of seats located in the Caribbean, Latin America, USA, Africa and Europe. Calvin is a Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.
His expertise lies in Investor State and Commercial disputes arising from administrative and public law, retail and consumer, energy and natural resources, mergers & acquisitions, cross-border transactions including distribution, sale of goods, agency, franchise and transfer agreements, and acquisition of assets and/or shares.
His primary focus is on the Caribbean, Latin America, London, Continental Europe and US. Calvin’s experience includes common law and civil law which he developed in his practice in Spain, the Commonwealth Caribbean, including Guyana and Barbados, and the US.
Calvin is an executive member of the Caribbean Branch of CIArb and is the Chair of the Barbados Chapter. He was a member of a task force commissioned by CARICOM to produce a Draft Arbitration Bill and is the co-chair of the recently established ITA Americas Initiative Caribbean Task Force.
He holds Guyanese and Spanish nationalities.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Mr Wulf Gordian Hauser

Wulf G. Hauser attended the Law School of the University of Vienna and Georgetown University. He is admitted to the bar in the State of New York, in the District of Columbia, Austria and Liechtenstein. He practiced law for four years in Washington D.C., before he established his own law firm in Vienna. His main areas of practice are international commercial arbitration, M&A, banking and corporate finance.

Wulf Gordian Hauser has served as chairman of the arbitral tribunal, sole arbitrator, party appointed arbitrator or counsel for a party in over 100 arbitrations before the ICC, VIAC and LCIA. He is a member of the ICC Court of International Arbitration, LCIA, Austrian National Committee of the ICC, VIAC and of the committee on legislative policy of the Austrian Federation of Industry.

He has published a number of articles on arbitration, most recently the commentary on Art. 36 of the VIAC Rules 2013 in the treatise published by VIAC.

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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.

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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)

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Mr Lauri Heiskanen

I am a Finnish Licenced Legal Counsel (LL.M.). I graduated from the Univerity of Turku in 2020. Currently, I work at a Finnish boutique law firm specializing in commercial arbitration and litigation.

I took part in the Willem C. Vis Moot as part of the University of Turku's team in 2019-2020 and I have coached the team twice.

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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.

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Mr Patrick J Höeffner

Litigator specializing in intellectual property and contract disputes; registered patent attorney; electrical engineer.

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Mr Julius Hoffmann

Me Cameron Hogg-Tisshaw

Cameron Hogg-Tisshaw works as a commercial lawyer in Montreal Quebec. He is a member in good standing of the Quebec Bar as well as the New York Bar.

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Mr Simon Hohler

Education:
MLaw - Universities of Lucerne and Neuchatel, Switzerland (2008); Admission to the Bar in Switzerland (2011); LL.M. in International Business Regulation, Litigation and Arbitration - New York University, School of Law, USA. (2014); Arbitration Practitioner (ArbP) - Swiss Arbitration Academy (2015)

Professional Experience:
Foreign Intern with Alston & Bird LLP in New York, USA (2009); Trainee with WalderWyss Ltd. in Zurich, Switzerland (2009-2010); Trainee with the Cantonal Court of the Canton of Zug, Switzerland (2010-2011); Associate with Blum&Grob Attorneys at Law Ltd. in Zurich, Switzerland (2012 - 2016); Associate with THOUVENIN in Zurich, Switzerland (2016 - now)

Main Practice Areas:
Arbitration and Litigation, Debt Collection and Bankruptcy Proceedings, White Collar.

Working Languages:
German, English, French.

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Mr Seyed Ali Hosseini Balajadeh

Ali is an LL.M. student at the Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran. he completed a bachelor of law at Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran. His chief interests are commercial and investment arbitration, and international trade. he has participated in the FDI Moot 2020 as a team member (1/16 Final). Furthermore, he has served as an arbitrator in FDI Moot 2021 and 4th TRAC VIS Pre-Moo.

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Ms Zahra Hosseinpour

Zahra Hosseinpour is a Legal Counsel at Tehran Regional Arbitration Centre (TRAC), also acting as Tribunal Assistant in a number of ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings, both domestic and international. She is experienced in drafting and reviewing arbitral awards, construction and sales contracts. She holds an LL.M. in International Law.

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Mr Rolando Hoyt

Partner at Mateos Hoyt + Asociados (2018). Lawyer graduated ITESM (2016). Master in Alternative Dispute Resolutions (2018). Professor at ITESM (2018). ICC Member (2019). ICCA Member (2018).

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Ms Vyara Hristova

Vyara Hristova has obtained her Masters in Law (2020) at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria. During her studies, she became involved in moot courts first as a oralist in Telders International Moot Court (2019), ranking in the Top 20 Best Oralists. After that, she participated in Willem C. Vis Moot for the last two consecutive years (2020-2021). In the 27th edition, the Sofia University team reached Top 16 in the elimination rounds. In the 28th edition, the team received Honourable Mention for Claimant's Memorandum. During her studies, she worked in a law firm as a paralegal (2017-2020), focusing on corporate and contract law. Currently, she works as a Tax Consultant in leading Bulgarian law firm, dealing mainly with Transfer Pricing, international and corporate tax and tax procedures before tax authorities and courts.

Mr Wolfgang Huber

Mrs Yesra-Cecile Hüls

Yesra-Cecile is a lawyer at Clyde & Co Europe LLP. She is an experienced litigator and expert in insurance law.

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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.

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Mrs Anna Iacovou Stylianou

Anna Iacovou Stylianou has more than 20 years experience as dispute resolver. She has been involved in a
wide range of disputes such as construction, commerce, finance, entertainment,
real estate, marine and oil and gas disputes. She has been involved in several
arbitrations, mediations, adjudications and expert witness determinations.
Anna is a Chartered Arbitrator(C.ARB), Chartered Surveyor ( MRICS)
and CEDR Accredited Mediator since 2007, has got a diploma
in Negotiation and an LLM in International Dispute Resolution from
Queen Mary University. She is a member of important local and international
arbitration and mediation committees and panels.

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PhD Petrica Iamandi

Construction Contract Law - Breach of Contracts, Delay Analyses, Damages, Liabilities etc.

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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.

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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.

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Ms Anna Isfort

Anna is a PHD candidate in the field of commercial arbitration and a research assistant at the Noerr arbitration department in Berlin. She was an intern at the ICC Arbitration Court in Paris after graduating from Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. She has been a Mootie and Coach for the Bucerius Vis Moot team and participated as an arbitrator in the past years.

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Ms Eylem Işık

Eylem Işık graduated from Galatasaray University Faculty of Law in 2020. She is currently pursuing her master’s in law (LL.M.) studies on Private Law at Galatasaray University, Institute of Social Sciences. She was admitted in 2021 to İstanbul Bar. She is an associate at Altay Law Office.

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Mr Shehabeldine Ismail

Shehabeldine is an international dispute resolution lawyer with LLB from Ain Shams University, diploma in French Legal Studies from University of Lyon (FDV3 Lyon), and Master's degree in International and European Commercial Law from University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (IDAI). In June 2016, he joined the dispute resolution department with a very good opportunity to expand my experience focusing on international commercial arbitration, post arbitration proceedings and international civil and commercial proceedings, covering a wide range of industries (i.e. construction, hospitality management, shareholders agreement, JVs, international sale of goods, franchise and distribution agreements) and under several procedural systems (ICC, SAC, CRCICA, Gafta, UNCITRAL, and other Ad hoc Arbitrations) with practical knowledge to work with EU Law and Regulations, French law, English law, Egyptian Law, UAE Law and some other MENA domestic laws).

Ms Victoria Ivasechko

Victoria Ivasechko is a dispute resolution practitioner qualified in Ukraine. She focuses on international investment arbitration, international commercial arbitration, cross-border and domestic litigation, as well as enforcement proceedings. Victoria specialises in energy and natural resources, construction, infrastructure, financial institutions, agribusiness, TMT, and FMCG.

Victoria has been involved in arbitration proceedings under VIAC, ICC, LCIA, SCC, CAM, NAI, ICAC at the UCCI, ICSID, and UNCITRAL arbitration rules. She also acts for clients before Ukrainian and foreign courts of all levels and specialisations, including commercial, corporate, administrative and labour disputes, insolvency proceedings, criminal proceedings, as well as cases on setting aside, recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards and foreign court decisions.

Victoria is a VIAC Ambassador for Ukraine, a board member of the International Law Committee at the Ukrainian Bar Association, and a regional representative of the Moot Alumni Association. She also coaches the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University Vis Moot team and arbitrates various arbitration-related moot court competitions.

Victoria is included in the 12th Edition of The Best Lawyers in Ukraine (2022) for her work in Arbitration and Mediation.

Victoria has nearly 11 years of experience in legal practice, with almost 8 in leading Ukrainian and international law firms.

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Mr Eric Ives

Eric Ives is an Associate in the International Arbitration Group at White & Case LLP. His practice focuses on investment and commercial arbitration and complex commercial disputes. He first joined the Columbia Law School Willem C. Vis Moot team in 2016 as a 1L on the briefs in the 24th Moot, helping his team win the Eric E. Bergsten Prize for Claimant's Memorial that year. He then competed in the oral rounds in the 25th Moot as a 2L where his team advanced to the Round of 8 and he earned an Honorable Mention for his oral advocacy. He remains an avid supporter of the Moot and looks forward to the Problem each year.

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Ms Shobana Iyer

Shobana is a practicing barrister with over 20 years of commercial and corporate experience in dispute resolution and compliance. She specialises in complex commercial cases frequently involving issues in corporate, intellectual property (IP), technology and data protection law and leads the AI Group for the Bar Council of England and Wales. She also sits as arbitrator and is on the European Commission's List of Chairpersons for Arbitrations for EU trade agreements with third countries. She has experience in a variety of industry sectors including renewable energy, digital marketing, financial, retail, sports, creative (including film, TV & Games), arts and TMT (technology, media and telecommunications) sectors. Colleagues and clients value her exceptional combination of intellect, pragmatism, efficiency, creativity and resilience as well as her high emotional intelligence.
Shobana sits on numerous committees including the CIArb London Branch, and is Co-ViceChair of the Legal Services Committee (& IT Panel Member, and was the Chair of the Civil Remote Hearings Group during the COVID Pandemic) for the Bar Council of England & Wales and is regular a visiting lecturer at King College London and Brunel University.

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Miss Maria Laura Izzo

I am an Italian qualified lawyer working in international litigation and arbitration. I have more than 4 years of working experience spent between Italy, Sweden and UK. During my career I acted on cross-border and commercially sensitive cases within the TMT, energy and construction sectors.
I have acquired deep knowledge of arbitral proceedings held under the LCIA, UNCITRAL, SCC Rules and the Rules of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration, until the stages of recognition and enforcement of the awards at the Italian Court of Appeal.
I hold a Degree in Law, an LL.M in international business and company law and an LL.M in international commercial arbitration. I publish articles focused on International Dispute Resolution and I am an active member of Young ICCA, YIAG, YAF,Young ICSID and AIA ArbIt Under 40.

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Ms Florence Jaeger

Florence Jaeger is a Swiss qualified lawyer working at Homburger AG, an international commercial law firm based in Zurich, Switzerland. She specialises in domestic and international litigation as well as international commercial arbitration with a focus on contract law, post M&A and construction disputes. She has gained her work experience in international commercial law firms in Basel, Zurich and London. She advises and represents individuals and entities at all stages of the dispute resolution process. Previously, Florence Jaeger had been working as a teaching and research assistant at the chair of Prof. Ingeborg Schwenzer at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and as a guest researcher at Columbia Law School, NY, USA, sponsored by Prof. George Bermann.

Florence Jaeger is also a Mootie with her heart and soul: She was a member of the team of the University of Basel in 2010/11, which won i.a. the 1st place for the respondent's brief. She also coached the team of Basel in 2013/14, which advanced in Hong Kong to the quarter finals and won 3rd place for the claimant's brief. Ever since she is reading briefs and sitting as an arbitrator during the Vis Moot season.

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Ms Shreya Jain

I am a Senior Associate in the international arbitration team at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Mumbai. I have studied, qualified and worked in two jurisdictions (India and New York). My practice primarily focusses on international commercial and investment treaty arbitration, under a variety of institutional rules such as SIAC, LCIA, ICC, PCA (UNCITRAL), ICSID and ICDR. I hold an undergraduate law degree from National Law School of India University, where my team became only the second Indian team to win the World Championship Round of the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court 2013. I also hold an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, where I specialised in courses involving international commercial arbitration, investment treaty law, and international trade law.

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Mr Najmiddin Jamoliddinov

Najmiddin Jamoliddinov is an associate at Leges Advokat law firm (Uzbekistan) specializing in commercial, corporate, trade, and investment law matters. Graduated from Tashkent State University of Law. LL.M. degree candidate in corporate and commercial law at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Mr. Jamoliddinov has six years of experience in the Vis Moot as a participant, coach, and arbitrator.

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Ms Jamyle Jardim

Lawyer registered at the Brazilian Bar Association. Expertise in the areas of Business, Civil and Consumer Law. Post-graduate student in Business Law and in Contracts and Civil Liability. Member of the Brazilian Bar Association Arbitration Committee. Advisory member of the Corporate Law Committee of the Brazilian Bar Association. Participant in the course "Introduction to Law and Contemporary Legal Debates" offered by Harvard University Summer School. Founder of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot's team from the Federal University of Rondonia. Participant in the Center for Private Law Studies of the Liga Acadêmica de Ciências Jurídicas de Rondônia. Proficiency in English and Spanish.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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Mr Marek Jezewski

Partner in Kochański & Partners, PhD, attorney at law.

He specializes in international arbitration, particularly investment and commercial arbitration. At Kochański & Partners he is responsible for the arbitration practice and the resolution of complex business disputes.

He has given lectures on International Economic Law, International Investment Law and EU Economic Law at Polish and foreign universities. He is the author of the leading Polish monograph on international investment arbitration (“Międzynarodowe prawo inwestycyjne”). Marek is also the author of numerous publications, published both in Poland and abroad. For several years he represented Poland in the work of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), participating in work, inter alia, on the rules of transparency in international investment arbitration. In 2011, Marek was nominated as the Commission’s Vice-Chairman.

Marek represents clients in investment arbitration disputes under different sets of rules, including ICSID, UNCITRAL, SCC, ICC, Swiss Rules of International Arbitration and others. He also has an ever-growing reputation as an arbitrator, having served as the presiding arbitrator or co-arbitrator in more than 10 arbitration cases.

Recommendations: Legal 500 EMEA ranking, Chambers & Partners.

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Mr Raghav Jha

Practising lawyer in India, enrolled with Bar Council of India.
I have 4 years of experience in handling commercial disputes and arbitration.
Completed LL.M. in commercial dispute resolution at University of East Anglia (UEA) in the year 2022.
Was a coach for UEA Vis Moot Team 2022 {United Kingdom}
Arbitrator in Willem C Vis Moot 29th edition.

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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 J. Brian Johns

I am an attorney licensed in the United States of America. Before my current position as a judicial clerk for the United States Federal Courts, I was a Director for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution. In 2013, I earned an LL.M. in International Legal Studies, with specializations in International Arbitration, International Business Law and International Organizations. I have been involved with the Vis Moot as a participant, coach, and practice moot organizer since 2012.

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Mr Nick Jones

I have been a Partner at Enyo Law LLP, a specialist disputes firm, for six years. In my 16 years of practice, I have worked on many commercial arbitrations predominantly in the energy and infrastructure sector.